Bernie Monegain
Fueled by efforts to reduce acute and long-term care costs, the U.S. patient monitoring market is expected to reach almost $4 billion by 2017, according to a new report by iDataResearch, a global research and consulting firm.
Ten U.S. hospitals and healthcare systems have partnered with the Joint Commission Center for Transforming Healthcare to end potentially deadly breakdowns in communication that occur during the hand-off of patients from one caregiver to another. Among their recommendations: Identify new and existing technologies to 'hardwire' into the system.
Aided by its electronic health record system, Kaiser Permanente of Georgia has the highest breast cancer-screening rate for eligible women ages 42 to 69 among the health plans reporting to the National Committee on Quality Assurance (NCQA).
Greenway Medical Technologies, a developer of electronic health record technology for physician practices, has acquired imaging technology and certain other assets from VisualMED, an imaging conversion and communications firm. The terms of the deal were not disclosed.
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) will pay Ogilvy Public Relations Worldwide to build a marketing campaign around comparative effectiveness research.
Michigan hospitals reduced surgical complications by nearly 10 percent at a time when the rest of the nation saw no change in complication rates, according to a new study in the Archives of Surgery. The study showed that sharing ideas and data, and using technology to evaluate the data, proved effective.
Reduced prices and improved quality are boosting the adoption of telemedicine videoconferencing systems, according to new analysis from research and consulting firm Frost & Sullivan.
Health information exchanges can help solve problems that plague the healthcare system, an executive with one of the country's oldest community health information exchanges told attendees at the National Regional Extension Center/Health Information Exchange Summit West in San Francisco on Oct. 5.
The Collins Center for Public Policy examines the impact of the federal government's economic stimulus funding on Florida's healthcare system in a new report that also offers recommendations on how best to improve care.
Information technology and data mining capabilities had a role in dismantling what authorities are calling the largest Medicare fraud scheme ever, involving 73 members and associates of organized crime and more than $163 million in fraudulent billing.