The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services for the first time introduced star ratings on Hospital Compare, the agency’s public information website, to make it easier for consumers to choose a hospital and understand the quality of care they deliver. 

A proposed rule would increase Medicare payments to skilled nursing facilities and encourages the providers to "utilize health information exchange and certified health IT."  

Another HIMSS annual conference has come and gone and I think this year’s event presented a few surprises. There was outright criticism of Meaningful Use and while many expected a lot of focus on patient engagement and population health, interoperability drove more debate and conversation, in my opinion.

A recent hackathon focused on hospital readmissions was formed and launched by the Yale Center for Biomedical and Interventional Technology (CBIT), led by Executive Director Christopher Loose, PhD, and the Yale-New Haven Hospital Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation (CORE), led by Executive Director Harlan M. Krumholz, MD, with partnerships extended to MIT Hacking Medicine and UCONN.

A security researcher's own inpatient care experience involved the very drug infusion pumps he had recently discovered were susceptible to hacking.

LOS ANGELES, April 16, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- DPS Health, a leader in digital behavior change interventions for emergent-risk populations, announced today the launch of its health self-management solution.

The shift to value-based reimbursement is all about providing tools across the care continuum and Virtual Health, a company focused on population health, aims to provide the platform for any provider to do just that.

Ninety percent of more than 200 healthcare provider employees use mobile devices within their organizations to engage patients in their care, according to the 2015 HIMSS Mobile Technology Survey.