Delivering the opening keynote address at the HIMSS Annual Conference & Exhibition, Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia M. Burwell announced an agreement on core commitments made by top companies and healthcare systems.

Adding individualized preventative care programs as part of primary care management can reduce overall healthcare costs and improve patient wellness, according to results of a study published in Population Health Management.

Rural U.S. hospitals welcome around half a million babies into the world each year. The growing challenge is keeping the doors open to the setting in which they’re optimally received—labor and delivery units.

UPMC and medCPU have entered into a strategic partnership in which UPMC will take a majority interest in the technology innovator, become a customer of medCPU’s real-time decision support solutions and co-develop additional products with the goal of improving patient outcomes.

Surescripts has activated its National Record Locator Service, which gives providers an effective way to obtain a more complete view of a patient’s health history.

Radiology continues to go through significant changes in 2016. Shawn Griffin, MD, chief quality and informatics officer of the Houston-based Memorial Hermann Physician Network (MHMD), discussed the profession’s transition from volume- to value-based care earlier today at the HIMSS Annual Conference in Las Vegas. 

Health IT purchases primarily are driven by population health and patient engagement, according to a report from peer60.

Carequality, an initiative of The Sequoia Project, announced five new adopters of the Carequality Interoperability Framework.