The final version of the policy principles governing data security efforts within President Barack Obama’s Precision Medicine Initiative (PMI) has been released. 

CMS has released a request for proposals for hospital improvement plans with the goal of cutting 30-day hospital readmissions by 12 percent and reducing patient harm by 20 percent.

The U.S. Department of Justice has joined a five-year-old whistleblower lawsuit against Ontario, Calif.-based Prime Healthcare Services, alleging the hospital chain pressured physicians to unnecessarily admit patients.

Accountable care organizations (ACOs) are willing to leave the Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP) unless CMS changes course and allows them to be eligible for MARCA’s advanced alternative payment models (APMs) system.

Amsterdam, the Netherlands and Tampere, Finland – Royal Philips (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHIA) today announced that it has signed a strategic partnership agreement with Heart Hospital in Tampere, Finland, to jointly innovate in cardiac care and further reinforce Heart Hospital as a European center of excellence for heart treatment. The multi-year agreement has a value of approximately EUR 19 million, and is the first strategic partnership awarded to Philips in Finland and the third in the Nordic region. 

  SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Board of Directors of McKesson Corporation (NYSE:MCK) today declared a regular dividend of twenty-eight cents per share on Common Stock. The dividend will be payable on July 1, 2016, to stockholders of record on June 6, 2016.  

Several data security experts testified before a congressional panel in favor of a House proposal to elevate HHS’s chief information security officer (CISO) to a separate office, while one expressed concerns about making the office a presidential appointment.

Telehealth is being implemented in many health systems across the United States, but mainly for primary care to those in rural areas. Well, why not mental care?