LAS VEGAS - Humana Inc. (NYSE: HUM) and HealthCare Partners Nevada announced a new Accountable Care arrangement and population-health partnership in support of their continued efforts to provide improved health and coordinated care for Medicare beneficiaries and commercial members.

 Gourmet food, posh pillows, lobby waterfalls, original art and valet parking are among the amenities that hospitals are offering patients to lure them away from competitors, according to an article in The Dallas Morning News.  

A new report builds upon the 2013 JASON report from last April on how to build a robust data infrastructure, and lays out recommendations for an infrastructure that could achieve interoperability among EHRs and integrate data from all sources.

FLORHAM PARK, N.J., Dec. 3, 2014 -- DataMotion™ announced today it has achieved accreditation with the Direct Trusted Agent Accreditation Program (DTAAP) as both a Certificate Authority (CA) and Registration Authority (RA) from DirectTrust.org and the Electronic Healthcare Network Accreditation Commission (EHNAC).

NEVADA CITY, Calif., Dec. 2, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- The National Rural Accountable Care Consortium has announced the creation of preferred consulting relationships with four nationally recognized financial consulting firms to support its 2016 ACOs. These firms are BKD, DHG Healthcare, Eide Bailly, and HFS Consultants.

Hospitals committed 17 percent fewer medical errors in 2013 than in 2010, and this increase in patient safety saved the lives of 50,000 people, according to the Department of Health and Human Services.

More research is needed to understand the overall impact of health information exchanges, according to a RAND study published in the Annals of Internal Medicine.

A newly established center at the University of Michigan School of Nursing will focus on complexity and self-management of chronic disease.