A temporary patch that delayed cuts in Medicare reimbursement expired on April 1, threatening to take a bite from fees paid to physicians. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services saved the day—for you, perhaps, but maybe even more for the Senate.

Providers and health plans potentially could save $8 billion each year if they fully adopted electronic information transactions, according to a report from the Council for Affordable Quality Healthcare.

An analysis of eight popular EHRs found none of their user interfaces had optimal graphing displays of laboratory test results.

Multisite patient-centered disease management may not be able to compete with the level of care patients already receive at Veterans Affairs medical centers. At one year, cardiomyopathy scores for heart failure patients in an intervention arm were no better than those getting usual care.

In a recent report, the American Hospital Association expressed concerns with the Hospital Readmission Reduction Program, which penalizes hospitals when some patients are readmitted.

As healthcare evolves into a more value-based system, physicians are increasingly taking the reins as leaders within healthcare systems, using their clinical background to direct stronger patient-centric care.

Qualcomm Life, Inc., a subsidiary of Qualcomm Incorporated (NASDAQ: QCOM), and AMC Health, a privately held provider of ‘real-time’ patient management solutions, today announced a collaborative effort to accelerate the transformation of chronic care and population health management by significantly enhancing connectivity and care coordination for at-risk patients, specifically those with heart failure, hypertension, diabetes, asthma or COPD, in a cost-effective manner. The companies will integrate Qualcomm Life’s 2net™ Connectivity Platform with AMC Health’s CareConsole care coordination platform.

The National Institutes of Health has selected three new proof-of-concept hubs to help speed the translation of basic biomedical discoveries into commercial products, such as new drugs, devices, and diagnostics, to improve patient care and enhance health. The hubs are part of the NIH-supported Research Evaluation and Commercialization Hubs (REACH) program and will be funded at $9 million over three years.