Diagnostic errors can trigger unplanned hospitalizations, return visits or ER visits and put patients at greater health risk. More reviews of EHRs could help providers address the breakdowns causing missed, delayed or wrong diagnoses, according to a JAMA Internal Medicine study published on Feb. 25.

An online disease management system for patients with uncontrolled type 2 diabetes resulted in significantly reduced A1C levels and improved diabetes control after 6  months but that improvement was not sustained after 12 months, according to a study published in the March issue of the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association.

Patient-centered health received a boost from a $1.9 million grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to PatientsLikeMe, an open network in which nearly 200,000 patients document their experiences with diseases for outcomes research.

“Use your powers for good” is the mantra of Sarah Woolsey, MD, medical director of HealthInsight Utah, who has successfully deployed health IT to control hypertension in her patients.

Healthcare chief information officers (CIOs) face unprecedented challenges implementing and managing health IT initiatives in this new regulatory landscape.

Titus Schleyer, DMD, PhD, MBA, has been named to lead the Center for Biomedical Informatics at the Regenstrief Institute.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has adopted a transitional care payment code that places primary care at the center of its strategy to build a high quality healthcare system with reduced costs. The policy may nudge the U.S. closer to the medical home model, according to a Feb. 21 editorial in the New England Journal of Medicine

When it comes to choosing their children’s physician, parents are more influenced by word of mouth than online doctor ratings, according to a survey administered September 2012 by C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.