Accountable care organizations see significant potential in clinical analytics and support software, according a recent survey, and ACOs like the Center for Healthcare Innovations, in greater Nashville, are adopting the software as a way to meet complex medical and collaboration problems.

Liaison Healthcare is launching a cloud-based Master Person Index platform that helps providers with meaningful use and health information exchange use cases.

In an effort to increase access to health care for the nation's underserved populations and support the incredible efforts of volunteer physicians, the American Medical Association (AMA) Foundation has awarded 15 physician-led free clinics from across the country with grants ranging from $10,000 to $25,000.

Alere Health, LLC, a leader in personal health support solutions (a division of Alere Inc.), and the largest U.S. provider of specialized, patient-centered health management services, today announced a contract with the Texas Health and Human Services Commission and the Texas Medicaid & Healthcare Partnership (TMHP) to launch statewide programs for Maternity and Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) Care Management for Texas Medicaid fee-for-service clients.

Only about half of U.S. adults received selected preventive services such as screenings, consultations and prescriptions, from a health care professional before 2010, according to a study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Ground-breaking solutions among healthcare organizations anticipate reducing spending by $254 million over three years.

The upcoming presidential election may come down to Colorado, Virginia and Wisconsin, if Stuart Rothenberg is correct. And swing voters everywhere may be too busy watching 'Dancing with the Stars' to make any decisions before autumn.

Accountable care organization models are the most talked about healthcare delivery change being promised by the healthcare reform law. Despite all the talk, the strategies healthcare executives need to enable their organizations to live up to the promise of Medicare and private ACOs remain murky.

Health 2.0 announced today that teams from Zenithech LLC, Avanade Inc. and Big Yellow Star won the Medicare Claims Data Developer Challenge sponsored by IMPAQ International LLC and the National Opinion Research Center (NORC) at the University of Chicago. IMPAQ, a social research and consulting services company, and NORC, a not-for-profit, academic research organization, created the competition to spur development of interactive Internet-based tools to make Medicare claims data more accessible and usable for clinicians, health researchers, consumers, policy-makers, entrepreneurs and others.