August 14, 2013 Gabriel Perna
article
At Cullman Regional Medical Center (CRMC), a 145-bed facility in Cullman County, Ala., leaders have implemented an iPhone app that helps providers with medication reconciliation, readmission rates, and nursing accuracy and efficiency. President and CEO Jim Weidner explains why this technology was a worthy investment.
August 7, 2013 Gabriel Perna
news
According to the Orem, Utah-based research and consulting firm, KLAS Research, most providers that are using clinical decision support (CDS) surveillance systems say the technology has had a moderate to significant impact on clinical outcomes.
August 6, 2013 Rajiv Leventhal
news
Electronic communications in clinical care will likely not be widely adopted by primary care physicians unless patient workloads are reduced or the doctors are paid for the time they spend using them, according to research from Weill Cornell Medical College, Cornell University's medical school based in New York.
August 5, 2013 Mark Hagland
article
Brian Yeaman, M.D., CMIO at Norman Regional Health System in Norman, Oklahoma, has been involved in helping to lead a transitions of care initiative in his area. Dr. Yeaman was named principal investigator, and the Norman Regional Health System was awarded a federal grant from the ONC. The results have been impressive—and are worth pondering.
July 31, 2013 Rajiv Leventhal
article
Predictive analytics that are currently available often don’t address the real-time aspect of surgery. One hospital system plans to use case-based reasoning (CBR) to help save lives in the operating room.
July 24, 2013 Joe Marion
blog
Microsoft has been getting its share of bad press lately after poor quarterly results and more details on a planned reorganization. Many are saying that Microsoft can’t sustain its dominance with Windows and Office as PC sales stall. It is interesting to speculate as to what healthcare might look like post-Microsoft, given the dominance of PC applications in healthcare. Or, will Microsoft be successful in transforming itself, and all this speculation be for naught?
July 23, 2013 Rajiv Leventhal
article
Stage 2 of the Meaningful Use electronic health records (EHR) incentive program has put the onus on medical groups to further engage their patients. One such medical center in Florida has taken steps to do just that, and more.
July 20, 2013 Mark Hagland
article
Reid Conant, M.D. of the Tri-City Emergency Medical Group, a 23-doctor emergency physician practice in Oceanside, California, shares his perspectives on the role of speech recognition solutions in optimizing physician documentation processes in the emergency medicine sphere. One key point: it’s not about typing ability.
July 16, 2013 Rajiv Leventhal
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As clinical documentation improvement (CDI) has become a strategic imperative at hospitals and health systems, one patient care organization has deployed a unique approach to CDI, using a physician-first technique at the point of care to help providers ensure financial integrity, reduce risk, and improve patient outcomes.
July 15, 2013 Rajiv Leventhal
news
Introduction of a new electronic medical records (EMR) system at Sutter corporation East Bay hospitals has produced multiple problems with safe care delivery that has put patients at risk, charged the California Nurses Association (CNA).
July 13, 2013 Mark Hagland
article
Brian Yeaman, M.D., CMIO of the 500-bed Norman Regional Health System in Norman, Oklahoma, has important thoughts on where physician documentation needs to go, and on the role of speech recognition in optimizing the documentation process. He also shares lessons learned from the Moore tornado disaster of this spring.
July 10, 2013 Rajiv Leventhal
news
Eighty-seven percent of medical transcriptionists indicated that in order to transition to documentation roles in electronic health records (EHRs), new skills and knowledge gaps need to be identified, according to a survey released today by the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) and the Association for Healthcare Documentation Integrity (AHDI).
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