CAMBRIDGE, MASS.--“Hospitals are the perfect environment for mobile app solutions,” Naomi Fried, PhD, CIO, Boston Children’s Hospital (BCH) said in the keynote speech at the Institute of Health Technology Transformation’s Boston Health IT Summit on May 8.

Toronto, May 09, 2013 -- Patient Prompt®, the leader in bi-directional patient communication, has launched a unique initiative to assist the growing number of physician-sponsored Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) meet their quality measures obligations.

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla., May 8, 2013 -- FEEL Golf Co., Inc. (OTCBB: FEEL), through its wholly owned Florida based subsidiary, Intelligent Living Inc. ("ILI"), announced today that the Company has signed an Electronic Medical Records software development agreement with ScheduleMorePatients LLC ("SMP"), a leading healthcare technology research company specializing in anti-aging management and patient health software.

“Five percent of the problem is people and 90 percent of the problem is systems,” said Farzad Mostashari, MD, ScM, national coordinator of health IT, in opening remarks at the Health IT Policy Committee on May 7.

In a continuing Privacy & Security Tiger Team discussion on patient record query and response recommendations, team co-chair, Deven McGraw—director of the Health Privacy Project at the Center for Democracy & Technology—said the group has decided not to add additional policies for non-targeted queries.

Almost 800 million prescriptions were routed electronically in 2012, 44 percent of prescriptions and up from 570 million in 2011, according to Surescripts' annual National Progress Report and Safe-Rx Rankings.

Accreditation firm URAC is seeking public comment on standards and measures for its new accreditation program being developed for accountable care organizations (ACOs).

Health Level Seven International's (HL7) next generation standards framework is progressing and will be balloted as a Draft Standard for Trial Use.