Innovative technologies continue to push all boundaries.

A study of New Orleans’ Beacon Community demonstrates how community relationships are essential when introducing and sustaining technology in healthcare settings.

Scottsdale, AZ, August 08, 2014 -- NCPDP, the not-for-profit pharmacy standards development organization, announced today the deadline to submit a proposal for the NCPDP 2015 Annual Technology & Business Conference is September 1st. The national conference draws more than 700 attendees from across the healthcare industry, including technical, business and executive representatives from health plans, pharmacy benefit managers, retail and independent pharmacies, long-term care providers, healthcare consultants, technology vendors, manufacturers, wholesale drug distributors, database management organizations and others.

National Coordinator for Health IT Karen DeSalvo, MPH, MSc, designated interoperability as her top priority for 2014—and she appears to be keeping her word.

President Obama signed into law a $16.3 billion bill to reform the Department of Veterans Affairs to improve better access to care after several VA centers covered up long wait times.

Trained health coaches supported by tablet-based software significantly reduced readmissions among at-risk Medicare patients, according to the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality’s Innovations Exchange.

WOONSOCKET, R.I., Aug. 7, 2014--The first MinuteClinic walk-in medical clinics in Nebraska are opening this week inside select CVS/pharmacy stores. Two clinics opened yesterday in Lincoln and one is opening today in Omaha.  A third clinic in Lincoln and three more clinics in the Omaha area will open later this month.

The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT will lead an effort to draft a “living document” to accompany its 10-year interoperability vision, Erica Galvez, ONC’s interoperability portfolio manager, told the Health IT Policy Committee at its meeting on Aug. 6.