In remarks at his final Health IT Policy Committee meeting as national coordinator for health IT, Farzad Mostashari, MD, ScM, said that the health IT capabilities required through Meaningful Use and EHR certification ultimately drive new payment systems that place value over volume.

LOUISVILLE, Ky., Sept. 4, 2013--ZirMed®, a leading health information connectivity and management solutions company, today announced a partnership with EHR Integration Services, an innovative group of consultants that help transform complex data integration issues into clinical and operational workflow improvements, to provide Allscripts™ and GE Healthcare™ customers with seamless integration into ZirMed's revenue cycle management, clinical communications and analytics solutions.

In response to numerous commenters who said a one-hour notification rule for privacy and security incidents is impractical and unworkable, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, in a final rule setting standards for health plans operating in state health insurance exchanges, dropped the proposed requirement.

The Southeast Michigan Beacon Community (SEMBC) announced that it is gaining some traction in achieving its target measures.As part of its clinical transformation efforts, the Beacon community—which encompasses 46 SEMBC-affiliated private practice and federally qualified health center sites—said it has met six of seven target measures in the care of patients with type 2 diabetes.

Atlanta, Georgia, August 28, 2013 -- Wellcentive, a provider of innovative population health management and data analytics solutions, has expanded its industry reach by partnering with Visualutions, a nationwide provider of managed healthcare IT and data liquidity services. Visualutions will resell Wellcentive’s Advance™ to Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs), which are grant-supported, community-based organizations that provide comprehensive primary and preventive care to persons regardless of their ability to pay.

Torrance, CA, September 03, 2013 -- e2o Health is the only EHR services organization that has been chosen as the service partner by all three of the California regional extension centers. The Meaningful Use Experts website features five meaningful use support services that every ambulatory clinic needs in order to achieve Meaningful Use in 2013, and Meaningful Use Stage 2 for 2014 and beyond.

Innovation is the king of buzzwords in healthcare today. And there’s no shortage of books covering the various aspects of innovation in our space. Clinical Innovation + Technology (there’s that word again) spoke with the authors of several books for more on what their readers can gain from their works. 

Cancer is on pace to be the no. 1 killer disease worldwide within the next 15 years, and already has overtaken heart disease in the United Kingdom, among other countries. Fortunately, innovative technologies in informatics and IT promise to improve cancer care, whether by bridging the gaps in standard radiology PACS for nuclear medicine or by finding ways to leverage big data for better diagnosis and monitoring.