The ONC’s Office of Clinical Quality and Safety is gearing up to build the foundation for a Health IT Safety Center, according to a Health IT Buzz blog post by the office’s director, Amy Helwig, MD, MS and Chief Nursing Officer Judy Murphy, RN.

A survey of the current clients of Cerner and Siemens Healthcare’s IT division, as well as employees at both entities, reveal positive feelings about the upcoming acquisition, according to a survey conducted by Black Book Rankings.

Ann Arbor, Michigan, September 12, 2014 -- A cornerstone of the partnership is to use data to help healthcare systems and organizations make informed decisions to deliver and improve patient care. Core elements of the partnership include:

WESTBOROUGH, Mass.--eClinicalWorks®, a leader in ambulatory healthcare IT solutions, recognizes the success of Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) in generating savings for the healthcare industry. Through eClinicalWorks Care Coordination Medical Record (CCMR®), the company currently works with a wide variety of Medicare, Medicaid and other shared savings programs, aiding them in population health management. Many of these organizations are experiencing the benefits outlined by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) this week.

Clearwater, FL, September 10, 2014 -- CHOICE (Coalition of Hospices Organized to Investigate Comparative Effectiveness), a quality improvement benchmarking network, will soon have the largest patient-level, multi-hospice dataset to date.

Analytics is the top priority for IT infrastructure investment, according to a survey conducted by Health Catalyst of about 70 College of Healthcare Information Management Executives members.

Medical informaticists realized long ago the importance of information technology in improving the quality and safety of healthcare and were working on this long before the Institute of Medicine’s 1999 report “To Err is Human.”

Beaumont Health System, Botsford Health Care and Oakwood Healthcare are now officially one organization — Beaumont Health. The new $3.8 billion not-for-profit health care organization is one of southeastern Michigan’s largest with eight hospitals with 3,337 beds, 153 outpatient sites, 5,000 physicians and more than 33,000 employees.