Quality and Safety
The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) Foundation has announced that John Glaser, CEO of Siemens Healthcare, Health Services Business Unit, has been selected as the recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award.
After one year at the helm of the Medical Group Management Association (MGMA), Susan Turney, MD, is presiding over nothing short of a reinvention for medical practices across the nation. She talked with Healthcare IT News about the promise and the difficulties practices face as they shape a new model.
After two months of beta testing, Imprivata is going to market with a texting app called Imprivata Cortext. Executives say it will change the lives of physicians -- and their patients. Can a texting app do that? At least one CIO is convinced that it can.
Become "pioneers" in health information management, Wil Yu urged the audience at his keynote speech Oct. 2 at AHIMA's 84th Annual Convention and Exhibit.
Whether it's within their own practices or the healthcare continuum within their community, physicians need to set up well-defined pathways of information for patient care, system vendors say.
The Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality at Johns Hopkins Medicine has partnered with the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) to design and deploy a set of interventions to reduce medical errors in intensive care units.
The healthcare industry has been lethargic, resistant even, to redesigning care models and embracing innovative technology that other industries have long utilized. One organization, in particular, seeks to change that.
I'll admit it ... I had never even heard of "predictive analytics" while practicing medicine or even in the decade after leaving clinical practice.
As we move into the next stage of IT enablement for healthcare, hospitals and health insurers will need to help lead the charge on population health and care coordination. The entire focus of healthcare reform has been to expand access and improve care and quality for the population, and ultimately for the individual.
UPMC on Monday announced a $100 million initiative aimed at mining and analyzing data for more precise care. Lisa Khorey, vice president of enterprise systems and data management at UPMC, explains the various facets of the project.