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The Integrated Research Network, a collaborative research community slated to launch this summer, will allow physicians to weigh in on comparative effectiveness research.
The relaxation of the Stark Law enables hospitals to bear up to 85 percent of the cost of electronic health record implementation for community physician offices. Despite the generous subsidy, cost is still a barrier for many physicians, according to some experts.
Clinical decision support is emerging as a way for providers to cut costs and improve quality of care during an econmic recession.
Information technology has been recognized as a key driver in an initiative that examines innovation in family medicine residency training.
The Cardinal Health Foundation awarded $1 million in grant funding for new IT-related programs to improve patient safety at 35 hospitals, health systems and community health clinics across the country.
Intermountain Healthcare in Salt Lake City and Geisinger Health in rural Philadlephia took the spotlight last month when President Barack Obama included them in a talk he gave in Green Bay, Wis.
New financial and regu-latory changes have opened the door for rapid growth emerging market of infection control software, according to forecasts from Orem, Utah-based research firm KLAS. But an organization of hospital infection control personnel says hospitals don’t have the money.
A Seattle-based company that has built and is operating 13 hospitals in Asia is poised to grow by 18 more in Malaysia, India and Vietnam by the end of 2011, and it could serve as inspiration across the United States on how to do more with less.
Recently I attented the Tenth Annual Innovation 2009 Conference in California. One of the issues garnering a lot of attention was the notion that the Obama healthcare reform plan could ultimately wind up creating a government-run insurer.
The demand for new and more advanced IT systems has never been greater.