Clinical Innovation + Technology hosted its annual CMIO Leadership Forum, Oct. 4-5, at the Trump Hotel Chicago,
with this year’s focus on “Transforming Healthcare Through Evidence-based Medicine.” Sponsored by Elsevier's Clinical Key.

As of Oct. 1, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) began penalizing hospitals for unnecessary hospital readmissions, but a range of efforts to reduce the 30-day readmission rate that draw from clinicians, IT staff and patients themselves have been in the works for years.

There has generally been broad consensus that widespread adoption of EHRs is a necessary, if as yet imperfect, step in the evolution to better, safer and more affordable care.

Omnicell and Cerner have formed an agreement focused on interoperability between their products using the CareAware iBus.

First Database (FDB) released a broad range of cross references for its FDB Interoperability Module, an EHR tool that can aid clinical decision support, electronic prescribing and medication management.

Cigna and the New Haven Community Medical Group in Connecticut have banded together to launch an accountable care initiative.

Quest Diagnostics announced the first EHR technologies to be certified under its Health IT Quality Solutions Program, which is designed to indicate which EHR systems will facilitate effective laboratory data interoperability for U.S. physician practices.

The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) presented several awards during its Fall CIO Forum in Indian Wells, Calif., held Oct. 16-19.