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Text4baby successfully jumpstarts mother-doctor conversations
Free pregnancy messaging program Text4baby is proving to be highly effective, according to the latest research from University of California, San Diego and California State University in San Marcos.
AAP: Patient safety means admitting mistakes
Limiting harm to patients means not only preventing errors, but also reporting and learning from adverse events when they do occur. That's the American Academy of Pediatrics' message in a new policy
Pediatricians call for EHRs to support medical home model
The establishment of family-centered medical homes for children will need to be backed up by timely, secure, and comprehensive electronic health records (EHRs), the American Academy of Pediatrics'
Teen medicine a maturing subspecialty
Despite the host of unique health risks faced by teenagers, there are only about 650 board-certified adolescent medicine physicians in the United States. But a growing recognition that neither
New medical home accreditation guidelines emphasize health IT
Four medical societies have released a new set of guidelines for organizations accrediting patient-centered medical homes (PCMH) that are more specific about health IT considerations than their
Telemedicine speeds treatment of heart ailments
Remote interpretation of pediatric echocardiograms via telemedicine helped speed diagnosis and treatment of potentially serious heart conditions in hundreds of young patients, according to a study
Children's hospital installs interactive touch screens for outpatients
Hospitals everywhere are striving to make the patient experience a little less daunting by adding comforts of home. Like any other patients, hospitalized children and teens have questions--lots of
Medical groups advocate e-prescribing
In the past, much of the push toward e-prescribing has come from government officials or technology vendors. Now, that seems to be changing. This week, a group of five medical organizations have
