Quality and Safety
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.
After receiving concerns from stakeholders, EHR technology developers and ONC-ATCBs about public health surveillance specifications for certified EHRs, the ONC issued an interim final rule requesting to remove the specs.
The Health Care Incentives Improvement Institute (HCI3) and the New York City Health Department's Primary Care Information Project have partnered to develop a program to recognize physicians who deliver high-value primary care to adult patients in New York City.
Vocera Communications, which makes point-of-care communication solutions for hospitals, announced two new acquisitions on Tuesday: Clinical Health Communications and Integrated Voice Solutions.
Two landmark reports by the Institute of Medicine (IOM) changed Americans’ perception of their health care system and launched today’s drive to improve the quality and safety of medical care in America. The reports were To Err Is Human, published in 1999, and Crossing the Quality Chasm, released in 2001.
Two keynote speakers at the fourth annual Health 2.0 Conference yesterday – a futurist and the "godfather” of Web 2.0 – disagreed over whether innovation was happening in the healthcare industry.
There can be no meaningful use of an EHR without product certification. To make the testing go without a hitch, practice, practice and practice some more, officials from the Certification Commission for Health Information Technology (CCHIT) urged CIOs gathered at the CHIME10 Fall CIO Forum.
Officials at Maine Medical Center, (MMC) the largest medical center in the state, has opened its new simulation lab, a virtual environment designed to train medical students and staff.
Taconic Health Information Network and Community (THINC) has been awarded an $8.7 million grant for a project that aims to boost mental health care coordination among six medical home practices through the use of health IT.
Omnicell, which makes automated dispensing systems and other medication management solutions for acute care facilities, has announced its acquisition of Pandora Data Systems, a Scotts Valley, Calif.-based provider of data analysis software for medication diversion detection.