Quality and Safety
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services will be outfitted with new fraud-fighting analytic tools designed to prevent wasteful and fraudulent payments in Medicare, Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program.
Grants focused on smart use of IT.
Many Americans believe that U.S. policymakers’ failure to invest more in medical innovation will have a "significant long-term impact" on quality of life, employment and economic growth, according to a new poll. Medical research and innovation is typically linked to the use of information technology.
HIMSS award recognizes excellence in use of IT
Six healthcare systems have announced a first-of-its-kind partnership that will see them joining the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice to share data on outcomes, quality and costs across a range of common and expensive conditions and treatments.
There are many ways to go green. At Boston-based Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, a 550-bed teaching hospital affiliated with Harvard Medical School, John Powers, vice president of information systems, chose green tech.
Two 2010 recipients are healthcare organizations.
In one of the first formal studies of social networking websites targeting patients, researchers in the Children's Hospital Boston Informatics Program found that sites targeted at diabetes patients varied in both the quality of information they provide and the safeguards they take for protecting patient privacy.
Physicians at Ohio State University Medical Center (OSU) are incorporating genetic risk information into their patients' electronic medical records, as part of a study by Coriell Institute for Medical Research.
Health information is one of the hottest topics online today, with 80 percent of Americans using the Internet to research areas including diseases, procedures, doctors, hospitals, drugs, test results and insurance, according to a new survey by the Pew Internet Project and California HealthCare Foundation.