The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has selected iPatientCare, a Woodbridge, N.J.-based medical informatics company, as a Qualified Physician Quality Reporting System registry that is authorized to assist eligible providers with reporting quality data directly to CMS.

LOUISVILLE, Ky.--For the second year in a row, Humana Inc. (NYSE: HUM) was ranked as the number one company for its ease of doing business with providers. Humana ranked number one in overall performance among 148 U.S. health insurers based on a review of 2013 claims-payment data conducted by athenahealth, Inc. (NASDAQ: ATHN).

The Medical Informatics World Conference was a great source of knowledge from the field and those who have put analytics at the top of their IT priority list.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has made available the annual update of the 2014 electronic clinical quality measures for eligible professionals and corresponding specifications for electronic reporting.

In conjunction with the Health Datapalooza annual conference this week in Washington, D.C., the Department of Health and Human Services has released new data and tools tailored to increase transparency.

EHR 2.0 is the idea that once certified EHR technology is implemented, a healthcare delivery organization can begin to reap the kind of knowledge and actionable information from its vast stores of data that bend the cost curve and make a real impact on patient outcomes.

It’s been used in other industries for years, and now healthcare is using data mining to identify high-cost patients with similar characteristics, improve quality and manage costs. Growing efforts to dig into big data are yielding more insight into one of the most challenging and complex diseases: cancer.

Dashboards are emerging as valuable tools for tracking performance measures and other efforts related to quality of care.