Weill Cornell Medical College has established the Center for Healthcare Informatics and Policy (CHiP) to improve health and healthcare through informatics and technology.

There is early but growing evidence that patient-centered medical homes (PCMHs) have the potential to improve care for individuals, the health of populations and slow the growth in costs of healthcare by reviving primary care and bringing the patient and family to the center of the care-delivery system (ie, achieving the triple aim), according to an article in the March issue of the American Journal of Managed Care.

Patients with gastrointestinal disorders received increasing levels of cumulative radiation exposure from 1999 to 2009, according to a study published in the March issue of Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology. The authors called for the development of evidence-based guidelines for image analysis among this population.

The U.S. National Institutes of Health and Amazon Web Services (AWS), an Amazon.com company, have completed the 1000 Genomes Project, and it is now available on AWS as a publicly available dataset.

Policymakers should begin planning now for ways to make the coming transition to ICD-11 as tolerable as possible for the healthcare and payment community, according to an article in the March edition of Health Affairs.

The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) has released CONNECT version 3.3., an open source health information exchange tool.

Results from a study published March 12 online in the Archives of Internal Medicine demonstrated a relationship between patients website ratings of hospitals and some objective measures of clinical quality, including mortality and infection rates.

The House Energy and Commerce Committee, chaired by Rep. Fred Upton (R-Mich.), has approved the Medicare Decisions Accountability Act (HR 452), which repeals the controversial Independent Payment Advisory Board, passed by voice vote without any recorded opposition.