The Global Center for Health Innovation is holding the Cleveland Medical Hackathon in September. 

Emdeon has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Altegra Health, a national provider of technology and intervention platforms, for $910 million. 

Full-year 2014 financial data is now available on the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Open Payments website to help consumers better understand financial relationships between physicians and drug and medical device companies. 

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has awarded a contract to Data Computer Corporation of America (DCCA), a veteran-owned information technology services company, to provide support to the National Level Repository (NLR), which serves as the central system in the Meaningful Use program.

The National Library of Medicine could become the epicenter for biomedical data science and dramatically expand its activities beyond that of its parent organization, the National Institutes of Health (NIH), according to an advisory committee report to the NIH director.

Press Ganey has introduced the transparency Seal of Integrity, which will be used to assure providers, physicians and patients that patient experience data are scientifically rigorous and objectively presented using a standardized rating system. 

Niall Brennan, chief data officer and director of the Office of Enterprise Data and Analytics at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), is the recipient of the Health Data Consortium's Health Data Liberators Award.

Apervita and Mayo Clinic are partnering to establish a self-service health measures platform.