While the final rule implementing the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA) will allow practices to submit only some data in 2017, CMS doesn’t have the IT infrastructure in place to collect it.

In a Dec. 16 letter to CMS, the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) discussed the need for 2017 to be a transition year with the implementation of the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA). CHIME expressed hoped CMS would lengthen the timeline for the industry's MACRA transition into 2018.

With photosynthesis, plants use sunlight to produce their own food. Dutch scientists have harnessed this type of approach to create an artificial leaf that uses a type of photosynthesis to create drugs wherever the sun shines.

The remote patient monitoring device market is expected to reach $1.9 billion in 2025 on a global basis, according to a new report from Research and Markets.

H. Stephen Lieber, president and CEO of the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS), will be retiring at the end of 2017. 

Researchers from Kaiser Permanente have developed a new breast cancer model to help clinicians effectively predict the risk in Hispanic patients.

One key to staying healthy and out of the hospital, whether dealing with a chronic condition or a simple ear infection, is taking medication as prescribed. Yet only half of American adults dutifully refill and take prescriptions as directed.

Social media might be detrimental to mental health. Research from the University of Pittsburgh Center for Research on Media, Technology and Health has found a link between increased time on social media and increased rates of depression and anxiety in young adults.