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The devotion teenagers pay to their text messages may not be a bad thing, if children's hospitals can use it to help boost medication adherence in their patients.
St. Joseph's Hospital Health Center, a 431-bed facility in Syracuse, N.Y., is poised to roll out digital vital signs technology to the bedside. The system moves data directly to the patient’s electronic health record.
Critical access and rural hospitals will benefit from nearly $20 million in new technical support assistance to help them convert from paper-based medical records to certified electronic health record technology, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced Sept. 10.
Eleven healthcare organizations in New York State will receive a total $109 million in state grants to improve the coordination of healthcare through the use of health information technology.
Maine Medical Center, a 606-bed tertiary care and teaching hospital, part of the seven-hospital MaineHealth System, has begun a 20-month roll out of a new $90 million electronic health record system.
Hospitals are making progress on collecting and reporting healthcare-associated infection (HAI) data to a national network, according to a new survey by the Premier healthcare alliance.
For the second year in a row, Detroit Medical Center executives say they have achieved improved patient safety and saved $5 million to boot.
In May of 1886 the American South made one of its biggest concessions since the end of the Civil War—three inches. After months of negotiations, the Southern Railway Company agreed to tailor their railroad gauges to fit the Pennsylvania Railroad Company’s standards.
The patient-centered medical home (PCMH) promises to improve care quality and reduce costs through highly individualized chronic care management featuring patient self-management, online interaction among interdisciplinary care team members, proactive monitoring using registry and needs-based care, according to the Patient Centered Primary Care Collaborative (PCPCC).
Establishing 60 health Regional Extension Centers across the country to help solo and small physician practices get on board with electronic health records is the right prescription for a system that remains mired in paper. A recent report from eHealth Initiative shows that the centers - called RECs - are off to a slow start.