Founded in 1951, The Joint Commission accredits and certifies more than 20,500 health care organizations and programs in the United...

standards that many believe are not applicable to their specialty. In the broadest of terms, "meaningful use" is a listing of...

It can be difficult to convince people that medical synoptic reporting is necessary without coming off like a pedantic nerd. No one likes...

The study, entitled "Impact of Bilateral Versus Unilateral Mastectomy on Short Term Outcomes and Adjuvant Therapy, 2003-2010: A Report...

The battle rages on in the war against breast cancer, and yet every day we learn more about how to effectively combat the enemy. By...

"When we create digital records and pretend to anticipate all the needs of clinicians, we make mistakes," Reider said. "We think we’ve...

For many years, the best solution to solving all of these problems surrounding reporting was using dictation and transcription. Dictation...

In the post, Reider lists multiple reasons why health IT is different than most other technology offerings - certainly from the type...

"Crises Precipitate Change." - Deltron 3030 Healthcare workers have recently been hit by a tidal wave of changes to their occupations....

In 2008, Cancer Care Ontario (CCO), backed by CPAC, began its Pathology Reporting Initiative to ensure that pathologists were uniformly...

Both are methods for documenting occurrences and events in providing treatment to patients, and both are widely in use by various...

In a great post on Caristix.com, Sovita Chander writes about the reasoning for the high costs of healthcare interfaces and the unique...

But what does this all have to do with health information technology? How does the rise of the consolidated megastore tie in to the...

- Anne Marie Bickmore, RN Despite all the advancements in technology, science, medicine, and a myriad other fields, cancer remains a...

There are numerous reasons (most of them sensible, fair, and well-intentioned) for capturing so much information and having it in a...

The procedure, known as Radioactive Seed Localization, is less invasive than the current method that uses wire localization. In that more...

Cancer Care Ontario (CCO) recently posted a definition of synoptic pathology reporting, including why they have implemented it and how it...

As Dr. Misialek states: You can request a meeting with me, you can ask — as Mrs. C did — to review your pathology, whatever the...

HL7 Clinical Document Architecture (CDA) has been around for many years, but recently it has resurfaced as part of meaningful use...

The CoC recently posted the following video to help people better understand the standards for Pathology Reporting (based on the CAP's...