February 12, 2013 Joe Marion
blog
A lot is being written on Interoperability lately. Achieving it depends not only on vendor cooperation but also on facility insistence.
February 4, 2013 David Raths
blog
The growth in the rate of prescriptions written electronically is a huge success story. But at the Jan. 29 joint hearing of the federal HIT Policy Committee and HIT Standards Committee, attendees were reminded that sending structured lab data is a bigger challenge, in part due to the highly fragmented nature of the laboratory market.
January 28, 2013 Gabriel Perna
article
From the minute any clinician steps into their professional environment, they know the importance of hand hygiene. Yet, for some reason, gaps in hygiene compliance remain a problem at many medical facilities across the country, with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reporting that 90,000 die in the U.S. each year from hospital-acquired infections (HAIs). For this reason, Shannon Medical Center, a 400-bed hospital in San Angelo, Texas, implemented an automated radio-frequency identification (RFID)-based hand-hygiene monitoring system.
January 23, 2013 David Raths
blog
The free, peer-reviewed e-publication's inaugural issue includes a paper on the effort to create an EHR-linked multicenter registry
January 21, 2013 Mark Hagland
article
Earlier this month, the leaders of HIMSS Analytics issued a press release announcing significant gains in the percentages of U.S. hospitals reaching advanced stages in electronic health record adoption. What's behind the forward advance?
January 16, 2013 Mark Hagland
article
Kenneth Bertka, M.D. has been helping to lead his colleagues at Mercy Health Partners, and its parent health system, Catholic Health Partners, forward on data-driven population health management. A key lesson learned? Take everything one step at a time.
January 10, 2013 Gabriel Perna
news
According to analysis from members of the Santa Monica, Calif.-based non-profit research organization, the RAND Corporation, the cost-savings coming from the installation of health IT systems such as EMRs has not been reached because of slow adoption, and a lack of inter-connectivity and ease-of-use.
December 28, 2012 Gabriel Perna
article
Every resident at a hospital knows of the morning report, a time-honored tradition that as Niket Sonpal, M.D., chief resident at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City says, is as “old as taking a pill.” Recently, Sonpal decided to bring that tradition to the 21st century by investing in an interactive digital platform that covers the concepts in morning report. He talks with HCI exclusively about this initiative.
December 27, 2012 Rajiv Leventhal
news
NYU Langone Medical Center is set to reopen today, nearly two months after it was flooded by Superstorm Sandy, causing the hospital to evacuate hundreds of patients.
December 21, 2012 Joe Marion
blog
I have been watching with interest the outcome of a recent announcement that the Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE USA) (http://iheusa.org/) has contracted with ICSA Labs, a for-profit division of Verizon (https://www.icsalabs.com/) for certification of IHE profiles. On the surface, this sounds like a good thing, but dig deeper and it raises a number of interesting questions with respect to intent and motive.
December 4, 2012 David Raths
article
On Dec. 4, the team of researchers at IDC Health Insights unveiled their predictions about hot trends for 2013, many of which have implications for CIOs and CMIOs at hospitals and health systems.
