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The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology has awarded Boston Children's Hospital approximately $275,000 to address the coordination of open information about market-ready electronic health records app solutions.
National Coordinator Karen DeSalvo, MD, announced late Tuesday afternoon that the Department of Health and Human Services and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT would post information for making certified electronic health record software less confusing.
A recent study published in JAMA suggests the gap in quality between critical access hospitals and non-critical access hospitals may not be as wide as originally thought.
River Hospital in Alexandria Bay, New York, has unveiled plans to renovate the campus' main building and construct a new facility for integrated primary and behavioral care.
Net revenue from patients is dipping for some acute care hospitals in Pennsylvania compared to three years ago, while operating margins are climbing, according to a new report from the Pennsylvania Health Care Cost Containment Council.
In Ohio, Coordinated Health Mutual is in receivership due to its extensive financial losses in the exchange market under its InHealth Mutual brand, according to Lt. Gov. Mary Taylor, who is also Ohio Director of Insurance.
The center is the largest of the 10 located in the Bay area that provide access to Stanford Children's Health clinicians. The hope is to bring follow-up and ongoing care closer to where pediatric patients live, as well as expand access to care for couples dealing with fertility issues.
The federal government is already pushing providers towards more risk, so it's not surprising that many are going all in by sponsoring a health plan.
Four well-known Wisconsin healthcare organizations, Affinity Health System, Columbia St. Mary's, Ministry Health Care and Wheaton Franciscan Healthcare, will integrate and form Ascension Wisconsin, the systems announced this week. The new system will be part of parent company Ascension, the largest nonprofit health system in the United States and the world's largest Catholic health system.
Seeking to improve patient safety and reduce hospital readmissions, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is readying a series of "Hospital Improvement and Innovation Networks" (HIINs).