Quality and Safety
Mount Auburn Hospital, a 200-bed Harvard teaching hospital in Cambridge, Mass., successfully implemented a computerized physician order entry (CPOE) system.
Get ready for another day of demonstrations and information gathering in the Exhibit Hall.
Researchers at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania say they have designed, implemented and validated a method for querying and extracting radiation dose data, which they say will better help them monitor patient exposure to radiation from CT.
McKesson has bolstered its cancer care platform with the purchase of US Oncology, a Woodlands, Texas-based developer of clinical tools, guidelines and care pathways for doctors and others in the field of cancer-related healthcare.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is weighing what quality measures to use for a website it is developing to help consumers compare physicians, an offering that is required under the health reform law enacted earlier this year.
The California Association of Physicians Groups (CAPG) has enlisted Health Access Solutions to help with its accountable care efforts - bringing the company's web-based multidisciplinary care coordination platform to more than 150 physician groups and nearly 15 million patients.
With cardiovascular disease as the leading cause of death in the United States, cardiovascular specialists have long used clinical quality guidelines to optimize care and enhance the quality of life for patients.
An intensive population management program that matches heart disease patients to personal nurses and clinical pharmacy specialists is able to save lives, reduce hospital visits and drive down costs, according to a new study from Kaiser Permanente Colorado.
It has been almost two years since Congress passed the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (HITECH Act) – an unprecedented piece of legislation lawmakers hoped would catapult the advance of healthcare IT.
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality has awarded a $12 million grant to Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center for the creation of an inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD) registry that will initially link 27 sites across the nation.