CHICAGO—“You could shoot holes in what we’re doing” related to evidence-based medicine and quality assessment, said Carolyn M. Clancy, MD, former director of the Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality, speaking at the Healthcare Leadership Forum on Nov. 14.

Two healthcare organizations were among the three recipients of the 2013 Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award, which recognizes performance excellence through innovation, improvement and visionary leadership.

Clinical management apps hold the promise of improving health outcomes, reducing health disparities and controlling costs, yet an array of hurdles prevent their widespread adoption, according to an issue brief published by the Commonwealth Fund.

As health IT leaders make their way to New York for the New York eHealth Collaborative (NYeC) Digital Health Conference, certain trends are emerging that will define healthcare in 2014. Practice Fusion, the nation's largest healthcare platform, looks at these key trends from 2013 and predicts what they might mean looking forward. With the ongoing Meaningful Use incentive push for health technology and the recent difficulty of many vendors to deliver on new and upcoming requirements, it's looking to be a big year for upheaval in the health IT sector.

Use of patient satisfaction surveys correlates directly with high performance, according to a recent report.

Quantia, a leader in Physician Relationship Management, has introduced the industry’s first virtual Marketplace for its physician community—QuantiaMD—that will connect physicians to products and services that can benefit their practice.

Novant Health and doxo today announced Novant Health has launched on doxo to deliver bills, simplify the patient experience and eliminate unnecessary costs across all thirteen of its hospitals. Novant Health patients can now receive and pay their healthcare statements, as well as organize EOB’s and other documents that surround episodes of care, directly from their free personal doxo account – online or through their doxo mobile app.

In its continuing bid to endorse Blue Button as a means to empower patients to download their health information, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT is partnering with industry players to sponsor codeathons that promote Blue Button-enabled health apps.