The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) awarded the National Parkinson Foundation (NPF) and John Hopkins University $1.7 million to deliver telemedicine care to Parkinson’s disease patients, according to a May 13 announcement. This project is one of 51 projects totaling more than $88.6 million that PCORI approved for funding on May 6.

The global health IT market is estimated to jump 7 percent to hit $56.7 billion by 2017 from $40.4 billion in 2012. Demand for clinical information technology, administrative solutions and services is fueling this growth, according to a global market research and consulting company MarketsandMarkets report released on May 10.

CAMBRIDGE, MASS. -“The power is there, it’s coming into the hospitals in peoples’ pockets,” Sean Kelly, MD, CMO at Imprivata and emergency physician at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, said on the importance of mobile technology to drive patient engagement. In light of privacy and security challenges, “we need way to find ways to make technology work for us rather than against us,” he added.

CAMBRIDGE, MASS.--“Hospitals are the perfect environment for mobile app solutions,” Naomi Fried, PhD, CIO, Boston Children’s Hospital (BCH) said in the keynote speech at the Institute of Health Technology Transformation’s Boston Health IT Summit on May 8.

Toronto, May 09, 2013 -- Patient Prompt®, the leader in bi-directional patient communication, has launched a unique initiative to assist the growing number of physician-sponsored Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) meet their quality measures obligations.

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla., May 8, 2013 -- FEEL Golf Co., Inc. (OTCBB: FEEL), through its wholly owned Florida based subsidiary, Intelligent Living Inc. ("ILI"), announced today that the Company has signed an Electronic Medical Records software development agreement with ScheduleMorePatients LLC ("SMP"), a leading healthcare technology research company specializing in anti-aging management and patient health software.

“Five percent of the problem is people and 90 percent of the problem is systems,” said Farzad Mostashari, MD, ScM, national coordinator of health IT, in opening remarks at the Health IT Policy Committee on May 7.

In a continuing Privacy & Security Tiger Team discussion on patient record query and response recommendations, team co-chair, Deven McGraw—director of the Health Privacy Project at the Center for Democracy & Technology—said the group has decided not to add additional policies for non-targeted queries.