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HITRUST moves to help healthcare fight cyber-crime
Healthcare organizations have a new partner in fighting cyber-attacks: The Health Information Trust Alliance has launched a Cybersecurity Incident Response and Coordination Center to share
Senior leadership should support ACOs, then take backseat
To be successful in developing and implementing accountable care organizations (ACO), senior leaders must buy into the collaborative care model, but they also should take a backseat and let others
Blue Shield ACO reduced costs, lowered readmissions by 15 percent
One key to reducing medical costs is collaboration among insurers and their members and providers and their patients within accountable care organizations (ACOs) because everyone is focused on
Blue Shield ACO keeps premiums low, could be model for others
Blue Shield of California and the hospitals and physicians it partners with say their arrangement, which has successfully kept premiums flat, could be an example for federal officials and other
HIMSS news roundup: Free EHRs, Dragon to the cloud, and more
While one- and two-doctor practices apparently aren't rushing to buy electronic health records, Sage Software had one piece of good news to report at HIMSS11 in Orlando, Fla., last week. Since
California hospitals implement ED scheduling systems--for a fee
Make an appointment for emergency care? It's not as far-fetched as you may think. At least two Southern California hospitals are installing systems to offer automated ER scheduling over the Internet,
Hospital CPOE collaborative to market order sets via Zynx
Three major health systems that have jointly developed more than 1,000 clinical order sets are joining with Zynx Health to market the order sets to other providers implementing computerized physician
CHW ups total EMR investment to $1 billion
Following a successful EMR implementation at eight California hospitals, Catholic Healthcare West will invest another $419 million to bring electronic records to its entire 27-hospital network and
Case study: CA hospital uses IT to find high-risk patients
If a hospital can identify its high-risk patients early in the process and act accordingly, it can improve their outcomes. That, at least, is the theory behind the new IT initiative at Mercy Merced
