Bernie Monegain

Robert Graham, MD, a family medicine physician from Cincinnati, will lead the Aligning Forces for Quality (AF4Q) program, the cornerstone of a $300 million initiative of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) to improve the quality and equality of healthcare nationwide.

Promoting a two-heads-are-better-than-one approach, Baylor Health System's David Muntz and consultant Stuart Gardner called for greater collaboration between IT departments and clinical engineering during a Tuesday afternoon session at HIMSS11.

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.

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 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.

Grants focused on smart use of IT.

New research from the National Quality Forum supports the use of effective IT tools and promotes clinical decision support.

IBM and Premier healthcare alliance executives say they will integrate health information from hospitals and other healthcare sites to create a model that could benefit more than 2,400 hospitals and thousands of other healthcare organizations across the country.