Patients across England will benefit from clearer, more reliable communication from the NHS under a new set of minimum standards ...

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 ...

NHS England » NHS to overhaul patient communications and end ‘farce’ of invitations arriving after appointment ...

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 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 ...

Patients without standard modifiable cardiovascular risk factors (SMuRFs) who present with acute MI are at an increased risk of dying when compared with those who present with at least one risk factor ...

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 ...