Amsterdam, the Netherlands – Royal Philips (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHIA) and Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC) today announced a new research collaboration aimed at improving preventative care and chronic care through wearable technologies.

Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia M. Burwell was joined by President Obama, as well as state representatives, insurers, providers, business leaders, and consumers at the White House to kick off the Health Care Payment Learning and Action Network.

The Department of Health and Human Services has released Positive Spin, a digital educational tool that uses personal storytelling to promote the importance of getting people with HIV into treatment.

The health IT needs of patient-centered medical homes must evolve from digitized patient record repositories into interoperable electronic collaboration platforms to further develop care coordination efforts, according to a study published in Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association.

In an effort to help providers transition to value-based reimbursement models, Humana has formed two new organizations focused on population health.

Raleigh, NC, March 25, 2015 – TeleHealth Services, the nation’s leading provider of hospital televisions and interactive patient engagement solutions, announced through their partnership with Samsung Electronics America, Inc., the completion of a new patient engagement solution called SmarTigr.

Partners HealthCare has been awarded a grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation for the development of an 'Engagement Engine' to support the sustained use of health and activity trackers and engagement in physical activity, in order to improve health outcomes in the general population.

In a letter to Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Administrator Marilyn Tavenner, the Alliance for Connected Care outlined its position on using telehealth services in accountable care organizations.