Building off its Patient Engagement Framework, the National eHealth Collaborative has begun work on a collaborative effort to develop a Patient Experience Framework.

Pressure to cut healthcare costs, growing demand to integrate healthcare systems, rising interest in computerized physician order entry to reduce medication errors and government incentives translate into a rosy forecast for the health IT market.

With all the focus on soon-to-be-implemented penalties for 30-day hospital readmissions, it’s no surprise that healthcare organizations are employing a range of initiatives to address the problem.

GREEN BAY, Wis.-- IOD Incorporated, the leader in full-suite health information management (HIM) solutions for hospitals, healthcare systems and clinics, today announced its acquisition of ApeniMED. Based in Minneapolis, Minn., ApeniMED is a leader in healthcare interoperability and Healtheway (formerly the Nationwide Health Information Network Exchange) connectivity.

Ozark, Missouri (PRWEB) October 23, 2013-- Spectrum Health, a not-for-profit health system in West Michigan, and HealthMEDX, the leading provider of electronic medical record for LTPAC, have implemented standards-based interoperability to successfully automate the exchange of patient information between Spectrum Health’s inpatient settings and their post-acute care facilities.

Scripps Translational Science Institute in La Jolla, Calif., is yet again the recipient of a multimillion dollar National Institutes of Health grant to support research in genomics, wireless technology and bioinformatics toward individualizing medicine.

Over the past decade, the healthcare medical simulation industry has experienced significant growth due to the focus on patient safety and technological advancements—with more growth to come.

Virtualization software and dictation with speech recognition are technologies showing the highest adoption rate within the hospital IT market, according to a recent report from HIMSS Analytics.