The National Institutes of Health has released the first set of funding opportunities set to build the Precision Medicine Initiative.

Fifteen percent of primary care respondents to a survey on telehealth said they use telehealth in their practices. 

PrecisionFDA, an open-source cloud platform for genomic and bioinformatics information, has been released in a closed beta form by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

U.S. Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker has named four U.S. organizations as the 2015 recipients of the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award, the nation’s highest Presidential honor for performance excellence. 

AEGIS.net, creator of the AEGIS Developers Integration Lab (DIL), has introduced the Touchstone Project, a next generation cloud-based testing platform that applies conformance and interoperability testing in a test-driven-development (TDD) integrated ecosystem.

Federal officials should use new payment policies to reassess how providers are required to use informatics tools, and rethink how quality is measured in a digital world, said AMIA in its comments responding to a request for information (RFI) about how best to implement a range of policies required by the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA) of 2015. 

The American College of Physicians (ACP) released a position paper on Nov. 10 on the increasing popularity of concierge medicine and direct patient contracting practices (DPCPs) and patient care implications of the arrangements. The paper was simultaneously published in the Annals of Internal Medicine.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has awarded 16 two-year Special Innovation Projects (SIPs) to 10 regional Quality Innovation Network-Quality Improvement Organizations.