May 7, 2012 Jennifer Prestigiacomo
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In this podcast, live from the HCI Executive Summit, Dr. Bobbie Byrne, vice president of IT of Edward Hospital discusses how her organization is approaching data warehousing and the integration of clinical systems necessary for this initative. This podcast was recorded after Dr. Byrne's panel, "Beyond the Data Warehouse: Strategizing the Use and Analysis of Clinical Data for Meaningful Use," a the Healthcare Informatics Executive Summit being held May 6 through the 8 at the World Center Marriott in Orlando. Bryne was joined on the panel by colleagues Rick Schooler, vice president and CIO at Orlando Health; Dr. George Reynolds, CMIO and CIO of Children’s Hospital and Medical Center; and Patricia Skarulis, vice president, Information Systems and CIO, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center.
May 3, 2012 Gabriel Perna
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In a two-part interview series, James McGee M.D., talks about how virtual patient simulation, a web-enabled software solution that allows for diagnostic simulated training, can be used for ACOs and PCMHs. In the first part of the interview, McGee talked about how patient simulations fit an ACO, the clinical decision elements in a virtual atmosphere, and he goes in-depth about the Veteran Health Administration's patient simulation system in particular.
April 24, 2012
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The healthcare arm of Royal Philips Electronics (Andover, Mass.) and telepresence manufacturer Vidyo (Hackensack, N.J.) are teaming up to offer healthcare providers an enterprise-wide telehealth solution. According to Philips Healthcare, deployment of these telehealth solutions will require scalable and flexible video technology to adapt to the full range of clinical workstations and mobile devices. Vidyo’s adaptive video layering technology will be implemented into Philips enterprise-wide solution with remote physiologic monitoring and clinical decision support (CDS).
April 18, 2012 David Raths
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A March 2012 paper published in the Journal of Patient Safety and an upcoming conference raise the question: Would it make sense to create the equivalent of the National Transportation Safety Board for healthcare?
April 10, 2012 Jennifer Prestigiacomo
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In an age of tighter hospital budgets and policy pressures, the Charlotte, N.C.-based Premier healthcare alliance has created an efficiency dashboard and reporting mechanism to identify 15 different categories of potential savings opportunities in hospitals. “The goal here was really to create a roadmap so that health systems could identify first the opportunities for savings and then go after them,” said Susan DeVore, Premier president and CEO, in a telephonic press briefing on April 10. “We think this is a first of a kind, focused efficiency and waste dashboard.”
April 10, 2012 Mark Hagland
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Leaders at Augusta Health in northern Virginia have made pioneering advances in developing tools to assess the potential for the readmission of high-risk inpatients. What they've learned is potentially industry-changing; and their leveraging of clinical IT tools for performance improvement offers a path forward for their hospital organization peers nationwide.
April 9, 2012
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.....only clinician involvement can orchestrates the process by which clinicians are “integrated” in the process of delivery of quality-centered care. An obstructionist clinician team can derail an otherwise successful HIT adoption project and/or your EHR application implementation.
April 4, 2012
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I don’t understand why application vendors place little importance on reporting requirements. I get the fact that customers like to customize their reports, but why not make that an inherent feature? Maybe that is why the market is constantly creating so many 3rd party Business Intelligence (BI) vendors. But what about Clinical Intelligence (CI) requirements?
March 22, 2012
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The New York City-based Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC) and IBM (New York City) are collaborating on the use of IBM’s Watson technology to help create a decision support tool will help doctors everywhere create individualized cancer diagnostic and treatment recommendations for their patients based on current evidence.
February 28, 2012 Mark Hagland
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Jerry Osheroff, M.D., principal at TMIT Consulting in Cherry Hill, N.J., the lead author of Improving Medication Use and Outcomes with Clinical Decision Support: A Step-by-Step Guide and the chair of the HIMSS Clinical Decision Support Workgroup and Task Force (sponsored by the Chicago-based Health Information and Management Systems Society), has spent years collaborating with physicians and others to move forward important clinical decision support (CDS) concepts and embed them into clinical information systems in order to improve patient care.
February 21, 2012 Gabriel Perna
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With 20-plus years of experience in the medical informatics field, Khalid Moidu, MD, PhD, director of medical informatics at Orlando Health, has seen a lot. As a physician and someone with a PhD in clinical informatics, Dr. Moidu can safely say he sees both sides of HIT implementation, clinical and IT, within the walls of a hospital. At this week’s HIMSS12 conference in Las Vegas, Moidu discussed with HCI how seeing both sides allowed him to successfully push for a diagnosis decision support system (DDSS) within Orlando Health.
February 21, 2012 John DeGaspari
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During the Monday session on performance measurement and CDS, Paul Tang, M.D., vice president and chief medical officer of Palo Alto Medical Foundation and is vice chair of the federal Health IT Policy Committee, gave his perspective on the approach taken with Stage 1 meaningful use, and the direction for future stages.
