NEW YORK, Sept. 9, 2014-- Two of the most significant challenges in managing a successful clinical trial are recruiting the right test subjects and retaining them for the length of a trial. Time requirements, distance from the study site, number of site visits expected, and transportation concerns make it difficult to recruit patients for trials and contribute to high dropout rates, causing long delays and increasing the risk of trial failure.

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Sept. 8, 2014-- Based on its recent analysis of the population health management industry, Frost & Sullivan recognizes eClinicalWorks with the 2014 North America Frost & Sullivan Award for Enabling Technology Leadership. eClinicalWorks has reinforced its prominence in the ambulatory healthcare IT solutions market by developing the Care Coordination Medical Record® (CCMR®), a Web-based, dynamic and highly cross-functional platform for population health management and coordinated care.

Despite all the questions and concerns surrounding the usability and interoperability of health IT, innovative, forward-thinking care delivery organizations are taking on the challenge of getting more out of their electronic tools.

The majority of patients indicate a readiness for telehealth, according to a study published in Telemedicine and e-Health.

With all of the regulatory initiatives facing physicians, Ronald Dixon, MD, set out to find a way to increase clinicians’ efficiency without sacrificing quality of care.

The movement is on to achieve the triple aim of better health, improved outcomes and lower costs—and effective care coordination for patients at home helps achieves all three.

Presentations, roundtables and discussions at the 24th AMDIS Physician-Computer Connection Symposium in Ojai, Calif., dove deep into the health IT topics that present the biggest challenges for today’s CMIOs: Meaningful Use and ICD-10.

The transition to ICD-10 in October 2015 could create problems with the generation of patient safety data, according to a study in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association.