Personal health records could save $21 billion annually on a national level, asserts the latest research from the Center for Information Technology Leadership (CITL), a nonprofit research center based at Partners HealthCare System in Boston.
Neuroscientist Eve Edelstein, senior vice president of research and design at HMC Architects of Ontario, Calif., and a visiting scholar in the biological sciences at University of California-San Diego, is using neuroscience and architecture to explore the effects of hospital design on patients, visitors and staff.
A new study has found that physicians who receive training in a technology-rich environment but go on to work in a less modern facility feel they can't provide safe, efficient care as they could have with information technology.