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Learning health system will build on minimum standards, data decentralization, flexibility and innovation, IOM says.
The National Patient Safety Foundation (NPSF) has announced a new membership program for patient safety professionals that will provide an opportunity for sharing of best practices and the unification of the growing patient safety community.
Dell announced Wednesday that it will acquire cloud-based medical archiving firm InSite One, of Wallingford, Conn., as it seeks to better enable healthcare organizations to retain healthcare data and share images.
A program that uses smartphones to transmit ECGs from the ambulance to the cath lab at the University Hospital in Newark, N.J., is showing improvement in patient outcomes.
The HIT Policy Committee's Quality Measures Workgroup is taking recommendations from the public until Dec. 23 on clinical quality measures for Stage 2 and Stage 3 meaningful use.
Optimism is prevalent in the healthcare IT sector, where 77 percent of venture capitalists expect investment to increase, according to results of the 2011 Venture View predictions survey, conducted by the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA) and Dow Jones VentureSource.
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology plans to sponsor an open community of practice for developers of health IT to create solutions to challenges that prevent rapid and widespread meaningful use of electronic health records.
An electronic health system that alerts physicians with a yellow light when problems exist with a patient's care is being used by doctors at Northwestern Medicine. The system goes one step further by tying docs' responses to the alerts to quarterly performance reports.
ONC will hire vendor to set up organized competitions for innovative tools to solve challenges to widespread meaningful use of EHRs.
U.S., European Commission will encourage common approach to EHR interoperability and health IT professional education programs.