Quality and Safety
Hospitals' use of electronic health records has had just a limited effect on improving the quality of medical care nationwide, according to a study by the nonprofit RAND Corporation.
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.
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 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.
CGI Federal, a subsidiary of Montreal-based IT firm CGI Group, has been awarded a contract by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The firm will provide technology and expertise for its CDC Information Management Services (CIMS).
MedAssurant, a provider of data-driven healthcare technology, has been enlisted by Medicaid Health Plans of America (MHPA) to provide advanced analytics to help establish priorities and inform best practices in healthcare delivery for Medicaid patients.
Six technologies, whose impact has been measured by hospitals, can improve workflow and communication for nurses while boosting patient care, according to analysts.
iSOFT, the Australian healthcare IT company, has entered into the life sciences sector with a research tool that retrieves clinical data from electronic health records.
An eHealth agreement, promoting a common approach on the interoperability of EHRs and on training the health IT workforce, was signed between Europe and the United States on Friday.