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Staff must communicate mortality risk to patients leaving against medical advice

Hospital staff should communicate the risks in patients' leaving against medical advice. A study in American Journal of Medicine revealed that, not only are those patients more likely to bounce back,

Electronic tool helps docs screen for pregnancy problems

A tool enabling doctors to electronically take a detailed family history during a woman's first prenatal visit currently is being tested by several hospitals in partnership with the March of Dimes,

GE, UPMC to test PACS-like digital pathology system

Those who say we practice 19th Century medicine in the 21st Century usually are referring to paper medical records, but could just as well be speaking about pathology, since laboratory medicine has

Innovative care practices kept Montefiore out of debt

It may sound like an oxymoron, but high-performing, economically stable safety-net providers actually exist, according to a new Commonwealth Fund case study. One such provider, New York-based

Intermountain would miss 36 of 48 current MU requirements

An organization like Utah's Intermountain Healthcare that has years of experience with an EMR and even serves as a development site for GE Healthcare's Centricity system should have no problem

'Improved documentation' key to healthcare's future

In a roundtable discussion on Tuesday focusing on the results of a nationwide emergency department study conducted by the Health Management Academy , one of the primary points talked about was

GE plans to develop new health integration framework with Mayo, other clinics

GE has announced plans to develop a new health IT collaboration framework, commercializing an open architecture, working in partnership with some of the U.S.'s most prestigious healthcare