This summer nine Master / PhD students from various disciplines travelled to New York, Boston, Portugal, Spain and The Netherlands with the goal to develop new insights into ALS in order to speed up the discovery of therapeutics.

Allscripts and CoverMyMeds have agreed to partner to help patients receive their prescriptions faster and increase the number of health plans available for Allscripts eAuth(TM) software clients.

Merge Healthcare Incorporated (NASDAQ:MRGE), a leading provider of clinical systems and innovations that seek to transform healthcare, was recently recognized as a top vendor in the KLAS 2015 Midterm Performance Review:

Action analytics leader, SPH Analytics, announced their approval by the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services (CMS) to administer the Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (CAHPS) for Physician Quality Reporting System (PQRS) survey, as well as approval to submit PQRS Registry measures to CMS as a qualified reporting vendor.

The Primary Care Development Corporation (PCDC) has launched the Primary Care Innovation Network (PCIN) (www.pcin.org), a new website to help safety net primary care providers improve performance and undertake healthcare transformation initiatives. 

Cerner, a global leader in health care technology, was selected by Denver-based Catholic Health Initiatives (CHI) to implement Cerner ITWorks(SM) health information technology (IT) solutions and services to provide continuity of care across 47 hospitals and multiple clinical settings.

dunnhumby, the world’s leading customer science company, today announced the launch of dunnhumby Health - bringing the industry leading customer science techniques that the company used to transform retail to the U.S. healthcare sector. dunnhumby Health will enable healthcare institutions to deliver more relevant patient and member experiences that build loyalty, improve people’s health, and lower unnecessary costs.

TriCore Reference Laboratories announced today a new strategic partnership with Sunquest Information Systems to jointly develop state-of-the-art diagnostic laboratory software to support population health, precision medicine and integration pathology.