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A Standard Model For Evaluating Return On Investment From Electronic Health Record Implementation

Jonathan Perlin | Health Affairs Blog | January 6, 2014

The Institute of Medicine (IOM) Roundtable on Value and Science-Driven Healthcare views electronic health information as a pillar for the improved effectiveness, efficiency and safety of health care.  Information is also fundamental to the concept of a “learning health system,” which IOM has described as having the capacity both to apply and generate scientific evidence in the delivery of care. [...] Read More »

Bizarre And Sad: Defense Dept. Runs 900+ Suicide Prevention Programs

Bob Brewin | Nextgov | September 24, 2013

The Defense Department has more than 900 suicide prevention programs and  plans to whittle down that number based on a cost-effectiveness ratio, according to this missive from the Military Health System. Read More »

Data Network Foundation Laid For Effectiveness Research

Anthony Brino | Government Health IT | December 18, 2013

The Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute is paving a large part of its foundation with a new round of $191 million in grants for comparative effectiveness and clinical data research networks. Read More »

Electronic Health Records: First, Do No Harm?

David F. Carr | InformationWeek | June 26, 2014

EHRs are commonly promoted as boosting patient safety, but are we all being fooled? InformationWeek Radio investigates. Read More »

Google Logic: Why Google Does The Things It Does

Michael Mace | Mobile Opportunity | July 1, 2013

“What does Google want?” A favorite pastime among people who watch the tech industry is trying to figure out why Google does things. [...]  But the topic also comes up regularly in conversations with my Silicon Valley friends. Read More »

Health IT's Next Big Challenge: Comparative Effectiveness Research

Paul Cerrato | InformationWeek | August 21, 2012

Healthcare providers are being pushed to deliver more cost effective medical care and to improve the health of not just individual patients but large populations. One key to carrying out both mandates is finding more clinically effective treatment options. Read More »

Many Device Manufacturers May Miss Looming UDI Deadline

Joseph Goedert | Health Data Management | August 5, 2016

Vendors that sell medical devices to healthcare organizations will be scrambling to meet a mid-September deadline to get unique identifiers and meet requirements to match them with devices and accompanying software. Loftware, a vendor of unique device identifier labeling solutions, recently conducted a survey of about 120 medical device professionals and found that only 15 percent of respondents said they believe their organizations are ready for the September 24 deadline...

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Why Suicide Prevention Is Part of Population Health Strategy

Paul B. Hofmann and Jerry Reed | Hospitals & Health Networks | May 9, 2016

As hospitals and health systems recognize the need to devote more time and attention to population health management and improving community health, more effort correspondingly must be focused on behavioral health services. In response, the American Hospital Association has launched an initiative to assist hospitals with behavioral health...

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Is Digitizing Healthcare Making It Less Safe?

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July 1, 2014 - 2:00pm - 3:00pm

Join InformationWeek Radio on Tuesday, July 1, at 2:00 PM EST for a discussion with Scot M. Silverstein, M.D., a consultant and professor in the Drexel University informatics program who is a leading critic of the claims made for EHR systems and researches the pitfalls of the software and the way it is implemented. He blogs at Health Care Renewal as InformaticsMD. One of the issues he highlights is that there is no systemattic tracking of medical errors associated with functionality or usability issues of EHRs, making it hard to judge whether their net effect has been positive or negative. Yet there are troubling signs, in everything from academic studies to malpractice claims, that the risks of EHRs have been underestimated and the rush to implement these systems may be misguided. Read More »