European health IT regions have set up Health-Ties, a consortium to encourage research-driven clusters of universities, research centers, companies and regional authorities.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has awarded $727 million to 143 community health centers across the country to address pressing construction and renovation needs and expand access to quality healthcare. The funds are the first in a series of awards that will be made available to community health centers under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.

Susan Okie, MD, offered a comprehensive overview of ongoing and planned changes within the FDA, in a perspective published Oct. 7 in the New England Journal of Medicine. The review comes as the FDAs commissioner, Margaret Hamburg, MD, completes her first year as the agencys leader.

Telehealthcare interventions are unlikely to result in clinically relevant improvements in health outcomes in those with relatively mild asthma, but they may have a role in those with more severe disease who are at high risk of hospital admission, according an October study published in the Cochrane Library.

According to gurus who think about such conundrums, there are two approaches to possessions: you can own them, or they can own you. The same axiom applies to imaging data.

The College of the Bahamas in Nassau has signed a memorandum of understanding that established the Bahamas Health Sciences Library Consortium; a collaboration with the Ministry of Health, the Public Hospitals Authority of the Bahamas and the University of the West Indies-School of Clinical Medicine and Research in the Bahamas.

Drummond Group, under its Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT authorized testing and certification body program, has posted its tested and certified EHR products on the Department of Health and Human Services' Certified Health IT Products Listing.

The American Medical Group Association (AMGA) convened teams from 22 medical groups and organized systems of care last week at the inaugural meeting of the Accountable Care Organization (ACO) Development Collaborative.