September 25, 2012 Lucio Martinez, M.D.
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Point-of-care decision support technologies such as electronic order sets are central to standardizing care practices and paving the way for the practice of evidence-based medicine. By providing physicians with a checklist to guide care decisions as well as direct access to supporting medical evidence, electronic order sets also help reduce errors and improve quality and core measures performance.
September 2, 2012 David Raths
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Medication optimization, enhanced patient education and early follow-up and care coordination have been shown to lower readmission rates. Now it's up to hospitals to make improvements.
August 29, 2012 Jennifer Prestigiacomo
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Many organizations are moving forward with population health initiatives tackling many problems like reducing preventable readmissions, ED utilization, and frequent flyers. At the core of all of these types of initiatives are a number of common elements, one of them being the ability to provide physicians in practice with real-time data on their patients. However, many challenges remain in how to access these multiple sources of data, and how to make decisions on which IT resources to use to analyze it.
August 21, 2012
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The National Quality Forum (NQF) recently announced that Mountain States Health Alliance (MSHA), a not-for-profit healthcare organization based in Johnson City, Tenn., has been named the recipient of its 2012 National Quality Healthcare Award. The healthcare organization created and implemented ten patient-centered care guiding principles which aim to illustrate safe, customized care, transparently and openly communicated with the patient, family, and caregivers throughout the course of treatment.
August 20, 2012 Mark Hagland
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At the Minneapolis-based Allina Health, a multidisciplinary team has created a groundbreaking dashboard tool for assessing the readmissions risk of individual inpatients—before they’re discharged into the community. Behind the development of a project that made Allina’s Patient Census Dashboard Team a semi-finalist in the HCI Innovator Awards Program in 2012.
August 20, 2012
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A recent study by Wolters Kluwer Health found that Americans are increasingly confident in healthcare technology to reduce medical mistakes. The survey, conducted by research firm IPSOS, found that at of 1,000 U.S. consumers ages 18 and older, 68 percent say that as the medical field continues to adopt new technologies, medical errors should decrease.
August 18, 2012 Mark Hagland
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On a trip to Albuquerque, I shared a ride with Linda Martinez, R.N., a clinical nurse specialist whose work with the groundbreaking Hospital at Home program at Presbyterian Health Services offers insight into the future of the healthcare delivery system.
August 9, 2012 Joe Bormel
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The HCIT challenges elaborated in the context of AF447 remain challenges for us all. They underscore the necessity to move forward: off of paper, off of systems relying on individual human brain power, off of unreliable communications of semantically inoperable health stories, and off of systems without clear databases, shared and common measurement frameworks, and disciplined processes based on solid problem lists.
August 1, 2012 Joe Bormel
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In Part 1 of this series, we reviewed the crash of Air France Flight 447. I noted that from the final report of the tragedy, I developed eight factors that contributed to the loss of everyone aboard that I believe can be directly related to Clinical Decision Support in healthcare IT. Now, let's explore the first four points in-depth to learn how they really do apply to HCIT CDS.
August 1, 2012
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New research from the New York City-based Black Book Research, a research firm, indicates that clinical decision support (CDS) tools will be the highest prioritized system acquisition of hospital IT leaders over the next year. For the survey Black Book surveyed 1340 IT and clinical leaders from hospitals, ACOs, managed care, pharmaceutical manufacturers and physician practices, which found that CDS systems are rapidly growing to improve diagnostic decisions and improve costs.
July 23, 2012 Mark Hagland
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At Saint Luke’s Health System in Kansas City, clinician and IT leaders have created a breakthrough in ensuring patient safety in the operating room, automating a key process for greater quality control
July 20, 2012 Joe Bormel
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Earlier this month, the final crash report on AF447 was released. The implications for HCIT safety, usability and hazard governance are profound. The crash occurred on June 1, 2009. All 228 people onboard were killed, and it took three years to unravel the mysterious components of the story. ... read more...
