Quality and Safety

Clinic is one of 10 groups in Medicare demo project.

The Kansas Academy of Family Physicians has launched the Kansas Patient Centered Medical Home Initiative, involving eight practices.

Patients are finding it hard to do online research on their primary care doctors, according to a new survey.

A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention survey that indicates more than half of physicians use electronic health records represents a significant IT milestone, but the news doesn’t come as a surprise to those in the medical community.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services will be outfitted with new fraud-fighting analytic tools designed to prevent wasteful and fraudulent payments in Medicare, Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program.

Grants focused on smart use of IT.

Many Americans believe that U.S. policymakers’ failure to invest more in medical innovation will have a "significant long-term impact" on quality of life, employment and economic growth, according to a new poll. Medical research and innovation is typically linked to the use of information technology.

HIMSS award recognizes excellence in use of IT

Six healthcare systems have announced a first-of-its-kind partnership that will see them joining the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice to share data on outcomes, quality and costs across a range of common and expensive conditions and treatments.

There are many ways to go green. At Boston-based Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, a 550-bed teaching hospital affiliated with Harvard Medical School, John Powers, vice president of information systems, chose green tech.