The ECRI Institute announced a new service to help hospitals fine tune their current alarm management practices. The service comes as the deadline of Phase I criteria for the Joint Commission’s 2014 National Patient Safety Goal approaches in January 2014.

The need for evaluation and measurement regarding the effectiveness and impact of quality improvement work on a wide range of US health care issues was center stage today at the 19th Annual Scientific Symposium on Improving the Quality and Value of Health Care, attended by more than 300 health care professionals. Hosted by IHI as part of the 25th annual National Forum, presentations and research posters described results and learning from quality initiatives across a wide range of topics – including new approaches for disclosing adverse events to patients, the value of shared medical appointments, a statewide initiative to bring down the number of elective births before 39 weeks, the growing role of patient family advisors, and much more.

The New York City Economic Development Corp. awarded $5 million to the Mount Sinai Health System to help establish the Mount Sinai Institute of Technology.

Cincinnati, OH, December 03, 2013-- On the eve of its 100-year anniversary, Dolbey and Company, Inc., which began in 1914 as a partner and dealer for Thomas A. Edison’s dictation machine company, announces the issuance of a United States patent for “Systems and Methods for Providing an Electronic Dictation Interface.”

Data center outages have a heavy financial toll for healthcare organizations, costing an average of $690,000 per incident, according to a Ponemon Institute/Emerson Network Power report.

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A special issue of The American Journal of Managed Care focuses on health IT and was guest edited by Farzad Mostashari, MD, ScM, former national coordinator of health IT.

As health IT leaders make their way to New York for the New York eHealth Collaborative (NYeC) Digital Health Conference, certain trends are emerging that will define healthcare in 2014. Practice Fusion, the nation's largest healthcare platform, looks at these key trends from 2013 and predicts what they might mean looking forward. With the ongoing Meaningful Use incentive push for health technology and the recent difficulty of many vendors to deliver on new and upcoming requirements, it's looking to be a big year for upheaval in the health IT sector.