Knight Foundation is teaming with other organizations to offer a challenge competition that will offer $2 million for innovative use of health data to improve the population health of communities.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has added three new frequently asked questions relating to clinical quality measures specifications under the EHR Meaningful Use program.

The International Health Terminology Standards Development Organisation (IHTSDO) and the Regenstrief Institute have signed an agreement—effective for a minimum of 10 years— to begin cooperative work linking their global healthcare terminologies, Logical Observation Identifiers Names and Codes (LOINC) and SNOMED clinical terms.

Hospitals enrolled in the American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program (ACS NSQIP) experienced significantly lower mortality rates for surgical patients compared to non-ACS NSQIP hospitals, according to a recent study.

Universities and many governments will now have free access to 2011 data from the HIMSS Analytics database, the Dorenfest Institute for Health Information Technology, Research and Education, managed by the HIMSS Foundation.

Weymouth, MA, July 10, 2013 -- Beacon Partners, a leading healthcare management consulting firm, and Information Builders, a leader in business intelligence (BI) and analytics, information integrity, and integration solutions, today announced the formation of a strategic business partnership. Information Builders provides healthcare organizations with a complete BI and analytics solution – and has now added Beacon Partners as an integral component in this effort. Beacon Partners will help its customers leverage Information Builders software to meet the integration, intelligence, and data integrity challenges of electronic medical records (EMR), clinical transformation, and consumer engagement.

A new report released by the Department of Health and Human Services offers up details on the latest implementation activities by the private and public sectors to meet the goals of the National Strategy for Quality Improvement (National Quality Strategy).

The proposed rule setting the physician fee schedule and payment policies for Medicare Part B in 2014 includes 29 new quality measures that physicians must report on in 2014 when participating in the group practice reporting option of the Physician Quality Reporting System.