A New Reality: It's All About Data-Driven Quality

Building on the popularity of her blog post on this site about using clinical data to improve patient outcomes, Melissa Honour, MPH, worked with Eclipsys to develop the white paper, “Using Clinical Data in More Meaningful Ways,” — and further review the challeng... [MORE]

Tue, Dec 08 2009 7:21 PM EST

RAC-style Audits for Health IT?

Health care providers need to take some giant IT steps—quickly—if they want to cash in on $46 billion in Medicare and Medicaid incentive payments intended to promote electronic health records. Hospitals will likely be required to use CPOE for 10 percent of all patient care orders in 2011... [MORE]

Fri, Sep 04 2009 3:25 PM EST

Using Clinical Data in More Meaningful Ways

As the nation buzzes with the latest twists and turns of healthcare reform, one thing is increasingly clear: investments in health information technology must be linked to improving care. In the midst of the unprecedented industry discussion about the definition of “meani... [MORE]