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In an Aug. 21 letter to HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, Susan Turney, M.D., president and CEO of the Medical Group Management Association, called on Sebelius to embrace a series of actions designed to ease the burden on physicians trying to meet to meet the meaningful use requirements in the HITECH Act, including instituting a moratorium on penalties for physicians that have successfully completed Stage 1 requirements.

The Crohn’s & Colitis Foundation of America (CCFA), a non-profit organization focused on the cure to Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis, has introduced an iPhone app that serves as an interactive disease management tracker.

Compared with some industries, mobile computing came late to healthcare. But now, the revolution is accelerating—both on the clinician end-user side, and in the arena of clinician-patient communications and care management. How are IT leaders engaging clinicians and helping clinicians engage patients, in the emerging healthcare? CIOs and CMIOs are figuring out how to help their organizations survive--and thrive--in the emerging world of mobility.

If recent surveys are any indication, the leaders of physician groups nationwide are making the decision to move forward on absolutely needed clinical information technology implementation, despite the challenges inherent in a shifting reimbursement landscape.

Leaders at Madonna Rehabilitation Hospital have implemented a team composite record, which takes documentation from all of its different units and disciplines and standardizes it into a common format within the organization’s EHR. In this interview, Roberta Steinhauser, Madonna’s director of hospital applications, reveals how the composite has improved clinician workflow.