CHIME has launched its National Patient ID Challenge, a $1million crowdsourcing competition encouraging innovators to develop a private, accurate and safe solution for identifying patients. CHIME has teamed with HeroX, co-founded in 2013 by XPRIZE CEO Peter Diamandis, to run the year-long competition.

The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT is accepting public comments on the recently released 2016 Interoperability Standards Advisory until March 21.

Health IT venture capital (VC) funding totaled $4.6 billion in 574 deals in 2015, slightly below 2014’s record $4.7 billion in 670 deals, according to a report from Mercom Capitol Group.

Royal Philips and Marin General Hospital (MGH) have launched a $90 million, 15-year partnership to improve healthcare in Marin County, Calif.

Despite being the subject of acquisition rumors, WebMD Health said it is not currently in any negotiations to be acquired.

In the second of a two-part series, Chris Trimble, MBA, the author of How Physicians Can Fix Health Care: One Innovation at a Time, spoke with Clinical Innovation + Technology about how healthcare organizations can innovate to improve patient outcomes.

Healthcare needs innovation based on teams, not technology, according to Chris Trimble, MBA, author of How Physicians Can Fix Health Care: One Innovation at a Time.

More thorough studies are needed to determine the effect health data exchange has on clinical outcomes, according to a study published in the Journal of Medical Internet Research.