The American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) has named Deborah Green as chief operating officer (COO) and has promoted CFO Denise Froemming to oversee additional areas of the association.

Clinical informatics systems are currently underutilized by hospital infection preventionists, according to a study published this month in the American Journal of Infection Control.

Seventy percent of healthcare professionals are skeptical that the state and/or federal health insurance exchanges (HIX) will be ready to launch by the Oct. 1, 2013, deadline, according to a survey conducted by Edifecs which polled health insurers and healthcare provider attendees of Edifecs' 2013 Healthcare Mandate Summit.

The State Innovation Models Initiative is providing up to $300 million to support the development and testing of state-based models for multipayer payment and healthcare delivery system transformation with the aim of improving health system performance for residents of participating states.

With a hefty national deficit and climbing healthcare costs in the U.S., many are looking at innovations in health IT to help rein in costs and improve care.

The National Minority Quality Forum has launched a collaboration between its National Health Index (NHI) and Microsoft to launch the National Clinical Trial Network designed to address challenges in clinical trials.

Clinical Innovation + Technology published a viewpoint on Feb. 5 by Ken Elek, MD, about information versus data. The following is a response submitted by Brian Martin, MD, founder and CMIO of Sedeo, a clinical analytics firm delivering strategic intelligence to the pharmaceutical industry, along with Eleck's rebuttal.

The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) is the first children's hospital to earn the National Committee for Quality Assurance's accreditation as an accountable care organization (ACO).