Post your procedure online and physicians will bid to perform the surgery. A new company has taken price transparency to a new level with this Priceline-like business model.

Royal Philips and Accenture have developed proof of concept software connecting a wearable display to Emotiv Insight Brainware that could ultimately give more independence to patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and other neurodegenerative diseases.

The Dept. of Health and Human Services has granted $106.7 million in awards to 46 states, Washington D.C. and five jurisdictions as part of the Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting Program (Home Visiting Program) established by the Affordable Care Act.

The majority of the recent decline in healthcare spending growth from 2009 to 2011 was due to the economic downturn, according to study published in the August issue of Health Affairs.

Boston, MA, July 30, 2014 – As the nation grapples with growing physician shortages across the country, The Physicians Foundation and the Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research at The University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill (UNC) today launched a new innovative tool to help policy makers, physicians and health systems better plan where to practice and what type of practitioners will be needed in order to meet the growing utilization of healthcare in the United States.

The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) has approved $54.8 million in funding to support 33 new patient-centered comparative clinical effectiveness research projects focusing on conditions including cardiovascular disease, diabetes, chronic pain and cancer.

The national focus on interoperability continues with a Senate subcommittee drafting a bill this week that would require the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT’s (ONC) Health IT Policy Committee to issue a report on the operational, technical and financial challenges of EHR interoperability as well as the role of EHR certification in advancing or hindering interoperability.

As expected, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced late Thursday that Oct. 1, 2015, will indeed be the new transition date for the International Classification of Diseases 10th Revision (ICD-10) coding system in healthcare claims — a date stakeholders have urged it to settle on for months.