Despite the sunny days and warm breezes, it feels like the calm before a storm.We’re edging up to the one-year mark until there will be just one year left until the October 1, 2014 ICD-10 implementation deadline. Can you hear the clock ticking?

Healthcare providers could reduce costs by nine percent or $11 billion over the next three years through the adoption of IT-as-a-service models, according to a report by the public-private partnership MeriTalk and EMC. The findings are based on a survey of 109 members of the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME).

In the latest major acquisition, Tenet Healthcare announced that it will acquire Vanguard Health Systems for $21 per share in an all cash transaction.

Urban families of pediatric patients reported high access to digital technology and the majority expressed interest in receiving healthcare information digitally, according to a study in the July issue of Pediatrics.

Although long-term care providers are not eligible for the Meaningful Use program, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) has a new web page designed to help them benefit from other federal initiatives to accelerate health IT adoption.

Mobile health was the big topic in this week's news with a survey indicating greater acceptance of mobile health monitoring among the American public and a new call for a federal office devoted to wireless health.

Will a key provision of healthcare reform—the establishment of health insurance exchanges—be ready to go by the fall 2013 deadline?

DALLAS, June 20, 2013 -- The Report "North American Healthcare IT Market, By Application [Provider IT (EMR, PACS, CPOE, CDSS, RCM, Claims Management, Payroll), Payer IT (CRM, Fraud Detection)], Delivery Mode (On-Premises, Web-Based Services & Cloud Computing) & Component - Forecasts to 2017", analyzes and studies the major market drivers, restraints, and opportunities in U.S. and Canada.