BOSTON—High-risk patients with comorbidities more often than not have mental health conditions, and several initiatives are underway to integrate behavioral health and primary care to more effectively treat these patients, according to speakers at the 2014 Center for Connected Health Symposium on Oct. 23.

BOSTON—When startups’ “fail fast” philosophy is obstructed by healthcare organizations’ “can’t fail" culture, innovation falls by the wayside, according to speakers at the 2014 AMDIS Fall Symposium.

BOSTON—Since OpenNotes first was implemented in Boston, rural Pennsylvania and Seattle in 2010, the number of patients with access to their notes has swelled from 19,000 to nearly 4.5 million as more organizations join the movement, according to speakers at the 2014 AMDIS Fall Symposium.

BOSTON—Is the concept of an innovation center outmoded? That was the idea posed by Sachin Jain, MD, MBA, chief medical information and innovation officer at Merck and Company, who spoke during a session at the 2014 AMDIS Fall Symposium.