Quality and Safety
Interoperability
The National Quality Forum is set to finalize a framework that can measure health data interoperability and identify gaps in progress.
Electronic Health Records
A three-year study on a large mid-Atlantic hospital found that the laboratory department was hit the hardest during downtime, with patient identification as the largest challenge.
Electronic Health Records
Electronic prescribing of controlled substances was up 256 percent in 2016, company says.
Electronic Health Records
Getting meaningful use and even CMS out of the way will pave the road for hospitals to find innovative new business models that are quickly becoming critical to the grand vision, hospital CIO, consultant say.
Quality & Safety
Second phase of the pilot will include insights on bundled payment assignments.
Precision Medicine
WannaCry attacks highlight the dangers of terrorists accessing CRISPR tools, experts say.
Analytics
The partnership will offer community hospitals and treatment centers around the world access to Intermountain’s best practices.
Electronic Health Records
The industry group calls on the HHS secretary to rein in the Office of the National Coordinator from unnecessarily burdensome regulatory authority.
Analytics
Though physicians ordered as many Zika tests in May as they did during last year’s outbreak, whether that means hospitals will see more infected patients remains to be seen.
Electronic Health Records
Of thousands of Epic notes examined by UCSF researchers, just 18 percent were newly entered by clinicians.