The cure for the traditional, fractured approach to treating polychronic conditions is bringing multi-specialty care to the patient—in their own home. The disease burden of chronic conditions has been ...

A Health and Human Services agency is encouraging healthcare providers, public health agencies and other organizations to consider adopting a new data standard for documenting patient addresses in ...

Data standards are the principal informatics component necessary for information flow through the national health information infrastructure. With common standards, clinical and patient safety systems ...

A multicenter clinical trial led by researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center has found that implanting collagen tiles during brain surgery to deliver targeted radiation therapy ...

DirectTrust has launched an initiative to develop a new standard to support a voluntary nationwide patient credential and matching ecosystem. DirectTrust is a non-profit healthcare industry alliance ...

The Match IT Act of 2024, now before Congress, would create a federal definition for 'patient match rate' that providers would address as they would a clinical quality measurement A new bill before ...

Americans should be able to count on receiving health care that is safe. To this end, a new health care delivery system is needed—one that both prevents errors and incorporates lessons learned from ...