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For Erin Moore, keeping her son’s cystic fibrosis in check requires careful monitoring to prevent the thick, sticky mucous his body produces from further damaging his lungs and digestive system. Moore keeps tabs on 6-year-old Drew’s weight, appetite, exercise and stools every day to see if they stray from his healthy baseline. When he develops a cough, she tracks that, too. It’s been nearly a year since Drew has been hospitalized; as a baby he was admitted up to four times annually. Erin Moore credits her careful monitoring, aided by an online data tracking tool from a program at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center called the Orchestra Project, with helping to keep him healthy. (Andrews, 4/5)

If things seem a little slow at Massachusetts General Hospital this week, blame the computers. Mass. General, a flagship teaching hospital of Partners HealthCare, launched a new electronic health records system over the weekend, part of a $1.2 billion upgrade over several years across the Partners system. (Dayal McCluskey, 5/5)