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MONAHRQ enables healthcare organizations to create a customized Web site for reporting healthcare quality data to the public.
Grants to the 45 community healthcare networks in 27 states will foster collaboration among small groups of clinics.
HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced Thursday $83.9 million in grants to 45 organizations to help networks of health centers adopt electronic health records and other health information technology systems.
The Department of Health and Human Services will share its community and population health data with technology innovators and public health officials in the hope that they will use it to create new applications and tools to improve the health of Americans.
The Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein, based in São Paulo, is making strides to better manage its medical equipment, while at the same time improving patient-physician time with the use of asset tracking technology.
The Arkansas Children's Hospital Research Institute will use a five-year, $2.2 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to explore whether school-based telemedicine sessions with doctors can help students in rural areas control their asthma.
A new government demonstration project will bring together Medicare, private insurers and states to improve primary care and reduce costs, with healthcare information technology as an underpinning.
Microsoft Bing and Google have launched separate health maps that aim at making community healthcare data more transparent for consumers so they can make healthier decisions.
Officials of HIMSS Analytics, the not-for-profit subsidiary of the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS), announced Wednesday they will be adding new questions to their annual study on meaningful use to gauge hospitals' readiness.
HHS secretary vows to 'put our public health data to work' in project to open up access to agency's statistical databases.