A meta-review in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association of the effects of health information technology on patient safety outcomes finds only weak evidence for improvement in quality.
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Nov172016
AnalyticsMD doctors up a fresh $13 million in capital for its software to help hospitals manage patient flow.
Research published by Health Services Research finds that most quality measurement systems used today have a very significant risk of mis-categorizing physicians, with as many as 25% being put in the wrong bucket.
Siemens is planning to spin off its health care division, which sells a lot of heavy equipment primarily to hospitals, in an estimated $15 billion deal.
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The Healthy Skeptic is a website about the health care system, and is written by Kevin Roche, who has many years of experience working in the health industry. Mr. Roche is available to assist health care companies through consulting arrangements through Roche Consulting, LLC and may be reached at khroche@healthy-skeptic.com.