A digital tool that enables patients and their families to use Medicare claims data to organize cost and other information to support healthcare decisions won first prize for the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT’s (ONC’s) Code-a-Palooza challenge at the 2014 Health Datapalooza in Washington, D.C.

Horsham, Pa. – June 3, 2014 – NextGen Healthcare Information Systems, LLC., a wholly owned subsidiary of Quality Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: QSII) and a leading provider of healthcare information systems and connectivity solutions, announced today it now is capable of successfully transmitting clinical care information between disparate technology platforms, thereby achieving vendor agnostic interoperability.

Physicians are increasingly turning to digital tools to achieve outcomes-based incentives, according to an annual market research study published by Manhattan Research.

Medicine as practiced today has lost its acceptance of the finite nature of human life and this is leading to negative consequences for elderly patients with multiple health problems, argues physician and nurse palliative care experts a Health Affairs commentary.

A presidential advisory group of scientists asserts that systems engineering holds the key to better healthcare and lower costs.

The future of wearable technology may be the shirt on your back.

This week we announced the call for nominations for the first CIT Accelerator Awards. We will put the spotlight on innovations and processes that are working to achieve the triple aim.

Healthcare organizations are using new tools and innovations to streamline the delivery of care in the emergency department while improving patient satisfaction.