iBlue Button is a mobile longitudinal health record available at every point of care, said Bettina Experton, MD, MPH, CEO of Humetrix, speaking at the AMDIS 22nd Annual Physician-Computer Connection Symposium in Ojai, Calif.

Twenty-three central and south Georgia hospitals and healthcare systems and about 1,500 physicians are forming a not-for-profit alliance—Stratus Healthcare—to develop a clinically-integrated network.

Members of the federal government shared thoughts on the recently announced health IT safety plan and the qualities of a transformative CMIO during their talk at the AMDIS 22nd Annual Physician-Computer Connection Symposium in Ojai, Calif., on June 26.

Managing the shift of reimbursement models with payers topped the list of challenges reported in a recent survey by Wolter Kluwer Health, which tallied the views of 300 practicing physicians in the fields of primary care, family medicine and internal medicine.

Data governance and discipline are keys to building a modern, maximally efficient enterprise business intelligence (EBI) platform for health care. The actual technology must be secondary to the organizational activities that go into building an EBI platform designed to serve the business information needs of the organization. The data, not the technology, should be the point of control.

Change isn’t easy, especially when it affects how much you are paid for services rendered. But the writing on the wall is clear: the fee-for-service model, especially for Medicare patients, is slowly but surely disappearing into the Affordable Care Act sunset. What’s a physician to do: work more and get paid less?

PHILADELPHIA, July 22, 2013 -- RightCare Solutions, Inc., an evidence-based technology organization specializing in hospital care transitions and readmission management, announced today that a pivotal study examining the impact of RightCare Solutions' D2S2 care transitions software platform on all-cause 30-day readmissions met its primary endpoint showing a 29% reduction in all-cause 30-day readmission rates in the intervention group.  Consistent with the data reported in previous studies, reductions were seen in high-risk patients at all three hospitals that participated in the study.  Full results will be presented in upcoming presentations and publications.  This study was conducted in partnership with the University of Pennsylvania Health System with the goal of improving care coordination and reducing readmissions.  The partnership with RightCare Solutions included the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Penn Presbyterian Medical Center, and Pennsylvania Hospital.  By leveraging D2S2, the health system's staff of nurses, clinical resource coordinators, and social workers utilized evidence-based point-of-care software to improve and enhance patient outcomes.

Forecasts on the global mHealth market reveal cost savings of up to $36 billion from remote patient monitoring over the next five years.