Molly Merrill
The Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) announced Wednesday the six winners of its 2010 Davies Awards of Excellence, which recognize the use of electronic health records to improve care.
The Physicians Foundation, a national organization that supports the interests of physicians and their patients, announced Tuesday it awarded 15 individual grants in 13 states totaling nearly $2 million for health IT projects that support high quality patient care.
The Electronic Healthcare Network Accreditation Commission (EHNAC), a nonprofit standards development organization and accrediting body, launched its Management Service Organization Accreditation Program (MSOAP) on Tuesday.
The Federation of State Medical Boards (FSMB) says it recognizes that electronic health records could be used by doctors both to improve patient outcomes and assess ongoing clinical competence for purposes of medical licensure.
Saint Luke's Health System (SLHS) in Kansas City, Mo., is boosting its care coordination through an automated ordering process that links its ambulatory physicians with hospital and freestanding reference laboratories, imaging centers and patients.
Cass County Memorial Hospital in Atlantic, Iowa, is in the process of what officials are calling a "big bang" implementation in overhauling their current IT system.
A recent survey of hospitals and other healthcare providers designed to understand the capacity and use of telestroke care in the Northwestern United States found 88 percent of respondents believe their rural communities suffer from a lack of stroke neurologists.
CIOs appear cautiously optimistic about their chances for achieving stimulus funding under the HITECH Act, according to a new poll from the College of Health Information Management Executives (CHIME).
South Shore Hospital in Weymouth, Mass., which reported in July that back-up patient data for approximately 800,000 individuals went missing, has completed its investigation. In light of the findings, officials said they would no longer send out individual notices, instead publishing them on organizations' websites, and in offices and in state newspapers.
The Gulf Coast Regional Extension Center (GCREC) at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) opened its enrollment period for eligible practitioners this week. The goal is to get 2,855 eligible primary healthcare providers in the south region of Texas on board with an EHR in the first year and ensure they're using them in a meaningful way by 2012.