The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT  released a paper that describes its "vision for advancing the use of health IT to support transformational improvement in healthcare quality and value," according to a post on the Health IT Buzz blog.

Scottsdale, AZ – November 6, 2014 – Orion Health, a population health management company, today announced the opening of its new development center in Scottsdale, Arizona. The Orion Health ‘Center of Excellence’ will serve as the company’s North American research and solution center, supporting big data analytics technology development, focused on providing decision support to clinicians and patients, and solution support for clients’ population health initiatives.

By applying simple algorithms to EMR data, researchers can identify cases of undiagnosed diabetes, according to a study published in CMAJ Open.

BOSTON— The fee-for-service model continues to dominate, but an increasing number of organizations are plunging into more risk-based payment schemes.

BOSTON—The digital health revolution will happen this decade, Aneesh Chopra, co-founder and executive vice president of Hunch Analytics and former U.S. chief technology officer, told an audience at the Digital Healthcare Innovation Summit.

With penalties hitting the bottom line of providers, many are looking to the vast potential of predictive analytics to help them provide the right care to the right patients to reduce those 30-day readmissions deemed unnecessary.

Meaningful Use has received the bulk of the health IT headlines in recent weeks thanks to the hardship exception, concerns about low Stage 2 attestation rates, calls for greater interoperability and fears about Stage 3 requirements.

Data are being generated at an astounding rate, with an estimated 50,000-fold increase by 2020 that will result in 25,000 terabytes of data, said Visha Agrawal, MD, president of Harris Healthcare Solutions, during a panel discussion at Cleveland Clinic’s 2014 Medical Innovation Summit.