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Bridges to Excellence has launched five new reward programs for physicians to assess improvements in the diagnosis, treatment and management of chronic conditions such as asthma, congestive heart failure, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), coronary artery disease and hypertension.
The West Wireless Health Institute, a San Diego-based medical research organization, is collaborating with Corventis, Inc. to launch the institute's first clinical research program. The new program will look into how to lower hospital readmissions among heart disease patients.
Google Health has announced that it will endorse an industry-wide Declaration of Health Data, an initiative launched by HealthDataRights.org seeking rights for patients regarding their health data.
Physicians fail to share abnormal test results with patients in one out of every 14 medical tests, undermining the claimed efficacy of electronic medical records, according to a study released Monday. It was the use of a mix of paper and electronic records that fared worst.
A project conducted by medical information aggregator PearlDiver Technologies, Inc., and Indiana University is anticipated to boost the state’s economy.
Tufts Medical Center plans to roll out technology to automate the tracking of high-value, specialty inventory used in the cardiac catheterization, electrophysiology and interventional radiology departments.
Initiate Systems and Axolotl’s new partnership will offer a solution integrating their data management and health information exchange (HIE) capabilities to enable interoperability among healthcare information systems.
"Collecting observations of daily life may be the most important features of a personal health record," according to the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
The Glacial Ridge Health System, a rural, critical access hospital in Glenwood, Minn., has reduced costs by 50 percent by replacing its film-based picture archiving system with an on-demand PACS.
Three legislators are seeking to create a nationwide demonstration project that would use information technology to gather data on cancer care.