GE Healthcare Performance Solutions has acquired the Medical Event Reporting System (MERS) patient safety evaluation technology from Netherlands-based MERS International to assist capturing, reporting and analyzing safety events and near misses.

The Center for Technology and Aging (CTA), with funding from The SCAN Foundation, has awarded $477,150 in one-year grants to five organizations that will demonstrate implementation of mobile health technologies for older adults with chronic health conditions.

Medical coding and billingvital to any healthcare organization, but never the most exciting departmentshave entered an era thats going to be anything but dull.

Although 2010 saw some consolidation among health information exchanges (HIEs), this has been a year of expansion for HIE in general, according to the 2011 eHealth Initiatives annual survey. The annual survey identified 255 active HIEs across the nation and its territories. Of those, 196 responded to the 2011 survey, said Genevieve Morris, eHealth Initiatives manager of research and programs for HIEs, during a web presentation last week.

Increased public health investments can produce measurable improvements in health, especially in low-resource communities. However, without improvements in public health practices, more money by itself is unlikely to generate significant and sustainable health gains, according to a study published online July 21 in Health Affairs.

Compliance with meaningful use measures wont maximize quality improvement (QI) or efficiency, according to an article in the July issue of The Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety.

Although home-based healthcare can lower costs and boost patient satisfaction, it also brings care and caregivers into environments that werent designed to support healthcare, warned a recent report from the National Research Council entitled Healthcare Comes Home: The Human Factors.

Childrens Medical Center Dallas, a 559-bed private, nonprofit facility and one of the largest pediatric healthcare providers in the nation, has selected Health Care DataWorks Enterprise Data Warehouse Appliance business intelligence tools to gain insight from its data.