Tablet computers are an appropriate means to read or analyze electroencephalogram (EEG) results outside of the clinic or hospital, according to a Mayo Clinic study released on March 29.

Physician leadership, quality measurement and reporting, clinical integration of care coordinators, common care delivery across all patients, chronic disease registries and an integrated delivery network all are key patient-centered medical home (PCMH) strategies that can bolster ACO development, according to Michael Jeremiah, MD, of Roanoke, Va.-based Carilion Clinic.

The National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) extended concepts of the patient-centered medical home by launching an evaluation program for specialists outside of primary care: NCQA Patient-Centered Specialty Practice (PSCP) Recognition.

This month’s news related to clinical practice centers around physician dissatisfaction and efforts to reduce hospital readmissions.

The numbers don’t lie. Recalls of medical devices in which the problem owes to software woes have been climbing for years. Given the pace at which this category of medical device problem is progressing, how can CTOs and CIOs cope, much less manage? Proceed proactively, say the experts, and enlist the help of your colleagues in IT.

The IT workforce shortage keeps many healthcare IT leaders up at night, not only because of the challenging prospect of finding experienced people to implement and run their systems but also the task of retaining them.

Self-management interventions delivered by computer and mobile phone currently provide limited benefits for people with diabetes, according to a systematic review published in The Cochrane Library. Although computer and mobile phone-based self-management programs had small positive effects on blood sugar levels, these effects seemed to be short-lived.

U.S. physicians expressed pessimism about the future of medicine, citing concerns about eroding clinical autonomy and income, and an overall struggle to achieve medical liability reform, in a 2013 survey published March 18 by Deloitte Center for Health Solutions.