The West Virginia Regional Health IT Extension Center has selected Greenway Medical Technologies PrimeSUITE 2011 EHR, practice management and interoperability tools to enhance clinical performance across the organization.

When the team at Virtua, a non-profit health care system headquartered in Marlton, NJ, began planning its new Voorhees hospital location in 2002, it was agreed that the design of the new facility would be governed by patient care. “The goal we had in mind was to spend our money around the patient,” says Virtua CEO Richard Miller. “When we visited

Like their counterparts in other states, hospitals in Rhode Island have experienced their share of tragic outcomes based on medical errors, from mix-ups in medication administration to wrong-site surgeries. However, change is afoot in the state as data pertaining to events are more freely reported by hospital staff, aggregated, and shared by the

Improving the patient experience has long been a goal of health care providers. However, health care reform is making the patient experience more than just a marketing consideration: the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services (CMS) have structured value-based purchasing to link 1% of Medicare reimbursement to a hospital’s performance in quality

Third-party firms specializing in a vendors applications implement them more adeptly than the vendor itselfby a widening margin, according to a KLAS report.

The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) will award $9 million in fiscal year 2011, providing one-time supplemental funding of up to $100,000 to support health centers located in Beacon Communities, stated Carlene Randolph, branch chief of health IT at the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services HRSA stated during a conference call June 30.

Implementing a computerized prescribing system without comprehensive functionality and processes in place to ensure meaningful system use does not decrease medication errors, according to research published online June 29 in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association.

We have a very diverse group of [health information exchanges] that started in many different ways but are in some ways evolving in the same direction, which is an interesting trend, said Kate Berry, CEO of the National eHealth Collaborative (NeHC), during a June 28 HIE Leaders Roundtable webinar hosted by the Washington, D.C.-based organization.