Cleveland Clinic has signed a strategic partnership with Elsevier to provide physician-author support of content for First Consult, an evidence-based clinical decision support tool.

GE Healthcare has released Centricity Research, a new clinical research management tool.

Recent surveys and research offered several items of interest for primary care physicians. For starters, Match Day last week saw 11 percent more U.S. applicants matched to family medicine residencies than in 2010, the National Resident Matching Program (NRMP) disclosed.

Theis & Associates has unveiled My Crisis Record (MCR), a mobile technology-based real-time crisis health record and communication system.

Will Oct. 1, 2013, be Y2K for physician practices and hospitals? Thats the deadline for making the transition from ICD-9-CM (clinical modification) codes to ICD-10-CM and ICD-10-PCS (procedural coding system) codes.

Providers face new pressure from pay-for-performance models of care, under which Medicare and Medicaid no longer reimburse for avoidable medication errors. At the same time, physicians are treating more patients who are taking increasingly complex medications.

Physicians making the transition from conventional practices to patient-centered medical homes will need to master organizational learning and develop an awareness that they may need a three to five year commitment, according to an article in the March edition of Health Affairs.

Physicians in West Michigan will get help transitioning to EHRs and qualifying for federal incentive dollars due to a partnership with the Physician Organization of Michigan (POM) and the Michigan Center for Effective IT Adoption (M-CEITA).