If the Medicare program known as MIPS is to succeed at improving quality by tying said improvement to payments—all while avoiding mass cases of physician burnout—it will have to forego checkboxes that fail to distinguish between getting patients to electronically say hello and getting them to actually live more healthfully. 

Healthcare IT Consulting Group Enters Global Partnership with HIMSS to Deliver EMRAM Education to European, Middle Eastern, Asian, Australian and North American Healthcare Systems.

The Healthcare Leadership Council (HLC), a coalition of executives representing health providers, insurers, manufacturers and patient advocacy groups, has issued six recommendations it believes can be implemented today to improve healthcare in the U.S.

INDIANAPOLIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Zotec Partners (Zotec), the industry leader in radiology revenue cycle and practice management services, announces a continued revenue cycle management agreement with Toledo Radiological Associates (TRA), an Ohio-based radiology group with 34 highly specialized board-certified radiologists. In the extended four-year arrangement, TRA will continue to use Zotec’s revenue cycle management (RCM) services and analytical tools to monitor data and ignite practice growth to the year 2020.

Hearst Health and the Jefferson College of Population Health announced three finalists for its inaugural $100,000 prize to honor healthcare organizations that focus on managing and improving health.

A recent study published in Academic Medicine found that less than one third of all funding distributed by the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI), an independent organization established under the Affordable Care Act, has been implemented in primary care settings.

Kalamazoo, Michigan - February 16, 2016 - Stryker Corporation (NYSE: SYK) announced today a definitive agreement to acquire 100% of the stock of Physio-Control International, Inc. ("Physio-Control") in an all cash transaction for $1.28 billion.  Physio-Control, which is a portfolio company of Bain Capital Private Equity, develops, manufactures and markets monitors/defibrillators, automated external defibrillators (AEDs) and CPR-assist devices along with data management and support services.

A recent question-and-answer article prepared by the Associated Press and published by the Chicago Tribune (and others) examined the impact Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia’s death  could have on existing cases in 2016.