About half of clinical decision support alerts were overridden by providers and half of those were classified as appropriate, according to a study published in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association.

This week, we covered Partners HealthCare’s 10th Annual Connected Health Symposium, which focused on collaborations and innovations to engage patients and elevate care. Also this week, a healthcare system announced its plan to begin using ICD-10 ahead of schedule and medical apps were front and center.

From the changing relationship between providers and patients to improving care coordination through health information exchange, the first East Coast AMDIS meeting covered a wide range of health IT topics.

The remote patient monitoring market keeps climbing, largely due to its promise to reduce healthcare costs while improving health outcomes.

The incidence and cost of diabetes is growing at a brisk pace making patient engagement and care coordination vitally important.

The Center for Connected Health, a division of Partners HealthCare, has launched Wellocracy, a clinically-based source of impartial, easy-to-understand information on new personal ‘self-health’ technologies such as health and fitness trackers and mobile apps.

A report from the IMS Institute for Healthcare Informatics explores the role of apps in healthcare and how the industry can move the use of apps from novelty to mainstream.

Patients were identified as the blockbuster drug of the century last year in a Health Affairs article and the healthcare industry, from payers and providers to innovators and the government, is taking that declaration to heart particularly by tapping the resource through mobile health.