Birmingham, Ala., May 8, 2014— MEDSEEK, the only provider of a comprehensive patient influence platform for the healthcare industry, announced the winners of the eHealth Excellence Awards during the 2014 Client Congress at Red Rock Resort in Las Vegas, Nevada this week.

Cedars-Sinai Health System and MemorialCare Health System are launching Summation Health Ventures, a new partnership that will accelerate healthcare innovation.

Lots of thoughtful consideration went into the FDASIA health IT draft report, said Jodi Daniel, JD, MPH, director of the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT’s Office of Policy Planning, at the May 6 Health IT Policy Committee meeting. She stressed, however, that the report is still in draft form.

Stanford researchers examined hospital claims for privately insured patients between 2001 and 2007 and found that what some health economists had warned does indeed seem to be true — hospital ownership of physician groups does seem to lead to more expensive care.

Physician leadership is essential to a better overall healthcare system, according to a white paper published by the American College of Physician Executives.

KING OF PRUSSIA, Pa. – May 1, 2014 – MRO Corp., a leader in disclosure management and health information exchange, announced today that it is a founding member of Carequality ("care-e-quality"), an industry collaborative bringing together diverse HIT industry leaders in order to build consensus on how to accelerate seamless health information exchange.

Consulting firm Oliver Wyman’s ongoing tracking of the growth of accountable care organizations (ACOs) finds an additional 150 such payor-provider arrangements since its last report in July of 2013.

AppitUP received nearly 200 mobile application ideas from UPenn’s faculty, students and staff. All submissions were reviewed and rated by local investors. Investors scored the ideas on 4 criteria: potential for commercialization; marketability; innovation and fundability. Based on the strength of those ratings, the top ten mobile application ideas were presented to UPenn software development partners; six ideas were selected to advance to the finals and have the prototype built.