A report this month sponsored by health IT services company MedSynergies found 70 percent of responding U.S. hospitals and health systems plan to employ more physicians in the next 12 to 36 months.

Communications and consulting firm Mercom Capital Group has released health IT funding and merger and acquisition activity for the third quarter, noting a greater quarter with $207 million in venture capital funding.

A study by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) concluded that cloud computing has both positive and negative information security implications for federal agencies.

While state revenues slowly rise from the declines of 2009 and 2010, there remain budget shortfalls sizeable enough to motivate states to change, consolidate and reduce, according to a survey of CIOs from the National Association of State Chief Information Officers (NASCIO).

A new set of strategies was released in a report by the Commonwealth Fund Commission on a high-performance health system to help improve how the U.S. healthcare system serves the uninsured, low-income or members of racial and ethnic minority groups.

Nearly 20.5 million people with Medicare coverage reviewed their health status at a free annual wellness visit or received other preventive services with no deductible or cost sharing this year, according to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).

At the request of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), the Measures Application Partnership (MAP) released its first two reports, each pointing to opportunities for more coordinated approaches to making healthcare safer and enhancing clinician performance.

Despite recent efforts to reduce readmission rates in the U.S., results from a report by the Dartmouth Atlas Project showed a large regional variation in 30-day readmission rates, particularly for Medicare beneficiaries post-acute care. The average readmission rate in the U.S. currently stand at 16.1 percent, which shows that more needs to be done to close gaps in care. To help get a handle on readmissions, providers from Spectrum Health have developed cardiac care solutions for patients to try and reduce heart failure readmissions.