Quality and Safety
A bill introduced last week seeks to provide greater legal protection to Medicare and Medicaid providers that use electronic health records.
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) has awarded three-year grants totaling $4.5 million to support research in three centers that will focus on improving clinical preventive services and practices such as screening, counseling and use of preventive medications for patients.
Steven Bennett, vice president of recruitment firm Kirby Partners, got right to the point. "I do love your unhappy employees," he told an audience of about 100 CIOs Thursday at the annual fall forum of the College of Health Information Management Executives. "If it’s not me who calls, it’ll be some other recruiter."
Pay-for-performance (P4P) does not result in providers cherry-picking patients, nor does it cause a negative impact on patient outcomes, according to a new study.
IBM and the Georgia Institute of Technology have announced a new research initiative that will apply advanced systems modeling and large-scale data analytics capabilities to integrate traditionally disparate data that affects health.
The Department of Veterans Affairs announced Wednesday that it is revising a rule that aims to make it easier to share records related to the treatment for drug abuse, alcoholism or alcohol abuse, HIV and sickle cell anemia with the Department of Defense.
Less than 10 percent of healthcare providers are more than halfway ready for ICD-10, according to a new report from research firm KLAS. Two that are well on their way to compliance, however, are Rady Children's Hospital in San Diego and St. Louis, Mo.-based SSM Health Care.
Piedmont Healthcare has enlisted TeleHealth Services, which develops interactive patient engagement tools and healthcare-grade televisions, to implement customized patient-centered environment, designed to improve patient education and offer interactive communication.
Eric Dishman, the Intel executive and popular healthcare reform speaker, told members of the Medical Group Management Association that America needs to move away from centralized care and embrace a distributed model.
The Front Porch Center for Technology Innovation and Wellbeing has received a grant for its Model eHealth Community for Aging project, which aims to leverage EHRs, mhealth and telehealth tools to support wellness needs for underserved older adults in Los Angeles' Koreatown.