May 19, 2012 Mark Hagland
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At Spaulding Hospital in Cambridge, Mass., Joe Sacco, R.Ph., the hospital’s director of pharmacy, has been leading an initiative to optimize medication management through automation. With new Joint Commission and CMS medication labeling mandates in place, Sacco and his colleagues have been leveraging medication management solutions to master tricky and exceptional situations.
May 2, 2012 David Raths
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More than 300 clinicians and researchers gathered April 27 for the 5th Annual Healthcare Informatics Symposium presented by the Center for Biomedical Informatics at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP). Presentation topics ranged from IBM’s Watson supercomputer to clinical decision support to patient and family engagement innovations.
May 1, 2012 Joe Marion
blog
A framework can build consensus and avoid misunderstandings when implementing a VNA. The framework graphs organizational focus against functional purpose, in an attempt to differentiate the particular needs, and potential emphasis of various vendors. Organizationally, initiatives can be focused around the needs of a single service area such as radiology, and primarily driven by the clinical service area.
April 17, 2012
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Nonprofit health system Texas Health Resources (Arlington, Texas) and evidence-based healthcare infrastructure company, Healthways (Nashville, Tenn.) are unveiling a new population health-based model, aiming to improve healthcare delivery and access in North Texas. The companies will create a collaborative in an attempt to optimize clinical care and enable individuals to become engaged participants in their healthcare.
April 16, 2012
news
Researchers from Indiana University and the Indianapolis-based Regenstrief Institute have developed an automated system aimed at helping enable pediatricians to focus on the specific health needs of each patient in the short time allotted for preventive care. The systems comes on the heels of a new study, “Automated Primary Care Screening in Pediatric Waiting Rooms,” in the May 2012 issue of Pediatrics which found personalizing and automating the patient screening process and then alerting the physician to positive results of risk factors enables them to direct attention to the particular needs of the individual child and the child’s family.
April 9, 2012
blog
.....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 find it ironic that after investing money and effort in an EMR implementation, many organizations are still handing out paper forms to collect history, insurance updates and HIPAA acknowledgements.
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 31, 2012
blog
This past weekend was the American College of Cardiology’s annual meeting held in Chicago March 24-27. This year was an exciting year as there were major product announcements, but disappointing in that cardiology still appears to lag in terms of integrated cardiovascular information systems that will be essential to addressing ARRA/MU and the changing healthcare environment!
March 20, 2012 Gabriel Perna
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Research studies and the healthcare industry go together like peanut butter and jelly. As long as medical research institutions have existed, there have been countless studies attempting to prove and disprove every little thing under the sun related to healthcare.
March 19, 2012
blog
Several recent enterprise imaging engagements have encompassed Pathology as an opportunity for digital image management, and they have afforded me the opportunity to gain a better appreciation for the state of the Digital Pathology market. From this experience, I am reminded of the similar experience in the early days of Radiology when the transition was made from film to digital images. The question is how similar will Pathology be, and can we learn from Radiology’s experience?
March 14, 2012
blog
I am currently engaged with a number of clients in various stages of the acquisition of some form of enterprise image management application. In some recent conversations with several vendors, I am surprised at the number of “Request for Proposals” or RFP’s that these vendors are receiving from various facilities. As a result, I am rethinking the acceptance rate of healthcare providers for addressing image management in the enterprise!
