A group of healthcare and consumer organizations and companies has released five policy recommendations designed to promote better medication adherence, and one of them is use of information technology.
Two surgeons from the University at Buffalo School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences are touting the benefits of social media to their colleagues as a way to disseminate accurate information to their trainees and patients.
The InterSystems Corporation of Cambridge, Mass., has announced that the first stage of the Swedish National Patient Summary project - the Swedish national health record - was successfully deployed on May 4.
Increasing the use of quality measurement as part of electronic health records systems is critical to achieving meaningful use of health information technology, the American College of Physicians reported in a paper released Thursday at the 129,000-member organization's annual meeting in Toronto.
The Eclipsys Corporation of Atlanta has announced that North Memorial Health Care of Robbinsdale, Minn. has selected the Eclipsys Laboratory Information System (LIS) to streamline enterprise efficienc...
Thirteen new guidelines for the patient-centered medical home recognition and accreditation program were released Tuesday by the American Academy of Family Physicians, the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American College of Physicians and the American Osteopathic Association. The groups say the new guidelines aim at ensuring standardization among programs.
Although social networking sites can be useful tools to disseminate healthcare information, some sites fall short of providing patient-centered resources and even provide misleading data, according to two studies that were presented Monday at the American College of Gastroenterology's ACG) 76th Annual Scientific meeting in Washington.
The Imaging e-Ordering Coalition is calling for digital ordering and clinical decision support to ensure that the right tests are ordered for the right patients at the right time.
GE Healthcare launched its MARS Virtual Sleep Lab (VSL), the first device that allows physicians to view quantitative cardiac and sleep apnea analysis from any GE-monitored inpatient bed, at the American College of Cardiology's 59th Annual Scientific Session in Atlanta on Monday.
Radiologists' use of an advanced search tool that aims at improving the way they retrieve and sort data from an electronic medical record has the potential to benefit many other departments, according to one of the authors of a new study.
The American College of Physicians, which represents 132,000 internal medicine specialists, is proposing a privacy rule that says researchers should maximize appropriate uses of information to achieve scientific advances without compromising ethical obligations to protect individual welfare and privacy.
The American College of Cardiology, a 40,000-member nonprofit medical society, has issued a statement supporting the federal government's decision to delay Stage 2 meaningful use.
Medical associations, health systems and research institutions wanting to improve how they interact with their members are increasingly turning to social media. But unlike other industries, healthcare hasn't been able to reap the benefit this type of collaboration can provide, says one expert.
The argument over the right age for women to begin mammograms was pushed to the center of the healthcare reform and technology debate with Monday's release of new guidelines from the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force.
Integration with a picture archiving and communication system (PACS) improves radiologists' use of clinical decision support tools, according to a study in the July issue of the Journal of the American College of Radiology.
DiagnosisOne has announced smartPath, which it bills as the first healthcare informatics platform to deliver comprehensive, real-time clinical decision support and analytics, evidence-based intelligent order sets and public health and quality reporting capabilities through a single solution.
GE Healthcare and Airstrip Technologies are offering a secure mobile app that provides clinicians with access to precise, near real-time cardiac information. Data from the GE Healthcare MUSE Cardiology Information System is now available on iPhones and iPads via AirStrip Cardiology.
To help physician practices navigate health information exchange, HIMSS and the Medical Group Management Association and its standards-setting body, the American College of Medical Practice Executives, have introduced the Ambulatory Health Information Exchange Toolkit for physician practices.
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