A team-based approach can reduce excessive cardiac monitor alarms and therefore alarm desensitization and fatigue, according to a study published in Pediatrics.

Digital health and health IT companies brought in $2.2 billion in funding during the first half of 2014, according to a report from CB Insights.

WESTBOROUGH, Mass.--eClinicalWorks®, a leader in ambulatory healthcare IT solutions, today announces the success its customers have achieved in receiving National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH) recognition. 

Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium and HIMSS, in partnership with Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise, are joining forces to solve the challenge of assessing and reusing EHR data for research purposes within a single workflow.

In the ongoing effort to develop an interoperability roadmap, the Interoperability and Health Information Exchange Work Group presented draft recommendations and the thoughts behind them during the Nov. 4 Health IT Policy Committee meeting.

The fall 2014 update to The Leapfrog Group’s Hospital Safety Score shows that hospitals have made significant improvements when it comes to implementing processes of care and safe practices but their performance on outcomes lags behind.

BOSTON—“Healthcare is a people business in need of technology, not a technology business in need of people,” Jordan Shlain, MD and CEO of HealthLoop told an audience at the Digital Healthcare Innovation Summit on Nov. 4.

BOSTON—“Right now [the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services] has the biggest opportunity of any organization in healthcare,” said Andy Slavitt, CMS principal deputy administrator, at the Digital Healthcare Innovation Summit on Nov. 4.