The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and Microsoft will work together to develop a health IT solution that collects data from different monitoring equipment and identifies key trends aimed at preventing injuries and complications that can result from medical care.

Researchers have identified five ways hospitals could overcome the so-called “weekend effect,” a term used for the idea that surgeon-independent patient outcomes are worse on the weekend.

National Research Corporation has named the hospitals chosen for its annual consumer choice award. 

Plenty of action in health IT this week but the most significant developments centered around interoperability and privacy and security. 

Comments regarding the federal interoperability roadmap are coming in and the American Academy of Family Physicians wants to see some action. 

The National Institutes of Health has awarded $9.75 million to University of California at San Francisco (UCSF) over the next five years for creation of Health ePeople, a platform that will enable investigators to conduct mobile and wireless health research.

The Management Information Systems (MIS) department at the University of Arizona, Eller College has received a $1.4 million grant from the National Library of Medicine of the National Institute of Health (NIH).

Virginia Tech and science and technology solutions company Leidos today announced a partnership to collaborate on student-conducted scientific research into the big data challenges of today’s electronic health records with the aim of optimizing healthcare delivery.