Community Health Network of Central Florida, an integrated delivery network in partnership with Parrish Medical Center, has implemented MDIs Viewpoint Analytics healthcare technology in the hopes of moving toward creating an accountable care organization (ACO).

The National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) has released new standards for its patient-centered medical home (PCMH) program. The new standards call on medical practices to be more patient-centered and reinforce federal meaningful use incentives for primary care practices to adopt health IT.

Newark Beth Israel Medical Center, a 673-bed regional care hospital based in Newark, N.J., has licensed Meta Health Technology's eCDI software application to assist and automate the clinical documentation process.

The Methodist Hospital in Houston has opened a 35,000 square-foot interactive, simulation-based surgical training center created to help practicing physicians acquire skills including image-guided therapies and surgical robotics.

More than $4 billion in 2010 was recovered and returned to the Medicare Health Insurance Trust Fund through the Obama Administrations healthcare fraud prevention and enforcement efforts, according to a report from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).

Three million Medicare beneficiaries nationwide have received prescription drug cost relief through the Patient Protection & Affordable Care Act (PPACA), according to U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius. Those beneficiaries, who fell into the drug coverage gap in 2010, have been mailed a one-time, tax-free $250 rebate check.

Change management is as critical to EMR deployment success as IT planning and execution, according to a recent survey by Accenture.

Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius has announced a new funding opportunity for grants to help states implement health insurance exchanges.