Dashboards, or scorecards, serve as effective tools in measuring performance, driving accountability and identifying focus areas for improving results, according to Kay Stewart-Huey, cardiac service line administrator at Children's Healthcare of Atlanta.

Monday, Feb. 21, 12:15 PM - 1:15 PM

Home-based physical therapy can improve the strength and balance of stroke survivors as well as treadmill training done in a physical therapy lab, according to the results of the LEAPS trial presented Feb. 11 at the American Stroke Associations International Stroke Conference in Los Angeles.

As computing power and IT capabilities continue to grow and improve, so do opportunities to modernize the U.S .healthcare system through application of these technologiesin order to foster the health and well being of individuals in underserved minority communities, according to a perspective paper published in the winter 2011 edition of Perspective in Health Information Management.

Chicago-based Riverside HealthCare will offer eClinicalWorks' EHR suite to its employed physicians.

MR imaging delivered a 4.4 percent incremental cancer detection rate among women with a history of radiation therapy to the chest, suggesting that combined breast MR and mammography screening may be warranted in this population, according to a study published online Feb. 15 and in the April issue of Radiology.

A systematic review of the medical evidence has determined that drug-eluting stents (DES) outperform bare-metal stents (BMS) for revascularization of chronic total occlusions (CTOs). The consistency and magnitude of treatment effect across both individual trials and the pooled analysis establish DES as the preferred therapy for percutaneous revascularization of CTOs, according to a study in the February issue of Catheterization and Cardiovascular Interventions.

A total of 225 breaches of protected health information (PHI) affecting more than 6 million individuals have been recorded since the Health IT for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Acts Breach Notification Rule was issued in August 2009, according to a report from Redspin, a Carpinteria, Calif.-based security auditing and testing firm.