Susan Morse

Huron Consulting Group announced Tuesday it has acquired MyRounding, a firm specializing in digital health solutions to standardize, automate and track nurse and staff rounding activity.

To become a reality, the promise of patient engagement requires good data, communication, transparency, quality measures, and most importantly, listening to the patient's goals, according to experts interviewed Tuesday by The Hill's Bob Cusack and Sarah Ferris.

The Arizona Department of Health Services is reaching out to local doctors to ask them to monitor patients with the disease symptoms.

The Boston Public Health Commission has confirmed that a man in Boston has been infected with the Zika virus and is expected to recover.

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services on Thursday said it will begin taking regional differences into account when measuring the performance of accountable care organizations in the Medicare Shared Savings program, one of several changes announced to the benchmark guidelines in the program.

The World Health Organization will hold an International Health Regulations Emergency Committee meeting on February 1 to determine whether the outbreak and spread of the Zika virus across constitutes a public health emergency of international concern.

Hospitals in Medicaid expansion states fare better financially than those in states that have not adopted the Affordable Care Act initiative, according to an attorney who formerly directed the Medicaid program for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.

With the final January 31 deadline for open enrollment looming, close to 9 million consumers have signed up for healthcare coverage through the marketplace, according to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.

Health insurer Centene on Tuesday said the loss of six hard drives with health info in 950,000 beneficiaries was a result of an employee error.

Hospital groups and other stakeholders have spoken out against a proposal that would cut 10 percent in payments from the Medicare Part B drug pricing program. It's now up to Congress to decide whether to implement the change recommended this month by the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission.