Sept/Oct 2011 Features

November 30, 2011

The Top 5 roadblocks HIEs face

If health information exchanges are to fulfill their promise to remake healthcare locally, much work remains, obstacles must be overcome. Here are the five most paramount.
November 30, 2011

Not by quality metrics alone

Even the most robust technology itself cannot improve healthcare outcomes, as Vanderbilt University Medical Center discovered on its way to lowering Ventilator-associated pneumonia rates – saving money and pateint’s lives.
October 31, 2011

DoD and VA pursue PCMH model

The agencies are harnessing health technologies to improve doctor-patient interaction by reaching patients – and their health problems – right where they reside. Here’s how they plan to transform that from buzzword into better care.
October 31, 2011

A new age of biosurveillance is upon us

The CDC will overhaul BioSense in November, amid a wave of new data-sharing tactics rolling in from other fields that promises to bolster surveillance methods and architectures.