The FCC has tapped Matthew Quinn, MBA, to serve as the agency’s director of healthcare initiatives, according to an announcement.

The HIT Policy Committee has added two new workgroups to its roster. The FDASIA workgroup will focus on identifying key considerations to improve patient safety and promote innovation in health IT, and the ACO workgroup will identify high priority areas where the use of health IT can support accountable care models.

The Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange (WEDI) announced the completion of its 2013 WEDI Report roadmap and disclosed the final list of executive steering committee members and advisors, according to a press announcement.

A new prize series aims to help healthcare organizations use big data more effectively to drive improvements.

Several representatives of consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton addressed issues tied to the power of data to transform healthcare.

The U.S. healthcare workforce is unprepared to handle the 14 million people soon entering the system when coverage is provided by the Affordable Care Act in 2014, according to an Association of Academic Health Centers (AAHC) report.

WASHINGTON, April 16, 2013 -- Today, the Bipartisan Policy Center (BPC), Heritage Provider Network (HPN), and The Advisory Board Company launched the Care Transformation Prize Series , a national contest to address the most daunting data problems U.S. health care organizations face as they implement new delivery system and payment reforms.

The proposed 2014 budget for the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) includes $1 million from a new tax on health IT vendors, but the plan calls for increasing revenue from the tax in coming years if the tax is enacted.