Quality and Safety
The to-do list for the year ahead for the members of the College of Health Information Executives (CHIME) is long and complex - the more reason to form partnerships, says one of its leaders.
The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME), with 1,400 CIO members, is urging the government to allow hospitals and physician practices more time to assess Stage 1 progress and to better prepare for Stage 2 meaningful use objectives.
Meeting meaningful use is taking precedence in health IT budgets for 2011, according to hospital executives polled in a recent survey.
The Center for Technology and Aging has awarded a total of $500,000 to California, Indiana, Rhode Island, Texas and Washington to help each state evaluate the benefits of technologies, such as personal health records and EHRs, for improving patients' transitions from hospitals to their homes or other settings.
The National Quality Forum (NQF) has announced the conversion of 113 NQF-endorsed measures from a paper-based format to an electronic "eMeasure" format. The conversion, requested by the Department of Health and Human Services in compliance with the HITECH Act, will allow the measures to be more easily readable by EHR systems.
The market for point-of-care (POC) tests has almost doubled from 2003 to 2009, according to a report by Kalorama Information.
Clinic is one of 10 groups in Medicare demo project.
The Kansas Academy of Family Physicians has launched the Kansas Patient Centered Medical Home Initiative, involving eight practices.
Patients are finding it hard to do online research on their primary care doctors, according to a new survey.
A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention survey that indicates more than half of physicians use electronic health records represents a significant IT milestone, but the news doesn’t come as a surprise to those in the medical community.