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NewsAllscripts contest aims to create EHR-agnostic CDS tool
Allscripts has launched a Million Hearts Initiative Clinical Decision Support Challenge, aligned with the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services' Million Hearts campaign to prevent 1 million Read more...
Despite $3.2B HIT spend in Europe, clinical IT investment lacking
Health professionals in Europe are embracing integrated technology, but only to an extent, according to a recent report by the European Coordination Committee of the Radiological, Electromedical and Read more...
FDA CDS (Cont.)
Examples of Presently Regulated CDS As we mentioned, FDA currently regulates a number of CDS products. Here are a few examples:
Accessory software: Any software marketed to complement the Read more...
FDA's approach to clinical decision support software: A brief summary
We wrote this paper for those who have little experience with U.S. Food and Drug Administration regulation of clinical decision support (CDS) software. Our goal is to provide background for those who Read more...
KLAS: CDS tools need to integrate into physician workflow
Clinical decision support (CDS) tools are starting to have a real impact on healthcare providers, but still have some kinks to work out, according to a new report from KLAS. The researchers looked at Read more...
Cost, usability keep many docs skeptical of health IT
About half of physicians responding to a Wolters Kluwer survey said their practices had embraced health information technology, including clinical decision support tools. But 44 percent of the Read more...
Health IT key to HealthAmerica medical home pilot
Preferred Primary Care Physicians, a 32-doctor group in the Pittsburgh area, is piloting an advanced medical home model with assistance from HealthAmerica, a subsidiary of Coventry Health Care. Read more...
Clinical decision support helps to reduce pressure ulcers
By using clinical decision support (CDS) tools in conjunction with electronic health records, several dozen nursing homes across the country have reduced pressure ulcer incidence rates by 42 to 55 Read more...
Electronic prescriptions have as many errors as written prescriptions
Electronic prescriptions contain about as many errors as handwritten prescriptions, according to a new study published in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association. The study's Read more...
GE: At $2.2B spent so far, healthymagination ahead of schedule
GE announced this week that its "healthymagination" program to improve health and grow its healthcare business around the world is ahead of schedule after Year 2, having so far invested $2.2 billion Read more...
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