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Isabel, BMJ tool offers enhanced diagnosis decision support
Isabel Healthcare and BMJ Group have joined forces to create a new decision support tool for physicians. The application, known as Isabel with Best Practice, integrates Isabel's diagnosis decision
New database compiles best of Mayo Clinic expertise
Now that the Mayo Clinic has grown from a country family business of the 1800s to the world-renowned megapractice we know today, it's considerably more difficult for Mayo physicians to know which of
Health IT still far from its potential
A couple of weeks ago, we referenced both the 1991 Institute of Medicine report, "The Computer-Based Patient Record: An Essential Technology for Health Care" and President George W. Bush's 2004 call
Population health management improves prevention, outcomes
Two new studies suggest that a Kaiser Permanente population health management application can help physicians provide better care for a large, diverse panel of patients with diabetes and heart
GE, Joint Commission unveil technology to improve clinician handwashing
You may have seen the story in FierceHealthcare on Friday about the sorry state of hand hygiene in America's hospitals. At least two new, tech-focused projects are attempting to address this serious
McKinsey: Well-planned and executed health IT can save $40B annually
If you caught FierceHealthPayer or FierceEMR last week, you would know that four major health insurance companies will offer their own financial incentives to providers to adopt and use EMRs and
Survey: CMIOs expect to struggle with CPOE, confusing rules in ARRA
Many chief medical informatics officers believe that more federal funding will be needed to assure that the HITECH portion of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act achieves its goals of
SPOTLIGHT: Order sets improve compliance with best practices
A multi-hospital collaboration in Canada was able to reduce inpatient length of stay by nearly a full day, cut unscheduled readmissions in half and improve compliance with best practices by
SPOTLIGHT: HIMSS launches clinical decision support use wiki
HIMSS has launched a wiki intended to help industry members work together to solve a difficult set of problems. The HIMSS Clinical Decision Support Wiki is intended to help users share best practices
Halvorson: 'We need to truly reform healthcare'
Kaiser Permanente CEO George Halvorson isn't one to mince words. While he is all for decreasing the cost of healthcare in the U.S., he also believes that that won't occur until the care to patients
