The Cleveland Clinic’s New Ventures Healthcare Challenge is looking for early-stage health IT companies with promising technologies to disrupt the healthcare market.

The latest issue of the American Journal of Accountable Care delves into technology and patient engagement’s role in delivering quality care at lower costs.

The goal of creating better care coordination is pushing traditional competitors into more collaborative agreements. The latest example comes from Missouri, where 5 health systems announced the formation of a new health network encompassing more than 9,300 employees and approximately 1,000 employed and affiliated physicians.

Falls Church, Virgina-based health information technology (IT) company CSC has announced that it will team with electronic health record (EHR) developer Allscripts and technology giant HP to make a grab for the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) Healthcare Management System Modernization (DHMSM) contract that may end up being worth billions.

The Mosakowski Institute for Public Enterprise at Clark University is joining forces with the Worcester Division of Public Health to create an Academic Health Department.

Johns Hopkins Medicine is planning to launch a pilot later this summer for an application for tablet devices that works with EHR systems to automate patient safety checklists.

SACRAMENTO, Calif. & SOLANA BEACH, Calif.--The California Telehealth Network (CTN) and HealthFusion, Inc., announced today that HealthFusion’s MediTouch Electronic Health Record is the first electronic health records partner for the California Telehealth Network. This new partnership supports the CTN mission of increasing access to healthcare through advanced information technology, with an emphasis on rural and medically underserved areas of California.

The leading Northern California non-profit health system Sutter Health has announced that over the summer, it will begin deploying a health information exchange (HIE) system aimed at eventually allowing its doctors and hospitals to securely share clinical information with other providers, both inside and outside its network of care.