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A new Center for Social Media, slated to launch at Mayo Clinic this month, seeks to accelerate effective social media use at the clinic – as well as for hospitals, medical professionals and patients worldwide.
First there was Yale-New Haven Hospital, the 944-bed primary teaching hospital for the Yale School of Medicine. There is also the children’s hospital and the psychiatric hospital. Most recently, the health system added the Smilow Cancer Hospital at Yale-New Haven, a $467 million, 14-story paragon of patient care and safety, of environmental virtue – and of information technology.
Orlando Health is rolling out a Web-based decision support checklist tool to assist physicians with diagnosis decisions.
A new bipartisan bill aims to ensure that multi-campus hospitals that employ and show meaningful use of health IT systems receive incentive payments that reflect the higher costs of implementation.
While healthcare providers are making progress toward 5010 compliance, many are lagging behind the timeline set by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, according to results from the HIMSS 5010/ICD-10 Industry Readiness survey.
Preventing patient data breaches is cited as the number one priority for healthcare IT decision makers, but work remains for complying with security regulations, according to a national survey that examines IT trends in healthcare.
The Department of Health and Human Services' Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) has awarded a three-year demonstration $3 million grant aimed at reducing birth-related injuries. The grant supports quality improvement and data analysis initiatives.
Passage of the healthcare reform bill has set in motion sweeping changes in the way medical care will be delivered and paid for over the next decade and beyond.
Few would argue that the healthcare industry universally supports coordinated care and population management - in theory. But transforming that vision into reality has been virtually impossible to achieve.
By now we all may be growing tired of the “it’s the economy, stupid” construction. What's more, using it for health IT is not respectful of the many people who work in the area, because they are earnestly trying to improve health. But, in many respects, the "forest for the trees" kind of reset that the construction suggests is very appropriate now.