As a founding member of the Sequoia Project's Carequality initiative, and an ardent advocate for nationwide interoperability in the digital health environment, the American Medical Association welcomes today’s alignment involving two national-level networks for sharing health data.

CMS has announced the creation of the Medicare-Medicaid Accountable Care Organization (ACO) model, aiming to improve care coordination for beneficiaries who are enrolled in both programs.

Virtual reality and physical therapy may prove helpful in improving motor skills in damaged limbs. Researchers from Israel's Tel Aviv University (TAU) examined healthy patients who used 3D virtual reality to improve movements in one hand by "training" it with the dominant hand.

Health IT encompasses electronic health records, electronic health tools, mobile applications and many more innovative technologies that help push healthcare forward. With the number of useful health IT devices growing, health plans should encourage the use of these technologies to improve behavioral healthcare.

The number of enrollees in plans offered on health insurance exchanges has increased slightly compared to the last open enrollment period, with sign-ups accelerating before the deadline to get coverage starting Jan. 1, 2017.

A smartphone can provide a depth of information about its user that would surprise most people. Researchers are eying these data aggregators as possible sources of information about cardiovascular health-related behaviors.

Researchers from the Ralph H. Johnson VA Medical Center in Charleston, South Carolina, have found that therapy via telemedicine is just as effective as an in-person session for veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), Reuters reports.

Using automated calling services to help patients manage their own health can produce some benefits, according to a review by Cochrane, but it doesn’t appear to be a replacement for follow-up calls between healthcare professionals and patients.