Top Stories

Managing Imaging Informatics Processes in a Multispecialty, Urban Group Practice Setting

Mark Hagland
Managing the flow of and access to diagnostic images and diagnostic imaging reports can become almost infinitely complex in some organizations. One multispecialty physician group in New York City, Manhattan's Physician Group, has leveraged IT to master its imaging informatics processes.

Are State AGs Already Becoming More Aggressive on HIPAA?

By David Raths
In January, Minnesota Attorney General Lori Swanson filed a lawsuit against consulting firm Accretive Health Inc., which last summer lost an unencrypted laptop that contained medical data on 23,500 Minnesotans. The state wants Accretive to disclose to Minnesota patients the data that it has about them, where and how such data is stored, including but not limited to whether it has been sent overseas, and how such data is utilized.

D.C. Report: Health Spending to Increase, MGMA Calls for 5010 Delay

Jeff Smith, Assistant Director of Advocacy at CHIME
Washington was abuzz this week with the release of the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) 2012 outlook. According to the annual report, CBO’s regular baseline (which is set based on current law) would result in $3 trillion of accumulated deficits from 2013 through 2022.

Hot Topics

Premier Healthcare Alliance Charts Nationwide Performance Gains

Creating Multidisciplinary Teams for Patient Safety

Getting the Message, Securely

HIE Sustainability Built on Solid Use Cases

Unsecured Mobile Devices: The Weak Link?

Maine, Others Receive Electronic Health Record Sharing Grant

February 7, 2012    
news
The Center for Integrated Health Solutions awarded the State of Maine and HealthInfoNet, which operates its statewide health information exchange (HIE), a $600,000 grant to help support electronic sharing of health records among behavioral health providers and general medical providers in Maine. The CIHS is funded by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) and the Health Resources Services Administration (HRSA). Maine was one of only five states to be selected along with Kentucky, Illinois, Oklahoma, and Rhode Island.

Premier Expands QUEST Collaborative

February 7, 2012    
news
The Charlotte-based Premier Healthcare Alliance's QUEST: High Performing Hospitals collaborative has expanded from 157 charter members to include 293 hospitals across 40 states, an 87 percent increase in participation since the project began.

Leveraging the EMR for Clinical Science

February 7, 2012     Gabriel Perna
article
In the world of medical research, the emergence of the electronic medical record (EMR) in hospitals is a game-changer, giving researchers the opportunity to use large, previously unobtainable data sets for their studies. You don’t have to tell that to Atul Butte, M.D., director for the Center for Pediatric Bioinformatics at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital (Palo Alto, Calif.) and associate professor at Stanford University School of Medicine.

ONC Gets Feedback on MU Barriers

February 7, 2012     David Raths
blog
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT has undertaken an effort to identify and analyze barriers to successfully achieving meaningful use.

Health Evolution Partners, Verizon Team on mHealth

February 6, 2012    
news
Health Evolution Partners (HEP), a San Francisco-based global investing firm, and New York-based Verizon Enterprise Solutions have established a strategic relationship to encourage innovation and adoption of connected health information technologies that help drive patient care improvements and better manage costs.

Advocacy Corner

D.C. Report: Health Spending to Increase, MGMA Calls for 5010 Delay

February 6, 2012     Jeff Smith, Assistant Director of Advocacy at CHIME

D.C. Report: Healthcare Leaders Meet at Care Innovations Summit, AMA Wants to Stop ICD-10

January 31, 2012     Jeff Smith, Assistant Director of Advocacy at CHIME
See all CHIME stories

Mobile Health Remote Monitoring: A Coming Wave?

February 6, 2012     Mark Hagland
blog
Juniper Research, a Hampshire, U.K.-based market research firm, last week announced the publication of a new report on mobile health (mHealth). According to Juniper’s highlight findings, the number of patients worldwide who will be able to take advantage of increasing smartphone processing power in order to have their conditions remotely monitored will rise to 3 million by 2016.

Dramatically Improving Stroke Care Outcomes

February 6, 2012     Mark Hagland
article
The potential now exists to dramatically improve the outcomes of patients admitted to hospital emergency departments with acute ischemic stroke symptoms. But actually making those improvements will rely on enabling a particular combination of process, information technology, and medical technology changes first.

Are State AGs Already Becoming More Aggressive on HIPAA?

February 6, 2012     By David Raths
blog
In January, Minnesota Attorney General Lori Swanson filed a lawsuit against consulting firm Accretive Health Inc., which last summer lost an unencrypted laptop that contained medical data on 23,500 Minnesotans. The state wants Accretive to disclose to Minnesota patients the data that it has about them, where and how such data is stored, including but not limited to whether it has been sent overseas, and how such data is utilized.

How Much Does One Earth Second Really Matter?

February 4, 2012     Mark Hagland
blog
Clinical informaticists are finding that the route to success in developing evidence-based order sets within advanced clinical decision support systems really does mean sweating the little things.

Health IT Company Goes Public

February 3, 2012    
news
The biggest initial public offering (IPO) news this week has of course been the announcement about Facebook going public. However, the popular social networking company isn’t the only one who is hitting the stock market. Greenway Medical Technologies, Inc., which provides an integrated, single-database electronic health record (EHR), practice management and interoperability software solution, recently announced it went public.
See all latest stories

Blogs

ONC Gets Feedback on MU Barriers

February 7, 2012     David Raths
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT has undertaken an effort to identify and analyze barriers to successfully achieving meaningful use.

VNA’s: Match Capabilities to the Need

February 6, 2012    
Understanding VNA objectives aids in knowing how to apply industry standards

Mobile Health Remote Monitoring: A Coming Wave?

February 6, 2012     Mark Hagland
Juniper Research, a Hampshire, U.K.-based market research firm, last week announced the publication of a new report on mobile health (mHealth). According to Juniper’s highlight findings, the number of patients worldwide who will be able to take advantage of increasing smartphone processing power in order to have their conditions remotely monitored will rise to 3 million by 2016.

Are State AGs Already Becoming More Aggressive on HIPAA?

February 6, 2012     By David Raths
1
In January, Minnesota Attorney General Lori Swanson filed a lawsuit against consulting firm Accretive Health Inc., which last summer lost an unencrypted laptop that contained medical data on 23,500 Minnesotans. The state wants Accretive to disclose to Minnesota patients the data that it has about them, where and how such data is stored, including but not limited to whether it has been sent overseas, and how such data is utilized.
See all blog posts

 Vendor Corner

HP

Kronos

InterSystems

fdb First Databank

Intel

CareFusion

TeraMedica