The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has awarded 16 two-year Special Innovation Projects (SIPs) to 10 regional Quality Innovation Network-Quality Improvement Organizations.  

Patients who have been hospitalized in the last 90 days and then have elective outpatient surgery are much more likely to be readmitted to the hospital within 30 days of undergoing that surgery, according to a recent study by researchers from Loyola University.

Paul Tang, MD, MS, vice chair of the Health IT Policy Committee, offered up details about the Interoperability Task Force’s report to Congress on the clinical, technical, organizational and financial barriers to interoperability. 

Jim Busch, MD, Chattanooga, Tenn.-based radiology and president of Diagnostic Radiology Consultants (DRC), is officially the first person in the world to have a 10-gigabit-per-second Internet connection installed in their home.

The Personal Connected Health Alliance (PCHA) presented Walgreens with its first Digital Health Innovation Award for being the first retail pharmacy to launch mobile telemedicine strategies.  

BOSTON—With studies indicating that only 55 percent of patients receive the recommended care, “there are big opportunities for improvement," said David Bates, MD, MSc, chief innovation officer at Brigham & Women’s Medical Center in Boston, speaking at the Big Data & Healthcare Analytics Forum.

Physicians with higher average hospital charges and greater resource use had a reduced risk of incurring a malpractice claim, according to an analysis of admissions to acute care hospitals in Florida between 2000 and 2009.

Tech startups are seeking permission from federal regulators to market their video games as medical therapies that can treat mental health conditions including depression, anxiety and autism.