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More metrics needed to show true return on health IT investment

With a hefty national deficit and climbing healthcare costs in the U.S., many are looking at innovations in health IT to help rein in costs and improve care.

Weekly roundup: Smorgasbord of developments

This week offered a wide range of advances and developments for a smorgasbord with something for everyone.

Fridsma hosts a hangout

Doug Fridsma, chief scientist, hosted the Office of the National Coordinator of Health IT’s first Google+ Hangout on Feb. 11. He discussed the office’s main activities and plans for continuing to transform healthcare with IT.

HHS, Illinois partner on insurance marketplace

Illinois has been conditionally approved to operate a state partnership marketplace (exchange), which will be ready for open enrollment in October.

Bipartisan Policy Center issues report on IT safety plan

The Bipartisan Policy Center has issued recommendations for the Department of Health and Human Services' proposed health IT safety plan.

CHIME selects Branzell as new president, CEO

The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives' (CHIME) board of trustees has selected Russell P. Branzell to serve as its president and CEO.

ACOs get a formal society

The National Association of Accountable Care Organizations (NAACOS), representing more than 60 ACOs from more than 15 states, is a 501(c)6 nonprofit that will nationally seek to allow ACOs to work together to increase quality of care, lower costs and improve the health of their communities.

KLAS ranks vendors' ICD-10 readiness

A new report from healthcare market research firm KLAS finds that EMR vendors Cerner, Epic and Siemens Healthcare rank highest in their ICD-10 preparedness while Allscripts and MediTech rank the lowest.

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These health systems have the biggest digital health portfolios

U.S. health systems are increasingly leveraging digital health to conduct their operations, but how health systems are using digital health in their strategies can vary widely.

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Toylike robot pleases counseling clients where humanoid counterpart struggles to connect

When human counselors are unavailable to provide work-based wellness coaching, robots can substitute—as long as the workers are comfortable with emerging technologies and the machines aren’t overly humanlike.

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Medsender, Patagonia Health team up to aid public health efforts against COVID-19

A vendor that supplies EHR software to public health agencies is partnering with a health-tech startup in the cloud-communications space to equip state and local governments for managing their response to the COVID-19 crisis.