Quality and Safety
In today's charged debates about healthcare, one issue enjoys strong bipartisan support: the need to eliminate fraud, waste and abuse that collectively cost as much as $700 billion annually - nearly one-third of total healthcare spending.
Researchers at Stanford University have developed an electronic assessment and scoring tool called PhysiScore that can predict risks of serious health complications in premature infants with 98 percent accuracy, according to a new study.
Orlando Health is rolling out a Web-based decision support checklist tool to assist physicians with diagnosis decisions.
The Department of Health and Human Services' Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) has awarded a three-year demonstration $3 million grant aimed at reducing birth-related injuries. The grant supports quality improvement and data analysis initiatives.
William M. Tierney, MD, an international leader in medical informatics and health services research, has been named president and chief executive officer of the Regenstrief Institute.
The Regional Extension Centers aimed at helping physicians across the country convert to digital records have begun their work, and some of the centers’ leaders were trumpeting their goals at the 2010 Government Health IT Conference and Exhibition June 15-16 in the nation’s capital.
To make sure patients are safe, hospitals have to put their CPOE systems to the test, warns healthcare industry watchdog The Leapfrog Group in a report released Wednesday. Leapfrog called on the federal government to make testing mandatory.
The Leapfrog Group's new report on CPOE points to the harm that could occur to patients when healthcare IT is employed without proper testing and monitoring.
The U.S. healthcare system comes in last for performance among seven industrialized nations, despite spending the most, according to a new Commonwealth Fund report. The researchers note that healthcare reform and uptake of health information technology hold promise for the future.
Six healthcare organizations have been named as finalists for the 2010 HIMSS Davies Ambulatory Care and HIMSS Davies Public Health Awards of Excellence, recognizing their use of electronic health records.