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Health 2.0 and ONC on Monday launched competitions to develop new health IT apps aimed at easing the transition from hospital to home and reporting medical device adverse events.The competitions, which are now open for submissions, are part of the Investing in Innovation Initiative (i2) and are managed by Health 2.0 through its Health 2.0 Developer Challenge program.

More than 150 primary care physicians in Pennsylvania will soon have access to their patients' health plan-based information through their smartphones, enabling them to keep track of prescriptions and receive important clinical alerts at the point of care.

The Mayo Clinic has created a Healthy Aging and Independent Living (HAIL) Lab, aiming to pilot new services and technologies from companies such as Best Buy, which was announced as the "founding consortium member" of the clinic on Monday.The Mayo Clinic Center for Innovation is collaborating with Mayo Clinic's Robert and Arlene Kogod Center for Aging and the Charter House, a continuing care retirement community in Rochester, in creating the HAIL Lab to support "aging in place" - helping seniors remain at home, healthy and independent.