Highlights in health IT from TEDMED to the Office of National Coordinator of Health IT.

The Dartmouth Atlas Project has documented glaring variations in how medical resources are distributed and used in the United States for more than 20 years.

The American Medical Association (AMA) has again protested the looming Oct. 1, 2014, compliance date for ICD-10.

As the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) launches a new website devoted to health insurance exchange, a new report from the General Accountability Office (GAO) assesses the readiness of federally facilitated health insurance exchanges to be operational by Oct. 1 to support open enrollment for insurance coverage that starts in January 2014.

Signaling its drive to ready Americans for open enrollment of health insurance exchanges in October, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) launched the consumer website, HealthCare.gov, and consumer call center to help individuals select the most appropriate coverage, according to a June 24 announcement. The agency stressed that it is on target for the fall enrollment, with coverage expected to begin in 2014.

BOSTON, June 24, 2013 -- Today at the Drug Information Association's 2013 Annual Meeting, Deloitte and Intermountain Healthcare announce the launch of OutcomesMiner, an analytics tool designed to give researchers, pharmaceutical and medical device companies the data-driven insight needed to conduct comparative effectiveness research and bring new therapies to market more rapidly.

A bipartisan bill in the Senate is calling for greater transparency in the Medicare claims data program.

The Healthcare Innovation and Marketplace Technologies Act, reintroduced by Rep. Mike Honda (D-Calif.) on June 13, calls for the establishment of an Office of Wireless Health in the FDA. The bill was first introduced last December but did not progress beyond the committee level.