A new report from the Commonwealth Fund lays out the economic incentive the Affordable Care Act (ACA) creates for healthcare providers to address social disparities along with medical needs.

Although surgical procedures are among the most expensive of claims, Accountable Care Organization (ACO) cost reduction efforts don’t pay much attention to surgery as an area where possible waste in healthcare delivery may occur finds a new study published in Health Affairs.

The analysis of healthcare spending by Anthem Blue Cross and HealthCare Partners in California offers one of the first large documented examples of how accountable care organizations (ACOs) may trim costs in the commercial PPO population.

Outdated government policies are holding Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) back from making better use of technology to lower cost while simultaneously improving care say no less than 70 individual companies, institutions and groups in three separate letters sent to incoming U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Sylvia Mathews Burwell.

Interoperability has been a top priority for everyone in health IT and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT shared its vision for nationwide interoperability over the next 10 years.

WASHINGTON, June 10, 2014 -- The mHealth Summit announced today that it will host the Global mHealth Forum, a two-day co-located event, to focus on mobile and connected health in low and middle income countries (LMICs).

WATERTOWN, Mass., June 9, 2014 -- Epocrates, Inc., an athenahealth, Inc. (Nasdaq:ATHN) service, today announced that, for the fifth consecutive year, Epocrates leads the digital health market in terms of medical reference app reach on smartphones1, according toManhattan Research's 2014 Taking the Pulse® U.S. study.

BLUE BELL, Pa.--Halfpenny Technologies, Inc. announced today that it has entered into an agreement with Janssen Diagnostics, LLC that will supplement the unique clinical data needs of Janssen’s AVIGA™ EHR.