Quality and Safety
Taconic Health Information Network and Community (THINC) has been awarded an $8.7 million grant for a project that aims to boost mental health care coordination among six medical home practices through the use of health IT.
Omnicell, which makes automated dispensing systems and other medication management solutions for acute care facilities, has announced its acquisition of Pandora Data Systems, a Scotts Valley, Calif.-based provider of data analysis software for medication diversion detection.
The Integrated Healthcare Association (IHA), a statewide leadership group that promotes quality improvement, accountability and affordability of healthcare in California, has named its top 45 performing physician organizations for 2009 based on the IHA statewide Pay for Performance (P4P) program measures.
A UCLA-led consortium of five University of California medical schools and Cedars-Sinai Medical Center has received a $9.9 million grant from HHS's Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality to investigate the use of wireless and telephone care management to reduce hospital readmissions for heart failure patients.
The Institute of Medicine (IOM) is launching a one-year study aimed at ensuring the efficacy of information technology in improving healthcare safety.
A recent study conducted by the Center for Connected Health, a division of Partners HealthCare, revealed that daily text messages providing medication reminders and information about atopic dermatitis (a type of eczema) significantly improved treatment adherence, self-care behaviors, skin severity and quality of life for dermatology patients.
Hillside Avenue Family and Community Medicine has reduced the need for patient emergency room usage by more than 10 percent over the past year. The Rhode Island practice used McKesson's Practice Partner electronic health record solution to improve the health of chronically ill patients.
Automated care coordination gaining traction in physician, homecare sectors.
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.
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.