Jan/Feb 2011 Features

January 31, 2011

NYC takes a bite out of referrals

An electronic referral system has helped New York City's biggest public hospital system cut walk-ins by 20 percent and more than double the speed of referrals.
January 31, 2011

Epidemiology in a box

New software tools point the way toward a cherished goal of health IT : the use of clinical treatment data to help track, analyze and predict the paths of disease.
January 31, 2011

Across the Great Divide

The National Coordinator issues a call for vendors to help providers in minority communities adopt electronic health record systems, but so far the response is muted.
January 31, 2011

Lighting the Way

Beacon communities now under construction from Maine to Mississippi are designed to discover insights into new uses of data from health IT applications that can be replicated far and wide.