September 27, 2012 Joe Marion
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There is a degree of complexity and issues facing healthcare providers as they wrestle with the changing regulatory environment. Both facilities and equipment providers are wrestling with moving off of Windows XP as support is quickly ending. It is more extensive than the operating system, as browser versions can be just as big a problem. It is sort of a catch 22 though. If IT vendors begin delivering applications that are supported on newer operating systems/browsers, but the facility’s update plans are not consistent, will the consequence be an inability to deploy technology necessary for ARRA/MU compliance?
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 19, 2012 Pete Rivera
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Based on a WSJ Opinion piece EMR software is “is generally clunky, frustrating, user-unfriendly and inefficient.” Although I will not disagree with this “generalization,” I do take exception with the articles naïve view that Health IT systems have not improved patient health.
September 14, 2012 Joe Marion
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Understanding system workflows is key to keeping Interoperability from becoming a four-letter word. Regardless of approach (singular database or multiple data sources), the goal should be the same: enabling patient information accessibility both within and between facilities.
September 7, 2012 Gabriel Perna
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Organizations across the country are seeing the benefits of investing in patient education systems as a way to get their patient more engaged and informed. Leading institutions like UPMC and Cadence Health are realizing that a patient that has more information is unlikely to have a negative outcome.
September 4, 2012 Jennifer Prestigiacomo
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Seventy-seven percent of surveyed CIOs said that their healthcare organizations are using data analytics software, according to a joint survey published last week by CHIME and eHealth Initiative. What was consistent across respondents (93 percent) was the fact that data and analytics were “very important” to the future of their organization; however, only 28 percent of organizations have what it takes to meet analytics requirements.
August 29, 2012 Joe Marion
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I have been reading several posts attempting to interpret the impact of the final ruling for ARRA/MU Stage 2, and the absence of imaging. As best I can conclude, the “image” of imaging is one of total confusion!
August 27, 2012
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According to a research report from the Orem, Utah-based KLAS, approximately 30 percent of healthcare providers with an infection control system say even though they couldn't live without it, there are tradeoffs. The findings were released in a KLAS report, Infection Control 2012: Breaking the Barriers and Getting Value, also found that 70 percent of those without a solution haven't been able to justify the expense.
August 18, 2012 Mark Hagland
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Presbyterian Health Services’ Melanie Van Amsterdam, M.D., talks about the groundbreaking Hospital at Home program that she and her clinician and administrative colleagues have created and are evolving forward in the Albuquerque area, a program whose patient outcomes and cost-effectiveness results have national implications for population health and care management initiatives health system-wide.
August 16, 2012 Joe Marion
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Consumer electronics can impact healthcare applications. Will the outcome of the Apple-Samsung trial impact healthcare IT innovation?
August 15, 2012 Jennifer Prestigiacomo
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In our post-ACA world, healthcare organizations large and small are on the gradual path toward forming accountable care organizations (ACO) to provide value-based care for patient populations. A small pilot at the Cleveland Clinic Heart & Vascular Institute and the Cleveland Clinic Bariatric & Metabolic Institute is showing the possibilities for clinical registries to synthesize data from different sources into a common understandable format to track high-risk patients and manage patient populations for ACOs.
August 14, 2012
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Catholic Health Initiatives (CHI), the Englewood, Colo.-based faith-based health system, has announced it is using a Premier healthcare alliance app on the PremierConnect integrated performance platform connecting 42 of its hospitals with clinical data. The initiative is an effort to integrate and compare patient-level quality, safety, and financial outcomes data with 800 other providers across the U.S. to reduce hospital-acquired conditions, mortality, readmissions and costs.
