National Institutes of Health has unveiled a seven-year, $656 million initiative, Big Data to Knowledge (BD2K), to make huge biomedical data sets available to researchers worldwide, reports Los Angeles Times.

Despite widespread adoption of health IT since the passage of the HITECH Act, healthcare organizations continue to struggle with seamless health information exchange, according to the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT’s October 2014 report to Congress.

This week, several organizations announced big moves in health IT, collaborating, strategizing and calling on Congress to act.

The University of Illinois at Chicago and the National Council on Aging are establishing a new rehabilitation research and training center on family support thanks to a $4.3 million grant.

Aramark, a provider of diagnostic and imaging services, announced the opening of Healthcare Technology & Innovation Center in Charlotte, N.C.

With all the talk of interoperability (and the lack thereof), it's no big surprise that the latest report on health IT finds that most EHR vendors' products are not interoperable.

The 2014 Healthcare Leadership Forum has concluded in Chicago, and participants were energized! Produced by Clinical Innovation + Technology’s parent company TriMed Media Group and sponsored by Elsevier Clinical Solutions, there was a palpable buzz in the air during and immediately following the gathering.

Wal-Mart’s elimination of health insurance coverage for 30,000 part-time workers may actually be a boom to more progressive health reform models like a single-payer system, according to Salon.