August 6, 2012 Joe Marion
blog
I recently read an article in Advance for Imaging & Radiation Oncology, July/Aug 2012 by Shannon Werb, Chief Strategy Officer/COO for Acuo Technologies, entitled “The case for VNA.” Shannon makes the case for differentiating between a PACS vendor VNA (Vendor Neutral Archive) and a VNA offered by a truly independent vendor. The differentiation is made on how interoperable the VNA is in terms of working with all vendor solutions (i.e. “Vendor Neutral”), noting that some so-called VNA’s may merely be an extension of the PACS vendor’s PACS archive.
July 31, 2012 Mark Hagland
blog
The landscape around pharmacy information system implementation has changed so much in the past five years, it’s virtually unrecognizable from half a decade ago. And of course, that means that healthcare IT leaders, now compelled forward by meaningful use under the HITECH Act, and by data collection, reporting, and analysis mandates under federal healthcare reform, are working in a continuously changing environment.
July 25, 2012 Gabriel Perna
article
Johns Hopkins is launching a Center for Population Health IT, which will aim to take healthcare and clinical data and use it for a broader, societal, organizational purpose. The ambitious center will use numerous components from the vast healthcare entity. In this exclusive Q&A, Jonathan Weiner, Ph.D, the center’s director, talks with HCI about his plans for the center, some of the initiatives, and its simultaneously launched partnership with various vendors.
July 23, 2012 Mark Hagland
article
Colin Banas, M.D., CMIO at VCU Health System in Richmond, Va., is trying to make the best of a situation facing healthcare IT leaders in integrated health systems nationwide—how to manage the inpatient-outpatient continuum issues with regard to pharmacy information systems.
July 23, 2012 Mark Hagland
article
Johnanne Ross, PharmD, director of pharmacy IT automation at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) health system, based in Pittsburgh, Pa., has spent more than 12 years participating in informatics work. Ross spoke recently about the latest developments in her work at UPMC and her perspectives on what CIOs, CMIOs, and other healthcare IT leaders should be doing right now around pharmacy informatics.
July 23, 2012 Mark Hagland
article
The realities of evolutionary clinical IT implementation are keeping CIOs, CMIOs, and pharmacist informaticists very busy these days as meaningful use and healthcare reform mandates push healthcare IT leaders to more fully integrate pharmacy information systems with their core EHR/CPOE systems.
July 20, 2012 Joe Bormel
blog
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...
July 17, 2012 Mark Hagland
blog
The tragic outcome in a New York sepsis case involving a promising young 12-year-old ignites interest, and thousands of comments, in The New York Times.
July 16, 2012
news
The American Medical Association (AMA) is working with 60 various organizations in supporting an effort that will aim to help physicians’ better use health insurer-provided data reports as tools to enhance the quality and value of patient care. As part of the effort, the AMA created the "Guidelines for Reporting Physician Data" with input from public and private health insurers, state and specialty medical societies, health standard organizations, and employer and consumer coalitions.
July 8, 2012 Joe Marion
blog
Some EMR vendors choose not to play in the data capture space, and expect documentation to be done manually within the EMR at the expense of similar information automatically acquired by data capture devices. Case in point–consider hemodynamic systems which have classically been the primary point for documentation of cardiac and vascular procedures.
July 6, 2012
news
According to a new report from Burlington, V.T.-based consulting firm, CapSite, 19 percent of providers are planning on replacing their laboratory information system (LIS). The report, “2012 U.S. Laboratory Information System (LIS) Study, is the most recent in a series of CapSite strategic industry reports that have evaluated the impact of the HITECH Act focus on stimulating the adoption of Electronic Health Record (EHR) and Health Information Exchange (HIE) solutions.
