Government and Regulations

More Hospitals Learning to Share; Expanding Research Into PTSD and TBI; ED Visits for CNS Stimulant Abuse on the Rise; Talking About Suicide Matters; Decline in Childhood Obesity

For every 10 hospitals, 6 exchanged electronic health information with other providers and hospitals in 2012, a 41% jump since 2008, according to research from the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, published August 5, 2013, in their publication Health Affairs.


 

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