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Cook Children’s Health Care System, a not-for-profit, pediatric healthcare organization based in Fort Worth, Texas, is partnering with athenahealth and Microsoft to launch a new national clinical platform that aims at improving care for pediatric patients.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services announced it has posted new ratings on 4,000 hospitals on its “Hospital Compare” Web site, including new mortality and readmission data.
Hospitals have seen a decrease in EMR adoption in states where privacy laws restrict their ability to disclose patient information, according to a study published in the journal Management Science.
Mississippi officials are hopeful that the state’s trauma care registry is “back, alive and growing” following passage of a bill aimed at improving participation in and funding for the registry.
The goal for Hello Health is to create an online network and tools that empower doctors all across America to have the freedom to simply practice high quality medicine.
Ultimately, healthcare reform requires a comprehensive approach and should be treated with national urgency, specific targets and sustained commitments. One aspect of the necessary transformation that is clear today is enabling greater collaboration in the delivery of care.
A recent article in The Washington Post , headlined “Frequent Fliers’ Add Billions to Hospital Bills,” discusses the frequent flier phenomenon – a condition of our healthcare system that I have been tracking closely for some time.
Measure twice, cut once. It’s an old standby maxim that carpenters use to remind themselves to double check their measurements lest they waste a valuable piece of wood.
The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine will offer a new degree program in informatics this September.
At the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT’s HIT Policy Committee Certification and Adoption Workgroup meeting July 14, there was the usual bantering and expectations about meaningful use. But above the cacophony, I heard something not usually spoken. And it came from someone who ought to know.