BOSTON--As the “least hated insurance company among providers,” Aetna has been able to work with health systems as they take on risk, said Mark Bertolini, CEO and president of the health plan.

A new analysis by the Gary and Mary West Health Policy Center finds that moving beyond just encouraging patients to shop for healthcare services and also involving ordering physicians, employers and policymakers in healthcare spending decisions could save $100 billion over 10 years.

By 2025, embedded and wearable computing will revolutionize the digital environment, becoming “like electricity”—less visible but more central in people’s daily lives, according to a report published by the Pew Research Center’s Internet Project in collaboration with Elon University’s Imagining the Internet Center.

An advance care planning tool that incorporates Facebook won California HealthCare Foundation’s (CHCF’s) design completion, "Catalyzing Communication About End-of-Life Care.”

An intensive care unit telemedicine intervention program at eight Department of Veterans Affairs hospitals made no impact on reducing patient mortality rates or length of stay, according to a study appearing in JAMA Internal Medicine.

BOSTON—The first step to population health management is knowing your patients, said Adrian Zai, MD, PhD, MPH, clinical director of population informatics at Massachusetts General Hospital’s Laboratory of Computer Science and instructor in medicine at Harvard Medical School. Zai, who developed population health tools that later were purchased by Partners Healthcare, spoke during the iHT2 Health IT Summit on May 13.

Chicago, IL—May 15, 2014—Axial Exchange, Inc., a pioneer in using mobile apps to deepen the patient’s role in improving outcomes, and Becker’s Hospital Review, a leading healthcare trade publication, today announced the results of the first National Patient Engagement Ranking  at the Becker’s Hospital Review 5th Annual Meeting, in Chicago. The national ranking evaluated provider organizations across the United States, ranking hospitals’ patient engagement efforts based on an analysis of publicly available data. In the inaugural national ranking, Mayo Clinic hospitals (Eau Claire Hospital, Albert Lee and Rochester St. Mary’s Hospital), Medical Center of the Rockies and Roper Hospital received the highest scores of all 3,077 U.S. hospitals assessed.

Three of the nation’s largest health insurance companies--Aetna, Humana and UnitedHealthcare--will work with the Health Care Cost Institute to develop and provide consumers free access to an online tool that will offer comprehensive information about the price and quality of healthcare services.