Two professional associations have partnered to create a resource kit that addresses healthcare organizations' need for quality assurance programs.

PALO ALTO, Calif.--Tonic Health today announced that it has been selected by Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center to provide an iPad- and web-based patient data collection platform. By leveraging Tonic Health’s innovative and easy-to-use data collection platform, Wake Forest Baptist can more effectively register, screen and manage their patient populations over time.

The California Department of Public Health (CDPH) has launched an Open Data Portal to provide user-friendly access to publicly available information for researchers, clinicians, developers and the public.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology announced the release of the Quality Data Model 4.1.

The final rule that updates Medicare payment policies and rates for inpatient stays at general acute care and long-term care hospitals includes improvements in the quality of care that limit payment for hospital-acquired conditions and readmissions.

Bonnie, a tool designed to support streamlined and efficient pretesting of electronic clinical quality measures used in Meaningful Use, was updated to support new measure formats and logic constructs.

The Department of Health & Human Services has launched VizRisk, its first-ever behavioral health data visualization challenge.

LOS ANGELES, July 22, 2014--Zynx Health™, the market leader in providing evidence- and experience-based clinical improvement solutions, has announced the general availability of Knowledge Analyzer™, a scalable solution that helps organizations quickly realize the full value of electronic health record (EHR) systems.