Quality and Safety
The pilot for the Virtual Lifetime Electronic Record (VLER), which enables sharing of veterans' health records will be expanded, the Department of Veterans Affairs announced Thursday.
The largest urban health simulation and training facility of its kind opened Tuesday at Manhattan's Bellevue Hospital Center.
The joint electronic health record for the Veterans Affairs and Defense Departments will in effect be open source when it is complete, according to a senior VA official, who provided more details about how that will occur.
Hospitals appearing in the August online ranking of U.S. News Best Hospitals 2011-12 used HIMSS Analytics' Electronic Medical Record Adoption Model (EMRAM) scale to select the top 140 hospitals. All hospitals on the list rank at Stage 6 or Stage 7 on the EMRAM.
A $500,000 grant from the National Science Foundation will help Indiana University researchers better understand how technologies can help underserved aging adults remain at home.
As New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg ordered the evacuation of hospitals in low-lying sections of Manhattan in anticipation of Hurricane Irene's landfall, North Shore-LIJ health system began removal of patients from two of its hospitals and set up an emergency command center.
Just as some hospitals in low-lying areas of Manhattan were preparing to evacuate on Friday afternoon and others all along the East Coast were readying for the wind, rain and power outages expected from Hurricane Irene, Boston-based Iron Mountain, an information management services company, offered 10 tips on how best to weather the storm.
Aiming to single out high-potential health IT startups and help enable their "rapid development and growth," Healthbox is a new accelerator program that offers support for seed-stage companies that can chart the "complex transition into the digital age."
As the accreditor selected by the Office of the National Coordinator to oversee the Permanent Certification Program for Health Information Technology, the American National Standards Institute announced Thursday it's open for business.
The Florida Department of Health, Bureau of Epidemiology, and The New York City Department of Health & Mental Hygiene have been named the two winners of the HIMSS Public Health Davies Award of Excellence, for the value their IT systems bring to the populations that they serve.