While residents favor the use of tablets such as iPads in hospitals, high initial expectations show the danger of implementing new technologies, according to a Journal of Medical Internal Research study published on May 8.

The National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) released the names of 112 individuals from 29 states as newly certified patient-centered medical home (PCMH) content experts.

PHILADELPHIA -- The University City Science Center is collaborating with the Canadian Consulate General to pilot a business accelerator for health information and communication technology companies from Canada.

Healthcare professionals’ use of pagers and other old communication technologies is costing the U.S. healthcare industry an estimated $8.3 billion annually, according to a May 8 Ponemon Institute report.

The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) awarded the National Parkinson Foundation (NPF) and John Hopkins University $1.7 million to deliver telemedicine care to Parkinson’s disease patients, according to a May 13 announcement. This project is one of 51 projects totaling more than $88.6 million that PCORI approved for funding on May 6.

The global health IT market is estimated to jump 7 percent to hit $56.7 billion by 2017 from $40.4 billion in 2012. Demand for clinical information technology, administrative solutions and services is fueling this growth, according to a global market research and consulting company MarketsandMarkets report released on May 10.

CAMBRIDGE, MASS. -“The power is there, it’s coming into the hospitals in peoples’ pockets,” Sean Kelly, MD, CMO at Imprivata and emergency physician at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, said on the importance of mobile technology to drive patient engagement. In light of privacy and security challenges, “we need way to find ways to make technology work for us rather than against us,” he added.

CAMBRIDGE, MASS. –“We are at the precipice of change. Organizations face life or death decisions by their choice of IT strategies,” Scott Lundstrom, group vice president at IDC Health Insights, told attendees at the Institute of Health Technology Transformation’s Boston Health IT Summit on May 8.