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Clouded "Visionary" Leadership - Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center's EPIC "Business Cycle Disruptions"

Roy M. Poses | Health Care Renewal | May 10, 2013

A typical excuse for the multi-million dollar compensation now enjoyed by many leaders of health care organizations is these leaders' supposed brilliance. [...] Recent events, however, suggest that the "visionaries" may need new glasses. Read More »

Collaborative Drugs Management "Reduces Errors By Nearly 80%"

Lynne Taylor | PharmaTimes | February 19, 2014

A new, more collaborative approach to medicines management for hospitalised patients has been shown to reduce medication errors by nearly 80%. Read More »

Commentary: Better Communication For Improved Outcomes, Reduced Readmissions

Andrew Brooks | Government Health IT | April 26, 2013

Despite having one of the most technically advanced healthcare systems in the world, the United States continues to struggle with the most basic of tasks — efficient communication and care coordination amongst different providers. Read More »

Commentary: Fitting Disease Management Pieces Together

Susan Philip | Government Health IT | July 8, 2013

Health reform is changing the landscape of a patient’s care and treatment, and with the increasing prevalence and rising costs of chronic and complex diseases in the United States, key stakeholders — including payers and providers — are now searching for better ways to manage these conditions. Read More »

CommonHealth Will Enable Android Phone Users to Access and Share their Electronic Health Record Data with Trusted Apps and Partners

Press Release | The Commons Project | September 5, 2019

Cornell Tech, UC San Francisco (UCSF), Sage Bionetworks, Open mHealth and The Commons Project are collaborating to develop CommonHealth, an open-source, non-profit public service designed to make it easy and secure for people to collect their electronic health record data and share it with health apps and partners that have demonstrated their trustworthiness. CommonHealth will leverage data interoperability standards, including HL7 FHIR to offer functionality analogous to Apple Health™ to users of Android™ phones.

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Comparative Effectiveness Research Improves Outcomes, Kaiser Finds

Julie Bird | FierceHealthcare | June 10, 2013

The national Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) can look to Kaiser Permanente to see how comparative effectiveness research can enhance healthcare. Read More »

Consumer Reports Dives into Healthcare Ratings

Susan D. Hall | FierceHealthIT | July 5, 2012

Consumer Reports magazine announced it's getting into the growing business of publishing public ratings of hospitals and private physicians. It's only the latest move in the trend toward improving consumer information online amid growing public and political pressure for transparency. Meanwhile, it will likely be part of another trend, as well--that of hospitals and physicians criticizing hospital and physician ranking sites. Read More »

Could Mobile Health Become Addictive?

Joseph C. Kvedar | Healthcare IT News | August 21, 2013

The hype over mobile health is deafening on most days and downright annoying on some.  So it is with some reluctance that I admit that mobile has the potential to be a game-changer in health.  I’ve professed enthusiasm before, but that was largely around the use of wireless sensors to measure physiologic signals and SMS text as a way to deliver messages to patients and consumers... Read More »

Designing A Better Hospital Room

Staff Writer | Bolidt Booster | August 9, 2013

American architect Michael Graves has little patience for bad design. He also dislikes the ugly things he sees in hospitals. When he stayed at a rehabilitation center recovering from a rare, life-threatening infection, Graves eyed the magenta-and-green floral sheets on his bed... Read More »

Device Interoperability Effort Seeks Hospital Leaders

Ken Terry | InformationWeek | September 24, 2013

Center for Medical Interoperability, funded by the Gary and Mary West Foundation, aims to solve incompatibilities between medical devices and health IT systems. Read More »

Direct Secure Messaging Makes Big Impact In Chicago Behavioral Health Community

Erica Galvez | Health IT Buzz | September 5, 2012

Individuals with serious mental illnesses are 2.6 times more likely than the general public to develop cancer and nearly twice as likely to end up in an emergency or inpatient department with a serious injury, according to recent studies conducted at Johns Hopkins. Read More »

Docs 'Stressed And Unhappy' About EHRs

Mike Miliard | HealthcareITNews | October 9, 2013

While physicians recognize the benefits of electronic health records, they also complain that many systems deployed nowadays are cumbersome to use and often act as obstacles to quality care, according to a new report from RAND Corporation. Read More »

Doctor Burnout: Nearly Half of Physicians Report Symptoms

Janice Lloyd | USA Today | August 20, 2012

A national survey of physicians finds the prevalence of burnout at an "alarming" level, says a study out Monday. Read More »

Doctors Dissatisfied With Current EHRs But Hopeful For Future

Kyle Murphy | EHR Intelligence | October 9, 2013

Physicians are dissatisfied with the current state of EHR technology but are confident that future improvements will benefit both patients and their own professional satisfaction down the road, according to a new research published by the RAND Corporation. Read More »

Doctors Group Hails Reintroduction Of Medicare-For-All Bill

Press Release | Physicians for a National Health Program (PNHP) | February 14, 2013

Single-payer health program would cover all 50 million uninsured, upgrade everyone’s benefits and save $400 billion annually on bureaucracy, physicians say Read More »