Care Management Technologies (CMT), a data-driven population health analytics company that specializes in behavioral health, today announced its newest client, Alliance Behavioral Healthcare.

With just over a month to go until the Oct. 1 ICD-10 deadline, the American Hospital Association has released a checklist of key steps that hospitals should take to ensure a successful transition.

The global market for natural language processing is projected to reach $2.67 billion by 2020, according to a MarketsandMarkets report. 

Medicare has long required a three-day hospital stay before it will pick up the tab for a senior to move into a skilled nursing facility. A new data crunch shows that waiving this prerequisite shortens costly and risky hospital stays—without driving up admissions to skilled nursing facilities or lengthening stays therein.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Service is ramping up its Bundled Payment for Care Improvement Initiative with the addition of hundreds of providers.

In response to its charge to provide a set of recommendations regarding clinical quality measurement (CQM) provisions in Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services payment rules, the Health IT Policy Committee’s Quality Measurement Task Force focused on three areas.

Hospitals, retirement homes and makers of medical devices are among the healthcare organizations and businesses that may now consider calling Capital One, long known primarily as a credit-card company, when they want to borrow big bucks.

BOSTON—“Inevitably, we complain about all the things that haven’t gone as well as we’d like but the real opportunity is the optimism of what we’ve been able to do,” said Jonathan Perlin, MD, PhD, MSHA, CMO and president of clinical services for HCA Healthcare, speaking at the AMIA’s iHealth 2015 Conference on the data dividend.