The patient-centered medical home model seems to make intuitive sense as a way to reduce waste in health care. Therefore, it came as a shock to many when the Journal of the American Medical Association published research showing that adopting this model actually didn’t make much of a difference in costs or outcomes.

The American Telemedicine Association has asked Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius to lift "unnecessary restrictions" on healthcare delivery that prohibits millions of Americans from accessing quality medical care."

In a significant development signaling the world-wide growth of telemedicine, the American Telemedicine Association (ATA) today announced it will co-host the first telemedicine technology exhibition at the Binhai International Convention and Exhibition Center in Tianjin, China, outside of Beijing, Oct. 28-30, 2014. Over 5,000 attendees and 500 exhibitors are expected to attend this inaugural event. The meeting has official approval of the government and is co-hosted by the Municipal Government of Tianjin Binhai New Area as well as the Tianjin Public Health Bureau and Medical Association. Information on registration and exhibiting will be available May 2014.

Thanks to improved communication, greater transparency, better physician job satisfaction and a more patient-centered focus, more healthcare leaders and the physicians they employ approve of the integrated physician model , according to a survey conducted by the American College of Physician Executives.

(March 5, 2014 - MILWAUKEE, WI) The VNA Institute of Technology invites all healthcare IT professionals to Challenges and Opportunities of Clinical Interoperability, an informative IT symposium in San Francisco, CA on Monday, March 24th.  The event brings together notable IT leaders from the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Stanford Hospital and Clinics, and The Advisory Board Company to discuss key issues in clinical image interoperability across the enterprise.  Radiologists, cardiologists, hospital executives, CIOs, IT managers and more will attend this unique event.  Attendees are not required to belong to VNAIT to attend, but may subscribe to VNAIT.org by Clicking Here to earn free CPHIMS CE hours.

Main Line Health (MLH), a Penn-based health system, and MinuteClinic, CVS’s retail healthcare division, have signed an agreement in which MLH’s network of more than 2,000 doctors will serve as collaborating physicians for MinuteClinic locations in Chester, Delaware and Montgomery counties.

Nursing homes that offered telemedicine after hours significantly reduced the hospitalization rate of their patients compared to facilities that did not offer this service, according to a Commonwealth Fund-supported study published in Health Affairs.

Kaiser Permanente is betting on mobile health and telehealth to reduce unnecessary and costly visits to urgent care centers and hospitals.