CHCF will fund 20 implementations of the HL7-approved ELINCS specification. Successful projects will deliver lab results data to clinical information systems. Proposals are due August 28, 2008.

Regional health information exchanges are a critical -- but often missing -- piece of the health care system. CHCF has donated open-source code to Open Health Tools to spark development of more exchanges.

June 21, 2007

New England Hospital Posts Patient Outcome Surveys on Web Site

Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center's Web site provides data on the percentage of patients who experienced symptom relief after surgery and whether they would chose surgery again, CBS' "Evening News" reports. Patients use hospital laptops to complete surveys that are used to compile the data.

Physicians at the medical center said the Web site resulted in fewer surgeries because the decision to operate is based more on patient preference than surgeon preference.

Beginning Friday, Medicare will post on its Web site a hospital report card with information about survival rates for heart attacks and heart failure. At least 20 states provide similar online data, the "Evening News" reports.

The segment includes comments from:

• William Abdu of Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center;
• Jim Conway of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement; and
• Patients receiving care at Dartmouth-Hitchcock (Andrews, "Evening News," CBS, 6/20).
  

Video of the segment and expanded CBS News coverage are available online.

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