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The deal helps the Connecticut-based insurance giant build a mobile technology platform that enables real-time communication between consumers, physicians and payers. For iTriage, it's proof that an ACO will only succeed if the consumer is engaged and informed.

The new initiative, formed by the Disruptive Women in Health Care blogging group, is looking for innovative health and wellness ideas from outside the healthcare industry -- and in doing so redefining the concept of "healthcare"

Axial Exchange, which develops interoperability technologies based on an open-infrastructure platform, has won the "Ensuring Safe Transitions from Hospital to Home" initiative, sponsored by Health 2.0 and the Department of Health and Human Services' Partnership for Patients Initiative.

With the proposed $995 million purchase of Seattle-based SonoSite, FujiFilm looks to expand into the portable ultrasound market, which is seeing double-digit growth in the emergency medicine, orthopedics and home-based care fields.