Admissions and staffed-bed counts at children’s hospitals increased slightly in 2013, Modern Healthcare reports.

With the shift toward more outpatient care and an emphasis on limiting readmissions, hospitals are shrinking capacity or closing, Modern Healthcare reports.

NEW YORK, (Feb. 17, 2015)—Virtual Health, the pioneering provider of next generation health care technology, today unveiled Virtual Health 2.0, the most advanced enterprise platform for population health management and care coordination. The next generation solution introduces the concept of empowered care, making it possible for cross-functional teams to collaborate in real-time using the broadest sets of multi-source data and multi-dimensional analytics.

Fewer than half of the 42.5 million people with mental illness in the U.S. receive treatment, at least in part because of the shortage of mental health providers, the Wall Street Journal reports.

Capital BlueCross has announced that its Accountable Care Arrangements, an innovation that the company first introduced in 2011, are yielding excellent results including improved quality of care, healthier customers, and lower health care costs.

Calgary Scientific Inc., a company known for creating transformative technology for the medical industry and beyond, announced today the release of ResolutionMD® 5.0, which offers better access to health information, supports increased teamwork and enhances communication among practitioners and patients.The new software version enables practitioners to instantly access expertise via live consultations using their web or mobile devices. Reports can now be created using voice dictation to complete patient records immediately and the need to physically transfer images on CD is drastically reduced with new image exchange capability.

Quality of care for heart attacks and other conditions is determined in large part by decisions made in a hospital’s board room, according to a story in The New York Times.

Medical schools are often criticized for being slow to modify their curricula, but some are starting to teach students to adapt to changes in the U.S. healthcare system, The Wall Street Journal reports.