The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has made available approximately $40 million to strengthen and better coordinate activities within state and territorial health departments aimed at preventing chronic diseases and promoting health.

Like much of medicine, radiology suffers from a backward perspective on performance improvement. Most industries have moved beyond punitive programs like peer review to predict and prevent errors at the system level, rather than report them at the individual one, explained the authors of a June perspectives article in Radiology.

Wolters Kluwer Health has released a query tool that assists the collection of data for the GI Quality Improvement Consortium (GIQuIC) benchmarking initiative, an educational organization specializing in gastroenterology.

Thomson Reuters is divesting its healthcare business, which provides data, analytics and performance benchmarking technologies and services to companies, government agencies and healthcare professionals, by the end of the year. 

ID Experts has developed a free toolkit and checklist that can help healthcare organizations prepare for and respond to an Office for Civil Rights (OCR) data breach investigation.

WASHINGTON, D.C.As pressure grows for hospitals to provide better care at lower costs to more patients, providers can no longer linger in the the dark ages. A business analytics movement in healthcare could deliver substantial savings for providers and improved outcomes for patients, according to a June 3 session on business analytics at the annual meeting of the Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine (SIIM).

The Department of Health & Human Services Office for Civil Rights' proposed disclosure rule addresses two separate rights, said Adam H. Greene, JD, MPH, from the law firm of Davis Wright Tremaine, during a webinar hosted by the Healthcare Information & Management Systems Society.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has proposed revisions to the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT-Approved Accreditor (ONC-AA) process, which would create a process for addressing ONC-AA misconduct or failure to fulfill its responsibilities under the permanent health IT certification program.