Patients will be in charge of their care management on a daily basis, marked by shared care between patient and provider, according to a report from CSCs Leading Edge Forum. Patients also will be empowered through the availability of health information, new healthcare applications and a support system that encourages and monitors progress.

The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) has elected George Hickman, FCHIME, and Gretchen Tegethoff to its board of trustees.

A U.S. District Court jury has convicted the radiology benefits management company (RBM) CareCore National of conspiracy to restrain trade and of harming several N.Y.-state radiology practices and their would-be patients by not authorizing their referrals for standup MRI exams.

The value of patient amenities is an emerging conversation among healthcare policy makers, according to an editorial published Dec. 2 in the New England Journal of Medicine.

The Healthcare Information and Management Systems (HIMSS) and the Accredited Standards Committee X12 (ASC X12) have signed a memorandum of understanding to formalize their decision to collaborate on activities and offerings that improve or enhance the implementation of electronic data interchange (EDI) standards in the healthcare industry.

Simple, secure, scalable, standards-based, point-to-point messaging via the internet. Common definitions of identity. Its getting closer. Arien Malec, coordinator of the Direct Projectformerly known as NHIN Directoffered an update on its progress during a National eHealth Collaborative webinar earlier this week. And progress has been made, he said, announcing the 1.0 release of the Direct reference implementation and the start of real-world testing.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health, Office of Healthcare Quality, and the Critical Care Societies Collaborative (CCSC) have announced a new national program that recognizes teams of critical care professionals, hospital units and healthcare institutions that reduce or eliminate healthcare-associated infections (HAI).

The percentage of the U.S. patient population with multiple, complicated and chronic medical conditions is expected to rise, at the same time many healthcare practitioners are reaching retirement age. New ways of managing chronic conditions are at the heart of both quality improvement and cost containment efforts nationwide.