Mike Miliard
Measures and incentives should be embedded in public reporting programs in every layer of the healthcare system, NQF's CEO said.
Some sobering news came from across the pond this past year. On September 22, England's Department of Health announced it would finally scrap the country's decade-long, problem-plagued health information technology initiative, the National Programme for IT (NPfIT).
It's a fact: Remote care monitoring and telehealth "will become much more commonplace going forward," says Barry Burk, vice president, healthcare industry at IBM Canada.
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) launched a project not too long ago in which it deployed EMRs to about 300 physician practices throughout eastern Massachusetts, hosting them via a private, cloud-based SaaS model.
A new case study has shown how Mercy healthcare system has reaped the benefits of integrating GS1 Standards, including bar codes, across the medical device supply chain.
Premier healthcare alliance has partnered with Carmel, Ind.-based Clinical Architecture in an effort to normalize disparate healthcare data and help care providers better understand and use health information.
The National Priorities Partnership (NPP) published five case studies on Jan. 25 that sought to explore “on-the-ground” application and alignment with national priorities for improving healthcare.
With Minnesota's GOP caucus set for Feb. 7, we spoke to the North Star State's health IT honcho about public-private partnerships, electronic health records, health information exchange, telehealth and more. Often billed as the healthiest state in the U.S., Minnesota has long been a healthcare IT leader.
The Premier healthcare alliance has joined with Verisk Health, which develops risk assessment and decision analytics technology, to offer data to hospitals and health systems meant to help better measure the health of their communities and develop new care models.
Often considered the healthiest state, Minnesota began harnessing HIT to bridge private and public health years before the HITECH Act. It's building on that EHR foundation for health information exchange, and is also currently cultivating a new crop of HIT professionals: informaticians.