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Federally funded "beacon" communities are tackling the problem of hospital readmissions and other tough health care challenges by testing the effectiveness of multiple treatment strategies simultaneously instead of taking the traditional approach of testing one treatment at a time, according to the program's director.
The Office of the National Coordinator deserves credit for managing to pull together, in less than two years and with a small but apparently tireless staff, a plan for rolling out a system of electronic health information sharing across the country.
HRSA releases community clinic finder while DOD launches mobile app to track service members emotional health after deployment.
The stage is set for an explosion in population health mapping that will serve up a 'visual understanding' of disease trends and directions.
Cerner Corp. beat expectations for its third-quarter profits, which were up 26 percent - a performance spurred by sales fueled by healthcare providers striving to meet meaningful use criteria.
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.
The San Francisco Department of Public Health is launching a two-year EHR roll-out to its employed physicians, in order to help them meet meaningful use requirements.
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.
Telemedicine, Internet-based education and case management, group visits and peer counseling are among the strategies Department of Veterans Affairs researchers are studying to increase access to care and improve the health outcomes of patients with diabetes.
The Department of Health and Human Services will provide competitive funding for states to design and implement the information technology infrastructure needed to operate health insurance exchanges.