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.

Despite the effectiveness of computerized provider order entry (CPOE) systems at preventing medication errors, adoption and use in U.S. hospitals remain modest, according to a study in the March issue of the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association.

Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) is putting some brick and mortar behind its efforts to bolster innovation in healthcare technology, with a focus on interoperability.

Healthcare reform, accountable care organizations, readmissions and reimbursement rates are just a few of the challenges facing today’s healthcare leaders. Balancing costs and savings potential for new technologies also weighs heavily on their shoulders. A watch list from the ECRI Institute provides a roadmap to 10 technology issues that healthcare leaders should have on their radar in 2013 and beyond.

At the close of the CMIO Leadership Forum: Transforming Healthcare Through Evidence-based Medicine last fall in Chicago, Clinical Innovation + Technology invited five luminaries to build on the abundant discussions and dive deeper into the quality of the evidence in medicine, the lack of evidence in many cases, the struggle to engage physicians and patients, and strategies for integrating evidence-based medicine (EBM) into clinical practice. Will the adoption of EBM reach 90 percent by 2020? Should evidence-based medicine be expanded to evidence-based healthcare? Will we see the rise of EBM as a medical specialty? Read on to find out.

Interoperability, or the lack thereof, seems to be the one challenge that can be counted on to impact virtually all aspects of health IT and its capability to advance. Not that people aren’t busy working to improve, measure and question interoperability.