Providers moving to the cloud at their own pace 

Healthcare CIOs are increasingly looking to cloud storage as physical data centers age and resources shrink, but not all providers and payers are moving at the same pace. A new report by IDC Health Insights can help providers and payers optimize their use of the cloud by offering guidance on developing a cloud strategy that can drive higher return from investments.

For patients with multiple chronic conditions, improving care will be a bipartisan effort

The bipartisan Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 reformed Medicare's payment system to better link payment to quality, as well as incentivize participation in models of care outside of the traditional fee-for-service system. These alternative payment models continue a history of bipartisan work by shifting away from fee-for-service and toward a more efficient system of care.

Study: Real-time electronic symptom reporting helps cancer patients live longer

Patients that electronically reported chemotherapy symptoms to their provider using a tablet or computer lived five months longer than those that reported symptoms during their monthly checkup with their oncologists, according to a study published over the weekend in JAMA.

HHS task force spells out ‘urgent challenge’ of cybersecurity in healthcare

Classifying cybersecurity as a patient safety concern, a long-awaited report by a federal task force identified some of the key cybersecurity vulnerabilities in healthcare and stressed the importance of collaboration between all stakeholders to close those gaps.

Provider groups ask Medicare Advantage be counted as APM under MACRA in 2019

Ten groups, including the American Medical Association, the Medical Group Management Association and the American College of Surgeons, sent a letter to CMS Administrator Seema Verma requesting that Medicare Advantage be treated as an alternative payment model (APM) under MACRA starting in 2019.