To minimize the impact of climate change and enable quicker recovery following extreme weather events, New York City Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg seeks to amend construction codes of hospitals and healthcare facilities in the city.

Average Medicare spending per patient in the last two years of life rose 15 percent from $60,694 to $69,947 between 2007 and 2010, according to a June 12 brief published by the Dartmouth Atlas Project. Researchers examined the last two years of Medicare claims records of 1,107,702 Medicare patients who died in 2010, both among 306 hospital referral regions and among more than 2,400 hospitals.

(Skokie, Ill. – June 12, 2013) Sg2, the leader in health care strategic analytics and intelligence, announced today a new breed of ambulatory market data tools designed to provide a complete and comprehensive view of ambulatory health care service volumes and share in the private payer market.

MELBOURNE, Fla. & WASHINGTON -- Harris Corporation (NYSE:HRS), an international communications and international technology company, has been selected to help improve the Veterans Benefits Administration’s (VBA) Enterprise Data Warehouse, the primary source for veterans’ benefits data and information.

The Parkland Center for Clinical Innovation (PCCI), a Texas-based research and development corporation specializing in clinical prediction and surveillance models, received a $172,000 boost from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, according to a June 10 press release.

Philadelphia, PA, June 06, 2013 -- Pharmaceutical companies now have access to a better supply of data through EMRs, and HIEs, as well as more Government sponsored Big Data initiatives than ever before. The downside is that with so much information, many companies are finding it difficult to leverage all of the information available to them.

The public is welcome to submit suggestions to new quality measures to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) for inclusion in the Physician Quality Reporting System program in coming years.

The recent release of federal data doesn't go far enough, according to Senators Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), and Ron Wyden (D-Ore.). They are calling for more action to make Medicare claims data fully transparent.