The global health information exchange market is expected to jump from $558 million in 2013 to $878 million by 2018, according to a report from research firm MarketsandMarkets.

Aetna and Atlantic Accountable Care Organization (Atlantic ACO), a partner of Atlantic Health System, announced a new accountable care agreement designed to improve the coordination and delivery of patient care for more than 28,000 patients in six New Jersey counties.

The National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) is updating its standards for Patient-Centered Medical Home Recognition, as concern grows that the standards focus too heavily on structural elements of medical homes and not enough on outcomes.

The Federal Communications Commission launched a new mhealth task force, CONNECT2HEALTHFCC, that will look at ways of accelerating adoption of healthcare technologies.

The New York eHealth Collaborative and the Partnership Fund for New York City is seeking applications for the second class of the New York Digital Health Accelerator.

Lowering unnecessary hospital readmission rates is an often cited solution to the problem of high U.S. health care costs. However, to effectively do so, the health care system needs to reward all stakeholders for collaborating, not just punish hospitals for unnecessary readmissions, a new report finds.

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The patient-centered medical home model seems to make intuitive sense as a way to reduce waste in health care. Therefore, it came as a shock to many when the Journal of the American Medical Association published research showing that adopting this model actually didn’t make much of a difference in costs or outcomes.