In an effort to redesign the Medicare payment model to promote higher quality of care at a lower price, federal healthcare agencies are advocating accountable care organizations (ACOs) to promote accountability and conserve costs. Sounds like a good idea, but what does that mean for your IT department?

As 4G arrives, smartphone cameras improve and telehealth goes mainstream, a wide range of pilot projects are taking remote patient monitoring over new horizons.

Regulations and guidance soon to be issued by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and the Federal Trade Commission likely will allow for considerable variation in the form of accountable care organizations (ACOs) that providers adopt, but will nudge them toward greater integration and more interdependent relationships, wrote Thomas L. Greaney, JD, in an editorial published Dec. 22, 2010 in the New England Journal of Medicine.

Ultimately, what made the recent CMIO Summit on the Key to Meaningful Use a success was that the audience was as enthusiastic and engaged as the speakers. There was a lot of collegiality and meaningful exchanges of information; everybody felt that they were heard.

Dell is seeking to acquire cloud-based medical archiving leader InSite One to assist healthcare organizations in retaining healthcare data.

Functional MRI (fMRI) and diffusion tensor MRI more accurately predict the development of reading skills in dyslexic children than standard behavioral testing, according to a study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

If you can summarize a year by its news, what do these top 10 CMIO/cmio.net stories say about the year just ending? When I looked at the most read CMIO online and magazine content, there were a couple of interesting takeaways.

To be effective, clinical practice guidelines must be clear and concise, and developers conflicts of interest must be disclosed to ensure trustworthiness, according to the National Quality Measures Clearinghouse/National Guideline Clearinghouse (NQMC/NGC) editorial board.