BOSTON—The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) provides care for 461,000 veterans, more and more with remote healthcare, said Adam Darkins, MB, ChB, MD, chief consultant, care coordination services, speaking at the ninth annual Connected Health Symposium on Oct. 25.

BOSTON—Creating a nationwide health information network dwarfs just about all other human achievement, said David Blumenthal, MD, MPP, former national coordinator of health IT and incoming president of the Commonwealth Fund. He spoke at the ninth annual Connected Health Symposium on Oct. 25.

BOSTON—Technology and aging should go together and result in great things, said Joseph Coughlin, PhD, director of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology AgeLab, who spoke at the ninth Annual Connected Health Symposium on Oct. 25.

In the few months since we changed our name to Clinical Innovation + Technology, it seems that innovation in healthcare is everywhere.

Clinical Innovation + Technology hosted its annual CMIO Leadership Forum, Oct. 4-5, at the Trump Hotel Chicago,
with this year’s focus on “Transforming Healthcare Through Evidence-based Medicine.” Sponsored by Elsevier's Clinical Key.

As of Oct. 1, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) began penalizing hospitals for unnecessary hospital readmissions, but a range of efforts to reduce the 30-day readmission rate that draw from clinicians, IT staff and patients themselves have been in the works for years.

There has generally been broad consensus that widespread adoption of EHRs is a necessary, if as yet imperfect, step in the evolution to better, safer and more affordable care.

Omnicell and Cerner have formed an agreement focused on interoperability between their products using the CareAware iBus.