The Accountable Care Workgroup’s draft recommendations presented to the Health IT Policy Committee during its July 8 meeting focused on four key areas.

The state of Massachusetts is pouring $23 million in funding into 61 hospitals and community centers to help them establish more effective and cost-efficient integrated delivery systems.

The Department of Health & Human Services announced the availability of $100 million in Affordable Care Act funding to increase access to primary care through new community health centers.

While the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT continues to talk about the high priority for interoperability, others are calling for more drastic action.

HAIFA, Israel--At Google’s I/O Developer Conference last month, MediSafe (www.medisafeproject.com) expanded its leading medication management platform to include wearables, becoming the first mobile health app on Google’s just-announced suite of Android Wear smartwatches.

Rockville, MD, July 08, 201-- DrFirst, a leading provider of healthcare IT solutions designed to improve clinical outcomes for patients, announced today that there are now over 28,000 pharmacies nationwide that accept electronically transmitted prescriptions for controlled substances, representing 41 percent of all retail pharmacies in the United States.

Several stakeholder organizations submitted comments representing mixed opinions on the risk-based health IT regulatory draft framework just in time to meet the July 7 deadline.

The computerized physician order entry market is expected to grow 6.5 percent, or from $938.4 million in 2013 to $1.28 billion in 2018, according to a report from Texas-based research firm MicroMarket Monitor.