BOSTON—The current healthcare environment is a “perfect storm of opportunity,” but the activity might not equal the achievement, said Sachin Jain, MD, MBA, vice president and chief medical information and innovation officer officer for Merck. Jain spoke during the Medical Informatics World Congress on April 28.

BOSTON--Health organizations that strive for actionable data, or that wish to avoid being data rich and information poor, must commit themselves to pursuing a “single source of truth,” said Barbara Bartley, senior director of clinical decision support at the Health Care Authority for Baptist Health, based in Alabama, speaking at the Medical Informatics World Conference on April 28.

BOSTON--“ACOs want to do population health, but it’s not that easy to do,” said Hadi Kharrazi, MHI, MD, PhD,  John Hopkins University School of Public Health and School of Medicine, speaking at the Medical Informatics World Conference on April 28.

BOSTON--To keep a focus on innovation while managing the long list of federal mandates in healthcare, John Halamka, MD, CIO at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC), said incorporating newer technologies is essential. Halamka spoke at the Medical Informatics World Conference on April 28 about SMAC—social, mobile, analytics and cloud technologies.

Representatives of state medical licensing boards have approved updated guidelines to help ensure the safety and quality of medicine when it is practiced using telemedicine technology.

The American Health Information Management Association and the ECRI Institute are partnering in a pilot project to promote patient safety and quality care through the reduction of health IT risks, and enhancing health IT innovation.

April 24, 2014 09:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time,SAN ANTONIO--AirStrip, the leading provider of mobile healthcare solutions that drive clinical transformation, has announced an agreement with Texas Health Resources to deploy AirStrip ONE® throughout the health system. The AirStrip ONE platform will give clinicians seamless access to disparate data systems from multiple vendors, allowing them to interact with patient information both within and outside of the hospital using mobile devices. 

Kearney, NE, April 28, 2014 -- PHYND Technologies has been awarded a grant from the Nebraska Department of Economic Development to compare and analyze how much hospitals currently spend on managing health care provider information versus using the PHYND provider information management (PIM) platform.