With the October 2014 compliance date of ICD-10 looming, athenahealth put out a guarantee to its clients on June 5 of its readiness for the requirement and promised to waive its fees in case this guarantee is not met. “Athenahealth will also backstop the revenue cycle for independent practices by providing a cash advance against submitted claims, if those claims are delayed by payers in the ICD-10 transition period,” according to the announcement.

Telemedicine patient monitoring market revenue jumped from $4.2 billion in 2007 to $10 billion in 2012, representing a 237 percent increase, according to a Kalorama Information report, “Advanced Patient Monitoring Systems.”

Health Tech Hatch (HTH), an online, mobile resource that aims to launch early-stage healthcare innovations for patient use, will operate the user testing platform for the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT’s (ONC’s) Blue Button Co-Design Challenge, according to an HTH announcement.

Patient-centered outcomes research is trending this week, along with data transparency and payment adjustment.

The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) and the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation are partnering to lead a cross-departmental effort to identify strategic opportunities for building a comprehensive, interoperable and sustainable data infrastructure for patient-centered outcomes research (PCOR).

“What we are doing wouldn’t have been thought of if Meaningful Use (MU) hadn’t made the progress that it had,” Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) Executive Director Joe Selby, MD, MPH, said in a report to the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT’s (ONC’s) Health IT Policy Committee on June 5.

ATLANTA, June 4, 2013 --  Streamline Health Solutions, Inc. (NASDAQ: STRM), a leading provider of SaaS-based enterprise content management, business analytics, computer assisted coding (CAC) and clinical documentation improvement (CDI) solutions for healthcare providers, announced today that it has entered into a joint marketing agreement with Patientco, the industry's most innovative provider of patient financial engagement solutions, with the intention to increase net revenue for healthcare providers by accelerating patient payments.

To spur innovative health apps, Kaiser Permanente announced the upcoming launch of an application programming interface (API) program—Interchange by Kaiser Permanente—which will contain secure, public datasets for third-party developers, according to the company’s June 3 press release.