FICO, a Minneapolis-based developer of analytics and decision management technology, has acquired CR Software, a developer of enterprise collections and recovery technologies for credit issuers, government organizations, collection agencies, retailers and healthcare providers.

The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has taken advantage of its resources to launch the Million Veterans Program, a “mega-database” that will hold genomic and clinical information for future studies about veterans who receive their care from the VA and who volunteer to participate in the program.

State prescription drug monitoring programs can help reduce prescription drug abuse but there is room for improvement, according to a report prepared by MITRE for the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT, in partnership with the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration.

KBCore, which developed and submitted for consideration a suite of unified web and mobile apps to collect and analyze event reports, was announced the winner of the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT’s Patient Safety Reporting System Challenge.

McKesson and the Health Care Incentives Improvement Institute (HCI3) have entered an agreement to combine the McKesson Episode Management software with HCI3’s Prometheus Payment model.

Little evidence is available to adequately assess measures for evaluating quality improvement outcomes among disabled people, according to a new report from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.

Searching for Alzheimer's disease biomarkers can be improved through the use of text mining, according to U.K. researchers. In a study published in the Journal of Translational Medicine, the authors were able to identify 25 biomarker candidates via the data mining of publicly available databases, and say the practice could be applied to other disorders.

The National Quality Forum (NQF) has endorsed six new behavioral health quality measures and reaffirmed its support for four existing measures related to substance abuse, adherence to antipsychotic medication and post-discharge care coordination for patients hospitalized for mental illness.