Redwood Shores, Calif. – February 25, 2015 - Healthcare organizations are increasingly focused on streamlining data to meet a multitude of challenges, from regulatory compliance and reimbursement management to delivering quality care to their patients across the care continuum.

A trade group representing rehabilitation hospitals is hoping to avoid upcoming payment cuts, The Hill reports.

Nearly three-quarters of healthcare executives perform data analytics, Health Data Management reports.

Humana and Aetna expect their Medicare Advantage funding to decrease in 2016, the Wall Street Journal reports.

Hospitals and states will receive nearly $200 million in funds from the Department of Health and Human Services to prepare for and respond to the Ebola epidemic.

The Department of Health and Human Services revealed that health plans without hospital benefits do not qualify as satisfying the minimum value requirement, Kaiser Health News reports.

Boston, Massachusetts, February 17, 2015 – Press Ganey announced today it has signed a multi-year agreement with Boston Children’s Hospital, a leading pediatric hospital, to capture and assess patient and family experience data through the newly created Child Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (Child HCAHPS) hospital survey.

CMS is proposing to decrease payments per beneficiary to Medicare Advantage organizations in 2016 by an average of 0.95 percent.