Three-quarters (73 percent) of surveyed hospital executives completely or somewhat agreed that providers need to immediately begin shifting their focus from volume to value, according to a white paper from Forbes Insights.

For people with long-term conditions, remote patient monitoring can reduce deaths and help patients avoid the need for emergency hospital care, according to findings published in the British Medical Journal.

The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center announced that a computer containing patient and research information was stolen from a physicians home on April 30. The physician notified the local police department.

In October 2009, I walked into the renovated industrial warehouse turned office space to begin a new career as a medical journalist at TriMed Media Group, the parent company of CMIO. Newly minted with a masters degree in public administration, I was eager to build my skills reviewing scholarly literature and researching public policy regarding health IT.

The Supreme Court justices today voted to keep the individual mandate as a tax in a 5 to 4 decision in the ruling of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA). According to the Supreme Court blog, the entire PPACA is upheld, with the exception that the federal government has the power to terminate states' Medicaid funds.

Exposure to tablet devices may alter programmable shunt valve settings, based on the results of research published June 26 in the Journal of Neurosurgery: Pediatrics.

The Alaska Department of Health and Social Services, the state Medicaid agency, has agreed to pay the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services $1.7 million to settle possible violations of the HIPAA Security Rule. Alaska DHSS has also agreed to take corrective action to properly safeguard the electronic protected health information of their Medicaid beneficiaries.

While physicians can mend patients and help their conditions improve, they cannot guarantee that patients will take their pills after hospital discharge. However, a perspective published online June 20 in the New England Journal of Medicine outlined a strategy that may help remedy the notion of medication nonadherenceautomated hovering.