Eighty-nine accountable care organizations will join the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services' Medicare Shared Savings Program starting in 2015, reports Modern Healthcare. 

McKesson will implement NIMIS within an additional seven hospitals, helping to transform radiology services across Ireland

Many healthcare partnerships and mergers announced in 2014 will soon take shape in the New Year, reports Albany Business Review.

RESTON, Va. — December 16, 2014 —   The Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange (WEDI) in partnership with the Sullivan Institute for Healthcare Innovation, the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) and the Medical Group Management Association (MGMA), assembled more than 40 representatives from major health plans, providers, health IT vendors, healthcare organizations and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) in an effort to develop an effective and consistent industry blueprint for a virtual clipboard mobile application.

Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam is moving to expand Medicaid in the state, reports NPR.  

The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center and UnitedHealthcare have announced a pilot to study a new cancer care payment model, according to MarketWatch.

Although the U.S. provides free and universal healthcare for patients over 65, it still lags significantly behind other industrialized countries in its delivery of care for this age segment, reports The New York Times.

JDRF and the Centre for Global eHealth Innovation at the University Health Network (UHN) in Toronto announced publication of interoperability standards for diabetes devices. The work is the result of  JDRF Canadian Clinical Trial Network (JDRF CCTN) funding to Dr. Joseph Cafazzo at UHN to pilot the development of standard communication protocols that define how diabetes devices, such as insulin pumps, blood glucose meters, and continuous glucose monitors, communicate with one another and with other devices.