Physician leadership is critical to foster change within accountable care organizations, according to a Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy & Clinical Practice study published in the June issue of Health Affairs.

PITTSBURGH, PA – June 3, 2014 – Net Health, the leading provider of software solutions for outpatient specialty care, announced today its acquisition of The Rehab Documentation Company (ReDoc), a provider of integrated clinical EMR and management solutions for the growing physical, occupational, and speech therapy markets.

LOS ANGELES--Moms and their families can spend more time at the beach, and less time dealing with common illnesses and infections this summer thanks to the new telehealth app LiveHealth Online. The LiveHeath Online app offers a safe, fast and easy way for moms to talk face to face with a doctor to get a diagnosis and treatment for themselves and their families for urgent care conditions that pop up every summer, like hand-foot-mouth, pink eye, rashes, sunburns, and other air-and-water borne viruses.

Telehealth technology is one answer to the looming physician shortage, which currently is further strained by the millions of newly eligible patients under the Affordable Care Act. But the promise of telehealth is in a “state of limbo” as inconsistent state policies and safety concerns curb its use, wrote Joseph Kvedar, MD, founder and director of the Center for Connected Health at Partners HealthCare, in an editorial in Health Affairs.

McLean, VA, June 03, 2014 -- ViTel Net, a pioneer in the telemedicine/telehealth industry, is joining forces with the MGH MD PnP research program, a leader in developing advanced integrated clinical environments, to support the SmartAmerica Challenge for healthcare, a White House Presidential Innovation Fellow project.

A digital tool that enables patients and their families to use Medicare claims data to organize cost and other information to support healthcare decisions won first prize for the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT’s (ONC’s) Code-a-Palooza challenge at the 2014 Health Datapalooza in Washington, D.C.

Horsham, Pa. – June 3, 2014 – NextGen Healthcare Information Systems, LLC., a wholly owned subsidiary of Quality Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: QSII) and a leading provider of healthcare information systems and connectivity solutions, announced today it now is capable of successfully transmitting clinical care information between disparate technology platforms, thereby achieving vendor agnostic interoperability.

Physicians are increasingly turning to digital tools to achieve outcomes-based incentives, according to an annual market research study published by Manhattan Research.