Quality and Medical Informatics
Press Coverage
Press Releases
- Electronic Health Record System Continues to Improve Prescribing Safety Over Time (May 3, 2013—scroll down)
- Researchers Identify Ways to Improve Quality of Care Measurement from Electronic Health Records (January 15, 2013)
- New Master's Program in Health Informatics at Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences (October 22, 2012)
- Electronic Health Records Shown to Improve the Quality of Patient Care (October 9, 2012)
- Electronic Health Records Hold Promise in Improving Quality Care (September 27, 2012)
- Weill Cornell Seeks Fix for Ailing Healthcare System (April 6, 2012)
- Weill Cornell Medical College Establishes Center for Healthcare Informatics and Policy (March 30, 2012)
- First Students of Innovative Health IT Program Graduate (June 29, 2011)
- National Coordinator for Health IT hails graduates as new leaders to deploy health IT (June 24, 2011)
- Newer Electronic Health Record Systems Reduce Rx Errors, but Doctors Find the Switch Difficult (May 26, 2011)
- Health Information Technology: Human-ware, Not Software (September 30, 2010)
- Weill Cornell Accepting Applications for Health IT Certificate Program (August 19, 2010)
- Electronic Prescriptions Reduce Errors by Seven-Fold (February 26, 2010)
- New Diabetes Screening Tool Promotes Early Detection in Adults (December 1, 2009)
- New York State Health IT Strategy May Be Model for the Nation (March 10, 2009)
- Weill Cornell Medical College Names Five Clinical Scholars, Recognizing Outstanding Junior Faculty (January 22, 2007)
- New Methodology Gives Weill Cornell Team Insights into Psychological Value of Cardiac Stress Testing (March 31, 2005)
- Bone Density Screening May Reduce Hip Fracture Risk (January 31, 2005)
Media Coverage
- Electronic prescribing with clinical decision support reduces medication errors in community-based practices (AHRQ Research Activities, September 2010, No. 361)
- Study: E-prescribing cuts medication errors by seven-fold (Cornell Chronicle, March 30, 2010)
- Small Patients, Big Consequences in Medical Errors (The New York Times, September 15, 2008) Article quotes Dr. Rainu Kaushal, Director of the Division of Quality and Clinical Informatics.