Despite the focus on patient engagement, price transparency and provider quality ratings, few individuals are using quality and pricing data on physicians and hospitals to make their healthcare choices, according to a Kaiser Family Foundation poll.

Nashville, Tennessee—April 16, 2015 — HealthTrustSM announces today the launch of a new suite of services and partnership with InVivoLink, Inc. to expand their medical device sourcing capabilities.

Following up on the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT's recent report on information blocking among health IT, the New York Times published an editorial on the same issue.  

Sixty percent of providers surveyed named telemedicine as one of their highest priorities. Those are the findings of a survey conducted of 233 providers across the care continuum conducted by REACH Health, an enterprise telemedicine software solutions vendor.

In a deal just approved by the New York comptroller, Xerox will work with the state of New York through a $564.9 million, five-year contract to update its Medicaid claims processing system to a next-generation technology platform that will help manage expanding Medicaid rolls.

The home health technology market is expected to grow to more than four times its current size by 2020, according to a report from market intelligence firm Tractica. 

The National Institutes of Health's Information Technology Acquisition and Assessment Center is awarding $20 billion in IT work including deployment and installation, maintenance and training, engineering studies, enterprise licenses and extended warranties, everything-as-a-service, mobility, collaboration, web and video-conferencing, cyber security, big data, virtualization and health and biomedical IT. 

HOUSTON, TX - April 7, 2015 ---VisionSR, a medical software company, announced that it has licensed an advanced multimedia structured reporting technology from The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center designed to advance the practice of diagnostic radiology.