Two National Institutes of Health organizations plan to award funding for mobile health tools that help with the treatment and self-management of chronic diseases among underserved populations.

Hearst Corporation’s healthcare group, Hearst Health, has acquired CareInSync, a software solutions company providing a real-time, mobile platform to improve patient care by enhancing communications between providers and patients. Financial terms were not disclosed.

Despite high hopes that Denise Buenning, acting deputy director for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Office of E-Health Standards and Services, would use her appearance at the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) conference in Washington, D.C., as a platform for revealing the new ICD-10 implementation date, the conference ended Wednesday with no further information from CMS on when the actual switch would happen.

Minneapolis-based Allina Health’s division of applied research has published a study on its use of one health information exchange (HIE) tool that indicates that even when a HIE is used in a relatively limited fashion, it can help improve care.

Google is seeking patents that detail ways to fit a camera into a contact lens without dramatically increasing its thickness.

Healthcare providers in Georgia are leveraging interoperability and portability of health information to improve population health outcomes and reduce historical disparities in care.

San Francisco, CA, April 22, 2014 -- In December 2012, 37 Health Center Controlled Networks (HCCN) were awarded more than $18 million to expand the use of heath information technology. Now, one of those networks, the Health Federation of Philadelphia (HFP), is proudly sharing its progress. The organization partnered with i2i Systems, a leading population health management (PHM) solution provider that is also the PHM solution of choice for 12 other HCCNs.

Dublin, Ohio, April 23, 2014 – Updox, the industry leader for physician connectivity and CRM solutions for health care, announced the organization became a founding member of Carequality, a new initiative dedicated to accelerating progress in health data exchange among multi-platform networks, healthcare providers, electronic health record (EHR) vendors and health information exchange (HIE) vendors.