Bernie Monegain
Healthcare IT leaders are hailing President Obama's nomination of Donald Berwick, MD, to lead the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services as a signal of the administration's commitment to quality.
Revenues from remote patient monitoring using mobile networks will rise to almost $1.9 billion globally by 2014, according to Juniper Research.
Standards organization Health Level Seven International is urging the United Sates to move full speed ahead with its programs for the voluntary certification of health information technology – with what the group calls "reasonable and important modifications."
Twenty health plans, clearinghouses, providers and health information technology vendors have achieved or will certify their implementation of the CAQH Committee on Operating Rules for Information Exchange (CORE) Phase II rules.
The use of bar-code technology with an electronic medication administration record (eMAR) substantially reduces errors, including potential drug-related adverse events, according to a new study at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston.
Information technology helps top-performing hospitals around the country adhere to the measures that define excellence on all fronts, say CIOs who work for some of the best. Thomson Reuters released on March 29 its annual study identifying the 100 top U.S. hospitals based on their overall organizational performance.
The Children's Hospital at Montefiore will deploy new technology to provide interactive patient care throughout the 130-bed facility.
The North Hawaii Community Hospital, the Hawaii IPA, independent physicians, and some of the region's leading payers and trading partners are building a connected health care community.
By 2013, the shipments of home-use telehealth devices, such as digital blood-glucose meters and pulse oximeters, will top 2 million, according to a new report from InMedica, the medical research division of IMS Research.
Researchers at Children's Hospital Boston and Harvard Medical School will take the lead on development of a new healthcare information technology platform – inspired by the iPhone.