January 31, 2012 Mark Hagland
blog
The results coming out of three years of hospitals' participation in the Premier Health Alliance's QUEST program are in, and they are stunning. When it comes to performance improvement, both on the patient safety/care quality side, and on the cost-reduction side, the QUEST results show that there is no excuse for lack of performance improvement.
January 30, 2012
news
Three of the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC)’s federally designated Beacon Communities, in New Orleans, southeast Michigan and Cincinnati, will launch a program this week aimed at sending personalized text messages to people at risk of developing Type 2 diabetes. The initiative is called the“txt4health” mobile texting program.
January 27, 2012 John DeGaspari
article
The University of California San Francisco (UCSF) Medical Center has significantly improved the number of potential kidney donors to its program after streamlining and automating its donor evaluation process. John Roberts, M.D., chief of the UCSF Transplant Service, says the hospital’s kidney transplant center has seen about a 40-percent increase in the number of applications from potential donors.
January 26, 2012 Gabriel Perna
blog
One sector of healthcare IT that will be worth watching over the next few years is telehealth. From the sounds of my recent chat with Jonathan Linkous, the CEO of the American Telemedicine Association, the industry is on the brink of explosive growth.
January 26, 2012
news
The Washington, D.C.-based Institute of Medicine is offering students that are pursuing degrees toward careers in health, engineering, and computer science a chance to add to their resumes by participating in the "Go Viral to Improve Health" contest. The content challenges undergraduate and graduate students to create innovative health-related apps for prizes worth $18,000.
