Molly Merrill
The RAND Corporation has launched an online tool that provides policymakers and interested parties with a resource to help understand and evaluate the effects of healthcare reform.
A report from the National Research Council says efforts aimed at the nationwide deployment of HIT will not be sufficient to achieve medical leaders' vision of healthcare in the 21st Century and may even set back the cause.
Johns Hopkins University's Wilmer Eye Institute will use real-time reminders to conduct a clinical trial on patient adherence and clinical outcomes for people with glaucoma.
The University HealthSystem Consortium (UHC) an alliance of 103 academic medical centers and 191 of their affiliated hospitals, has signed a three-year agreement extending radio frequency identification to all its members in the United States.
Michigan CardioVascular Institute, a Saginaw, Mich.-based group practice of cardiologists and heart surgeons, is poised to implement an electronic health records and practice management system in preparation for a pay-for-performance environment.
Health Level Seven (HL7), a healthcare IT standards development organization, has passed the American National Standards Institute (ANSI)-approved standard that specifies basic functional requirements for child healthcare in an electronic health record system.
Excela Health, a non-profit healthcare network serving western Pennsylvania, will implement an electronic health record system for the more than 115 physicians in Excela Health Physician Practices (EHPP).
A New England Journal of Medicine article by a Stanford physician urges medical schools against letting technology take the place of bedside skills.
According to a new study, veterans with chronic conditions who are provided with home health technology from the Department of Veterans Affairs are better able to manage their health and avoid hospitalization.
Brain scan technology developed by scientists at UCLA is set to help diagnose brain aging before symptoms appear, researchers say.