The Department of Health and Human Services has allocated 1 percent of its overall budget to cloud computing, which has been hailed as an option for significant cost savings.

Former ONC head Farzad Mostashari, MD, MSc, penned a New York Times op-ed, along with Bob Kocher, MD, former special assistant to President Obama on healthcare and economic policy, making a case for the Affordable Care Act successfully lowering healthcare costs and delivering better care.

SANTA MONICA, September 18, 2014 – Wells Fargo Capital Finance, part of Wells Fargo & Company (NYSE: WFC), announced that their Healthcare Finance portfolio surpassed $1 billion with the recent $100 million credit facility for Apria Healthcare Group, Inc., a portfolio company of The Blackstone Group. Apria is one of the nation's leading providers of home respiratory services and certain home medical equipment.

Health IT professionals earn a mean salary of $89,879.43 with 30 percent earning an average bonus of $13,100.52, according to the 2014 HealthITJobs.com Salary Report.

Consumers who utilize internet-based cost transparency tools are more likely to choose physicians designated as high quality, according to a study from Strategic Insights Group on behalf of UnitedHealthcare.

Doug Fridsma, MD, PhD, chief science officer in the Office of the National Coordinator of Health IT, is leaving the agency to become president and CEO of the American Medical Informatics Association.

Defensive medicine, which is care delivered in response to a fear of malpractice lawsuits, accounted for about 28 percent of tests, procedures and hospitalizations at three hospitals, according to a study published in JAMA Internal Medicine.

This was the ninth annual Health IT Week and it was full of activity—from dueling legislation for Meaningful Use to launches of innovation centers and venture funds and calls for patient engagement and improved privacy and security efforts with new breaches to back the need.