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Systems are rarely tailored to the context of the ED environment and end user needs, findings showed.

The expansion of knowledge in the digital age has been exponential, but clinical teams have to harness it to make it actionable.

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality will dedicate nearly $2 million for the creation of the PCOR Clinical Decision Support Learning Network, aiming to address the barriers hindering the incorporation of patient-centered outcomes research into CDS tools.

As a primer discussion for the 2013 mHealth Summit, mHealth News (@mhealth_news) is hosting a Twitter Chat to discuss the future of mHealth and its role in shaping global health. Taking place at 1 p.m. ET Monday, December 2, the chat will use the hashtag #mHealth13 (the official hashtag for the summit). You can also participate in the chat through the #mHealth13 chat room.

The trend toward value-based payment for healthcare services is gaining momentum. For better or for worse, we have paid for healthcare in the U.S. on a fee-for-service basis – from the perspective of providers (doctors, hospitals, etc.), that means that the more you do, the more you make. Except for efforts around managed care, where a fixed capitated (per-member-per-month) fee is paid to risk-taking organizations for a defined population of patients (the HMO model), fee-for-service has been at the core of how we do business in healthcare.

To combat potential patient harm and reduce the costs from misdiagnosis, hospitals and medical practices are turning to clinical decision support tools.

The final rule for accountable care organizations relieved providers from some of the immediate pressures of establishing health IT, but electronic health records and other technologies will be critical to coordinate care to improve quality and lower costs.

Will accountable care organizations follow the lead of HIEs in analyzing data across participating providers, or surpass them? In this series, we are examining ways health IT can best support the goals of accountable care organizations (ACOs) for health reform.

In response to the April 7 Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) recommendation that medical practitioners who use substantially higher levels of advanced diagnostic imaging services receive Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) approval before being able to provide those services, the Imaging e-Ordering Coalition encourages Medicare officials to instead look to existing clinical decision support tools to reduce costs, increase efficiency, support appropriate use, and improve quality of care in diagnostic imaging.

VHA, Inc. of Irving, Texas has unveiled VIEW, a new, one-step, Web-based search engine for capital equipment that is available to VHA members. The search engine is bolstered by input from Attainia, a...