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HHS Launches Health IT Challenge to Improve Care Transitions for Hospital-discharge Patients

January 2, 2012 - The National Coordinator for Health Information Technology has announced a Discharge Follow-Up Appointment care transitions challenge – the second as part of the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) Investing in Innovation (i2) Initiative. With the support of Health 2.0 and Partnership for Patients, ONC launched the Discharge Follow-Up Appointment challenge in support of ONC’s Investing in Innovation (i2) program.

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Best Practices in Patient Safety Still Have Room for Improvement

January 31, 2012 - More than a decade since the Institute of Medicine called attention to the problem of patient safety, with its To Err is Human report indicating as many as 98,000 lives were lost annually as a result of medical errors in hospitals, the institute’s latest paper reports improvements have moved at a glacial pace.

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AHRQ: Most Healthcare Dollars Still Spent on Small Part of Population

January 27, 2012 - Only 1 percent of the population accounted for 21.8 percent of total U.S. healthcare spending of $1.26 trillion in 2009, racking up an annual mean expenditure of $90,061, while the lower 50 percent of the population accounted for only 2.9 percent of expenditures, according to a new Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) report.

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Study Examines Research on Overuse of Health Care Services

January 23, 2012 - The overuse of health care services in the United States appears to be an understudied problem with research literature limited to a few services and rates of overuse varying widely, according to an article published in the January 23 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals. This article is part of the journal’s Less is More series.

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CDC Issues Clinical Reminder About Proper Use of Insulin Pens

January 13, 2012 - The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has released a new clinical reminder about the use of insulin pens.

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