A project at Boston Children’s Hospital (BCH) that is seeking to develop technology for an app-driven health information economy now has an advisory committee to advance its strategy, technical approach and business development.

The majority of people use mobile apps on a daily basis to track calorie intake and monitor physical activities, however only 40 percent share such data with their physicians, according to a study from mobile engagement provider Mobiquity.

A broad group of healthcare industry stakeholders involved in the transition to International Classification of Diseases 10th Revision (ICD-10) coding system are urging the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to name Oct. 1, 2015 — the soonest possible date for the transition — as the new date for the change.

Few additional providers will sign up to participate in Medicare’s current Pioneer ACO Model or the Medicare Shared Savings Program unless changes are made to the design of these programs notes the American Hospital Association (AHA) in a letter to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Innovation Center.

Venture capital funding for health IT companies is on the rise in 2014 with $858 million across 163 deals in the first quarter.

Lack of interoperability is the biggest obstacle to information exchange, according to a report compiled by an independent group of scientists advising the federal government.

Chief Information Officers (CIOs) responsibilities have increased dramatically since the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (the HITECH Act) passed in February of 2009, and their compensation is not keeping up finds a survey of more than 200 healthcare executives conducted by search firm, SSi-SEARCH.

The Institute of Medicine’s 2011 report, Patient Safety and Health IT: Building Safer Systems for Better Care, expressed dismay that patient safety hadn’t improved very much since its landmark 1999 study, To Err is Human.