Morning Headlines 10/4/17

Argument analysis: An epic day for employers in arbitration case?

Epic’s Supreme Court case is split over whether employers should be able to force employees to sign arbitration clauses as a condition of employment.

Progress In Interoperability: Measuring US Hospitals’ Engagement In Sharing Patient Data

A Health Affairs study of EHR interoperability data from broken down into the sub-domains of finding, sending, receiving, and integrating electronic patient information, concludes that at the end of 2015 only 29.7 percent of acute care hospitals are engaged in all four domains.

2017 HIMSS Congressional Asks

HIMSS asks Congress to elevate the role of HHS CISO to that of the CIO, expand telehealth services, and increase funding needed to implement the 21st Century Cures Act.

Announcing Cityblock: Bringing a new approach to urban health, one block at a time

Alphabet’s Sidewalk Labs unveils Cityblock Health, a neighborhood-level approach to improving care coordination for Medicaid beneficiaries through technology.