A key quality measure for many payment systems is a hospital’s rate of preventable readmissions, and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) new Re-Engineered Discharge (RED) Toolkit aims to help institutions improve their numbers.

This week I spoke with Scott Sheaf of Battelle about the impact Apple’s new consumer app and developer tools could have on mobile health and the state of the market when it comes to regulation, safety and consumer engagement.

Move over MRs and CTs, surgical robots and new facilities. According to Premier Inc.’s spring 2014 Economic Outlook C-suite survey, this year’s top investment priority for the healthcare C-suite crowd is healthcare information technology (HIT).

As widespread health IT adoption propels the demand for greater data exchange, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) released a report outlining its vision for nationwide interoperability to move to a learning health system.

When it comes to choosing a physician, email communication is a strong selling point for consumers, according to a recent survey by Catalyst Healthcare Research.

Apple announced its long-anticipated app designed to connect healthcare information from a variety of third-party apps. The personal computing giant has teamed with Mayo Clinic to provide consumers with a comprehensive medical view on a mobile device.

Physicians utilizing EHRs within the patient-centered medical home provide higher quality care than those who use paper medical records or EHRs without the PCMH, according to a study published in the Annals of Internal Medicine.

According to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), it was able to accept nearly all of the more than 127,000 ICD-10 test claims submitted by approximately 2,600 providers, suppliers, billing companies and claims clearinghouses who participated in its test in early March.