“We have good evidence that games can be used to improve health," according to Paul Tarini, a senior program officer at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. With this in mind, the foundation is providing seed money for the new Center for Digital Games Research at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

MT. PROSPECT, Ill.--A new software interface launched today by the Rauland Responder® critical communications solution is the first instance of a nurse call system integrating directly to a hospital patient’s electronic medical record, providing the ability for the systems to share information bi-directionally.

The Health Information Management and Systems Society has submitted four recommendations to Congress to help healthcare achieve interoperability.

Anthem is warning its 80 million former and current members, who were victims of a cyberattack breach, of an email scam, according to Reuters. 

Summa Health System, based in Akron, Ohio, has entered into an accountable care agreement with Humana, reports Crain's Cleveland Business.

The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT held its annual meeting this week so there was much discussion about interoperability, value-based care, population health, patient engagement and more.

Major U.S. hospitals are quickly adopting Apple healthcare technology, in particular Apple's HealthKit service, reports Reuters.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—The OpenNotes effort to allow patients access to their own records has grown significantly over the past few years and John Mafi, MD, discussed at the ONC 2015 Annual Meeting the recent $450,000 grant from The Commonwealth Fund to develop OurNotes, an initiative to promote active patient engagement in health and illness that invites patients to contribute to their own EMRs.