The movement is on to achieve the triple aim of better health, improved outcomes and lower costs—and effective care coordination for patients at home helps achieves all three.

Presentations, roundtables and discussions at the 24th AMDIS Physician-Computer Connection Symposium in Ojai, Calif., dove deep into the health IT topics that present the biggest challenges for today’s CMIOs: Meaningful Use and ICD-10.

The transition to ICD-10 in October 2015 could create problems with the generation of patient safety data, according to a study in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association.

We asked for innovative projects that are helping healthcare providers achieve the triple aim and you delivered. We selected the top five entries for our first annual CIT Accelerator Awards.

ROCKVILLE, Md.--DrFirst, a leading provider of healthcare IT solutions, announced today that providers using the company’s EPCS GoldSM 2.0 controlled substance e-prescribing technology have issued more than 663,000 controlled substance prescriptions to date, and the company expects to surpass the 700,000 mark in mid-September.

During the Sept. 3 Health IT Policy Committee meeting, the co-chairs of the HIT Policy and Standards Committee’s JASON Task Force presented draft recommendations based on the JASON advisory group’s report on developing a data infrastructure for the nation’s healthcare system.

The Federation of State Medical Boards has completed the drafting process for model legislation to establish an Interstate Medical Licensure Compact.

Just over one-quarter of U.S. broadband households currently own and use at least one connected health device, according to research firm Parks Associates.