A study funded by the National Institutes of Health will look at the impact of EHR clinical reminders on the quality of primary care. 

BOSTON—A strong focus on patient safety led Adventist Health System to know the most frequent ways it harmed patients by 2009 and launch a system-wide effort to drive down those harms, said Loren Hauck, MD, CMO, speaking at AMIA’s iHealth 2015 Conference.

Susannah Fox, entrepreneur-in-residence at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, has been named the new chief technology officer of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). 

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has awarded $112 million to regional cooperatives to work with about 5,000 primary care providers in 12 states to improve heart health, the leading cause of death in the U.S.

The adoption of connected healthcare infrastructure is not uniform across the world, primarily due to the lack of a holistic digital healthcare strategy that focuses on integrated care models, according to analysis from Frost & Sullivan.

When comparing the average premiums of exchange-only health plans to health plans sold simultaneously on-exchange and off-exchange, HealthPocket found that the exchange-only health plans were not as competitive on price. This trend of higher premiums was observed across the bronze, silver, and gold health plan categories of Affordable Care Act health insurance. 

Last year an eye-popping $4 billion went into venture capital for new digital-health companies, accelerating the growth of a business sector that has now more than quadrupled in the past three years. Stated another way, a whole new spate of players has entered healthcare, and they’re saying: “No industry has ever been disrupted by an incumbent—and we’re here to disrupt healthcare.”

Pats on the back abounded after Thursday’s bipartisan, 51-0 greenlighting of the 21st Century Cures Act by the House Energy and Commerce Committee, sending the measure to the House floor for consideration by the full chamber. But the enthusiasm wasn’t unanimous over every provision among stakeholders who actually work in healthcare.