To maximize health IT to improve quality improvement efforts, the Arkansas Foundation for Medical Care looks at what’s going on in rural parts of the state, said Rhelinda McFadden, RN, CPHIT, CPEHR, quality specialist, speaking during a panel at the May 19 CMS eHealth Summit.

The University of California, Irvine School of Medicine is betting that wearable technology is the wave of the future.

Cleveland Clinic has entered a joint venture with telehealth technology company Healthspot to offer virtual walk-in kiosks.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services plans to assess public health agencies' readiness for Meaningful Use reporting requirements and create a database to aid healthcare providers if the agencies are unprepared. The agency published a notice on the database in the May 16 Federal Register.

A new report by Press Ganey presents a framework to deconstruct and address patient suffering as part of its work to advance patient-centered care.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla.--Availity and WellPoint, Inc. have completed the migration of portal activity of participating providers in WellPoint’s affiliated health plans in California, Colorado, Nevada, and New York to the Availity Web Portal. The successful conversion closed one of the last phases of a project which enables providers to use Availity in place of the previous provider portal as the access point for conducting online health care transactions with the company’s affiliated health plans in 14 states and 13 additional plans and government plans across the country. The milestone marked an ambitious undertaking that was achieved with virtually no disruption to provider or health plan workflows.

BOSTON--“Incremental innovation is vital and may be sufficient but we’re asking, is there something more?” said David Blumenthal, MD, MPP, president of The Commonwealth Fund, speaking at the National Healthcare Innovation Summit.

BOSTON—Innovation is an imperative, not just an option in today’s healthcare environment, said futurist Ian Morrison, PhD, speaking at the National Healthcare Innovation Summit on May 14.