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As federal lawmakers prepare to increase the use of performance measures to improve quality of care, the American College of Surgeons (ACS) National Surgical Quality Improvement Program has recognized Mayo Clinic's Rochester Methodist and Saint Mary's hospitals as having exemplary outcomes for surgical patient care.
The U.S. Department of Defense Military Health System is planning to deploy a diagnostic decision support system across 75 major military hospitals and 461 clinics worldwide.
Blessing Hospital, a not for profit hospital in Quincy, Ill., is using information technology to improve its revenue cycle management.
eClinicalWorks, which recently struck a deal with Wal-Mart to sell its electronic medical records software, is the subject of a new report from KLAS, which examines the Wesborough, Mass.-based healthcare IT firm's rapid rise.
The people behind Paperfree Tampa Bay foresee the $18 million initiative as President Barack Obama's vision made good. They have set their sights for the 10-county, 8,000-physician e-prescribing pilot launched Monday on no less than 100 percent adoption. They'll achieve it, they say, by going to physicians door-to-door and providing the help they need to get on board.
HIMSS Analytics, a subsidiary of the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society, will recognize 15 hospitals with its first Stage 7 Award at the HIMSS Annual Conference next month in Chicago.
By posting wait times for its area emergency rooms, the New Orleans-based Ochsner Health System is striving to become more transparent, officials say.
The Rochester RHIO, the New York area's regional health information organization, has automated access to patient images for participating healthcare institutions.
The Detroit Medical Center is touting its 100 percent medication verification system in the wake of actor Dennis Quaid's March 10 appearance on "The Oprah Winfrey Show" to discuss medication safety.
Back on firm footing after last year's bankruptcy filing and sale, MedAvant Healthcare Solutions has announced a name change.