The Telepsychiatry Improves Outcomes in Frontier Communities program in Boise, Idaho, has received a $100,000 grant in conjunction with an award from Premier as part of its Premier Cares Award program.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has established a new initiative that would bring together various healthcare stakeholders and focus on transitioning to value-based care and other payment models.

In 2014, most incentive-eligible hospitals and professionals (EHs and EPs) were pushed into ramping up for Meaningful Use stage 2 by financial factors—specifically, the promise of attractive bonuses and the peril of subtractive adjustments. There’s little naiveté around that EHR dynamic. Still, along the way, individuals in healthcare found themselves buying in to the program’s underlying principles to a degree they hadn’t when they started with Stage 1.

Medical imaging exchange within Orlando Health’s expansive system of six community hospitals, two specialty hospitals, a cancer center and nearly 3,000  physicians with privileges was turnkey; despite its best efforts, instantaneous image sharing with its 50 referring facilities continued to elude the organization.

As of December 2014, nearly five million patients in the U.S. had received online access to their clinicians’ notes.

HOUSTON, Feb. 26, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- R-Conrad Consulting, a fast-growing business and healthcare consulting firm, announced today that it has developed Population Health Rx™, a process-driven solution to help hospitals and health care providers improve transition-of-care services for high-risk and medically complex patient populations

A survey of more than 1,000 U.S. adults revealed that Americans are ready and willing to leverage health apps and wearable devices to improve their personal health.

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