The University of Chicago Medicine and Aetna will collaborate to create an oncology medical home designed to improve the care experience for cancer patients.  

Congress has requested a Health IT Policy Committee task force to develop recommendations for addressing technical and financial barriers to EHR interoperability, Paul Tang, MD, MS, vice chair of the HITPC, said during the group's June 30 meeting.

The Advanced Health Models and Meaningful Use (MU) Workgroup presented its recommendations for helping address the holistic health of individuals during the June 30 Health IT Policy Committee meeting.

HealthTap and Quest Diagnostics will collaborate to enable doctors to order diagnostic testing services for patients through HealthTap’s comprehensive virtual care platform. 

EHR vendor Greenway Health has developed Greenway Interoperability University to recruit and train people to become interoperability experts. 

The Canadian Partnership Against Cancer has launched a research portal--the Canadian Partnership for Tomorrow Project (CPTP)--that includes health and biological data from 300,000 Canadians to help researchers study cancer and related chronic diseases.

Louisiana has created a Consumer Advisory Council that aims to engage residents of the state in the use of health IT to improve health and healthcare. 

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is seeking to conduct demonstration projects testing the capability and performance of a single-point data capture approach between EHRs and electronic data capture systems, according to a notice published in the June 26 Federal Register.