Clinical

Nearly 100 hospitals were singled out by The Leapfrog Group this week for performing at the highest levels of quality and safety: lower infection rates, higher high-risk procedure survival rates, shorter lengths of stay and fewer readmissions.

Manipal Hospitals' corporate and teaching facilities in Bangalore, India, will be rolling out IBM's Watson for Oncology, a platform trained by Memorial Sloan Kettering.

Thomas Hill Ph.D, Executive Director for Analytics for Dell Statistica Software, explains how historical data can be used to predict risk and how it applies to clinical settings.

Daniel "Danny" Sands, MD, Assistant Professor at Harvard School of Medicine, talks about participatory medicine at the 2015 Patient Engagement Summit in San Diego, CA.

Douglas Van Daele, CMIO and Associate Director at University of Iowa Healthcare, explains the changes his organization underwent to achieve the 2015 Davies Award from HIMSS.

The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia will employ software from PeraHealth to improve clinician awareness of children who may be at risk for clinical deterioration while in the hospital.

AHIMA CEO Lynne Thomas Gordon says she's confident the transition that begins Thursday will go off with few, if any, glitches. As she sees it, all of healthcare will be better for it.

Patients are growing weary of having to carry their records from one provider to the next and many are evaluating whether or not doctors use technologies to communicate with them when choosing a new physician.

As part of the Transforming Clinical Practice Initiative, HHS will dole out $685 million more to help health networks, group practices and other providers drive IT-enabled care coordination, quality improvement and cost reduction.

A group of individuals has slapped two D.C. hospitals with a class action lawsuit, alleging that their charges for requesting medical records -- ranging from $1,168 to $2,500 -- violate state and federal regulations.