Calgary Scientific Inc., a company known for creating transformative technology for the medical industry and beyond, announced today the release of ResolutionMD® 5.0, which offers better access to health information, supports increased teamwork and enhances communication among practitioners and patients.The new software version enables practitioners to instantly access expertise via live consultations using their web or mobile devices. Reports can now be created using voice dictation to complete patient records immediately and the need to physically transfer images on CD is drastically reduced with new image exchange capability.

The lack of EHR interoperability between the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs and the Department of Defense has led to the Government Accountability Office (GAO) adding the problem to its list of "high-risk" areas.

Need more evidence that healthcare is behind the times when it comes to embracing technology? A new survey of consumers suggests that fewer than 10 percent of insured Americans turn to digital tools when making physician appointments.

Children’s Hospital Los Angeles is committing $50 million to expand its Center for Personalized Medicine to advance efforts to use the human genome to make more effective diagnoses, targeted therapies and personalized healthcare for pediatric patients.

Patients preferred physicians who wore formal attire in the majority of studies evaluated by researchers conducting a systematic review of published literature.

As those who have done it know, implementing an EHR is a lot like going to war: The strategy must be devised, the forces mobilized and the tactics deployed. CIO-of-the-Year Sue Schade has done this twice and shares lessons learned in those campaigns in this issue of Partner Voice. The tactics and business cases governing the deployment of new technologies are changing, in response to the remodeling of our healthcare system. We hear from Carlos Carrasco, COO at the 808-bed Orlando Regional Medical Center, on a new formula for building a business case that factors in accountability to both patients and the referring network.

Quality of care for heart attacks and other conditions is determined in large part by decisions made in a hospital’s board room, according to a story in The New York Times.

Medical schools are often criticized for being slow to modify their curricula, but some are starting to teach students to adapt to changes in the U.S. healthcare system, The Wall Street Journal reports.