EDs with HIE more likely to avoid repeat imaging
One of the first large-scale studies on the links between HIE participation and imaging in hospital emergency departments finds that redundant CT scans, x-rays, and ultrasounds decreased fairly significantly, with savings in the millions of dollars, at hospitals connected to an HIE.
How Data Analytics Helped Spark a $36.5M Turnaround at Boston Medical Center
Boston Medical Center President and CEO Kathleen Walsh attributes a new data analytics project to the hospitals financial turnaround which helped the hospital go from a $32 million loss in 2010, to a $4 million surplus in two-years.
Survey says: EHR incentive program is on track
Karen DeSalvo, MD and new National Coordinator for Health IT, publishes a post on The Healthcare Blog outlining the progress made thus far under the EHR Incentive Program. The piece generated a good deal of comments arguing both for and against continued pursuit of EHR adoption.
St. John embraces digital records
A local paper covers St. Johns Medical Center’s (WA) Epic go-live. St John’s is Part of PeaceHealth’s system wide Epic install.
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