The Joint Commission has received a sole source contract from the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) to address one of the key recommendations made in the Institute of Medicine report, “Health IT and Patient Safety: Building Safer Systems for Better Care.”  The report called for an independent entity to help identify unsafe health IT conditions that have been associated with serious patient safety events, develop a process for preventing health IT-related adverse events and educate the healthcare field and others about this work.

Several witnesses discussed how the drop in providers combined with the increase in the aging population and chronic disease are driving innovations in mobile health during a Congressional Committee on Small Business hearing focused on mobile health apps.

MADISON, N.J., June 26, 2013 -- Quest Diagnostics (NYSE:DGX), the world's leading provider of diagnostic information services, today announced an agreement with AT&T* to provide the Quest Diagnostics Care360® Solution Suite, including the Care360 electronic health record (EHR) and eprescribing and laboratory order/results services, through AT&T Healthcare Community Online.

The Centers of Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) unveiled a proposed rule governing the financial integrity and oversight standards of health insurance exchanges.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- Humana Inc. (NYSE: HUM) ranks number one in overall performance among U.S. health insurers based on a review of 2012 claims-payment data conducted by athenahealth, Inc. (NASDAQ: ATHN), a leading provider of cloud-based practice-management, Electronic Health Record and care-coordination services to medical groups.

A new accountable care agreement between Aetna and Bon Secours Health System will support 57,000 Medicare beneficiaries in Kentucky, New York, South Carolina and Virginia.

A new report offers four clinical scenarios that could result in use of an emergency department information system contributing to medical errors as well as recommendations to make the systems safer to use.

An updated problem list is part of the Meaningful Use objectives but it can be tricky to maintain—what goes on the list, who updates the list and what are best practices for the best use of problem lists?