The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality will fund ambulatory care and long-term care facilities to research strategies to improve patient safety through IT and other evidence-based tools.

The home health technology market--connected devices, services and applications used by a consumer outside of a clinical setting for medical, health or wellness purposes--will grow from $3.4 billion in 2014 to more than $13.7 billion by 2020, according to a report from Tractica.

If providers want the elderly and those with chronic conditions to adopt mobile health tools, developers will need to make the tools more convenient and easier to use, according to a study published in the Journal of Medical Internet Research.

The Obama administration will award a Manufacturing Innovation Institute for Flexible Hybrid Electronics to a consortium of 162 companies, universities and non-profits led by the FlexTech Alliance, according to an announcement from the Department of Defense.

Cerner (#34), Express Scripts (#66) and Intuitive Surgical (#87), all healthcare-specific companies based in the U.S., have made the Forbes list of the world’s 100 most innovative companies.

A new law means physicians participating in Texas' Medicaid program will receive compensation for virtual appointments with children at school. 

Electronic triggers designed to search for key data were able to identify and reduce follow-up delays for patients being evaluated for a diagnosis of colon or prostate cancer.

Although Medicare's 20 Pioneer and 333 Shared Savings Program accountable care organizations (ACOs) generated more than $411 million in savings in 2014, three out of four of these ACOs did not slow health spending enough to earn bonuses last year.