Princeton, NJ, April 14, 2014 – NovoPath introduces a customizable web portal to its NovoPath anatomic pathology laboratory information system (APLIS), helping customers efficiently comply with new legislation requiring labs to provide direct patient access to reports.  The new feature enables patients with test results to log on to a web portal through a lab’s website and download the documents generated through NovoPath’s APLIS.

For one day only, anyone can purchase their own Google Glass.

Electronic prescribing plays an important role in improving the safety and quality of the prescribing process, however barriers to implementation remain.

Implementing telehealth can be both threatening and disruptive to nurses and technical staff, thus managers and service providers should develop strategies to minimize these reactions.

The Health IT Policy Committee’s work groups are going through an evolution, according to National Coordinator for Health IT Karen DeSalvo, MD, MPH, MSc, during the committee’s April 8 meeting.

The University of North Carolina Internal Medicine Clinic reduced its 30-day readmissions by approximately 65 percent by implementing a care-based follow-up program.

Healthcare CIO workload has increased both in scope of responsibilities and in complexity since HITECH and these executives expect this workload to continue to grow significantly over the next five years, according to a white paper from executive search firm SSi-Search.

An Institutes of Medicine (IOM) committee has issued new recommendations that electronic health records (EHRs) should include social and behavioral data on patients in addition to medical data. However, the IOM does not address the potential patients sensitivities and security issues in including this data.