The American Enterprise Institute (AEI) held a panel discussion earlier this month, discussing medical malpractice reform along with a variety of other topics. 

Craig D. Richardville, MBA, FACHE, FHIMSS, senior vice president and CIO at Carolinas HealthCare System, has been named the 2015 John E. Gall, Jr. CIO of the Year.

There’s been increasing focus on the quality of care and HIMSS has taken the initiative to help providers by launching an international quality measurement for the value of health IT.

Maybe you’re familiar with a little effort called ICD-10 that has been the subject of delays, debate, regulations, contingencies and more for several years now.

Charles Sorenson, MD, the urologic cancer surgeon who has been an executive at Intermountain Healthcare for 18 years and the institution’s CEO since early 2009, will retire the helm in Salt Lake City next October.

Healthcare provider Kaiser Permanente has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Seattle-based Group Health Cooperative, the companies announced today. Once the deal is final, Kaiser Permanente will gain approximately 590,000 new members.

The Senate voted 90-10 to repeal Obamacare’s “Cadillac tax” on high-cost health plans, a rare instance of bipartisanship around the contentious healthcare law. 

Healthcare spending in the U.S. increased 5.3 percent in 2014 to $3 trillion or $9,523 per person, while 17.5 percent of the country’s gross domestic product (GDP) was devoted to healthcare spending last year.