The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation has flipped the switch on its new project and website, Flip the Clinic.

The hope that universal health insurance coverage will move healthcare delivery out of costly care settings like emergency departments (EDs) and into lower-cost primary care settings may not come true unless other barriers to primary care access also are addressed finds a new study.

A sensor placed under a hospital bed that continuously monitors a patient’s heart, respiratory rate and movement was shown to significantly reduce patients’ total length of stay in a hospital and intensive care unit.

Nashville-based Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) announced the launch of its Center for Clinical Quality and Implementation Research, which will investigate clinical quality improvement strategies that address prevention, diagnostics and therapeutics in clinical care as well as the organization of a care delivery system.

With almost 3,000 Michigan doctors joining the Physician Organization of Michigan ACO, the organization now includes 5,700 providers from 12 physician groups based in 22 counties.

Developers of a new app that can turn any smartphone into a portable medical diagnostic device say the tool could help fight disease in the developing world.

The U.S. patient monitoring market—valued at more than $3.5 billion in 2013—will exceed $5.1 billion by 2020, according to a report from iData Research, a global medical device marketing firm.

WellPoint Inc.’s Cerritos, Calif.-based subsidiary CareMore and Atlanta-based Emory Healthcare say they will team up to expand CareMore’s model of care management for Medicare Advantage patients in Georgia.