quality of care news from FierceHealthIT

The Gary and Mary West Foundation recently contributed $45 million to the West Wireless Health Institute in hopes of improving the drive to bring wireless health solutions to the public more quickly.... Read more...

Several major health providers are likely to fall short of Institute of Medicine goals if they stick with their current health IT systems, says a new study. The National Research Council looked at... Read more...

In September 2007, New Mexico's Department of Health implemented an EMR for New Mexico's 49 public health offices providing clinical services. Since then, health professionals have taken care of... Read more...

This week's piece from Network World points to a troubling problem--that hospitals are in crosshairs these days when it comes to cyberattacks and other forms of black-hat hacking. Given the growing... Read more...

Wouldn't it be nice if a technology vendor or consultant could offer you a single, all-in-one package which solved your toughest quality management problems? Well, it's nice to think about--but it's... Read more...

A new study by a Canadian research organization suggests that while EMRs can probably provide a patient safety boost, we still don't know enough about their impact to get the full benefits of these... Read more...

It looks like another rousing public sector success for e-prescribing, this time in Mississippi. A new program there giving just a couple hundred physicians an e-prescribing equipped PDA is saving... Read more...

So, apparently IT investment can have measurable clinical results, according to the latest from the Integrated Healthcare Association. I'd imagine part of this effect isn't directly due to IT use.... Read more...

Let's see if this news boosts group practice IT adoption. A new performance report from a large California trade group says the more groups participating in its Pay for Performance initiative... Read more...

A new Government Accountability Office report has underscored a problem already quite familiar to FierceHealthIT readers--that pulling together care quality data is a heck of a problem. The recently-released GAO report reviewed eight hospitals' efforts to collect data on measures specified by CMS. (These are the data sets CMS requires hospitals to submit if they want Medicare payment increases.) The case studies concluded that while existing IT systems play a role, they …

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