A national technology company has made a $40,000 donation toward Georgia Institute of Technology's Interoperability & Integration Innovation Lab (I3L), a virtual and physical laboratory for health IT.

DANBURY, Conn.--New approaches for determining how much drugs should cost, and for setting the price for innovative treatments, were highlighted in a keynote presentation by Murray Aitken, IMS Health senior vice president and executive director of the IMS Institute for Healthcare Informatics, at the Forbes Healthcare Summit held earlier this month in New York City.

More than one-third of U.S. consumers are uninformed about patient portals, according to findings in a survey conducted by Xerox.  

The Medicare Shared Savings Programs is growing with 89 new accountable care organizations joining the program.

FDA-funded research by the Kaiser Permanente and Weill Cornell Medical College highlights the importance of registries and unique device identification implementation for post-market surveillance of medical devices.

The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT has published a 53-page guide tailored specifically to implementing telehealth in critical access hospitals and rural areas.

Two developments this week have the potential for big impact in coming months and years, particularly when it comes to interoperability.

McKesson will implement NIMIS within an additional seven hospitals, helping to transform radiology services across Ireland