JACKSON, Tenn. & BLOOMFIELD, Conn.--First-year results from Cigna's (NYSE: CI) collaborative accountable care initiative with The Jackson Clinic indicate that the program is showing progress toward achieving the “triple aim” of improved health, affordability and patient experience. The Jackson Clinic serves over 5,500 individuals covered by a Cigna health plan and has shown significantly positive results in delivering quality care while controlling total medical cost trend.

Verizon has received U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) 510(k) clearance for Converged Health Management, a cloud-based, remote patient-monitoring medical device.

 Following several reports, including one from The ECRI Institute, a patient safety organization, the Food & Drug Administration (FDA) has recognized voluntary interoperability standards for medical devices in a notice published in the Federal Register on Aug. 6.

Interoperability requires mandatory and clearly executable standards and a delay in Meaningful Use to allow providers to get the processes right, according to a panel of healthcare leaders at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ 2013 eHealth Summit.

San Diego-based Palomar Health and Qualcomm Life are joining forces to explore the application of wearable computing in medicine.

A care transition intervention that directed largely existing resources to a smaller subgroup of patients with heart failure based on daily EMR-based risk stratification resulted in a reduction in overall readmissions, according to a study published in British Medical Journal Quality & Safety.

This week, Clinical Innovation + Technology brought you much more coverage from the recent mHealth + Telehealth World Congress 2013, which covered exciting developments in this area of healthcare.

Patient Fusion, an online health platform, announced the launch of the mobile medical appointment booking that will be available for free to the estimated 14 million newly insured Americans under Obamacare.