January 5, 2012 Mark Hagland
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The lead medical informaticist at a Toronto hospital discusses the topic of evidence-based order sets and the processes that he and his colleagues have been involved in, in their effort to bring evidence-based ordering, in an automated setting, to their clinical operations.
November 4, 2011 Celebrating the 2011 HCI Innovator Awards
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The Healthcare Informatics 2011 Innovator Awards at this year's HIMSS Conference in Orlando was a smashing success. The reception, which was sponsored by HP, Intel , HCL, and 4th Source, was held at the Loews Portofino Hotel, and was well attended by executives from both hospital organizations and industry-leading vendors.
November 2, 2011 Jennifer Prestigiacomo
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Rolling out computerized physician order entry (CPOE) in one hospital is challenging enough, let alone in 26 hospitals over 28 months, like the Adventist Health System (AHS) accomplished earlier this year. AHS (based in Orlando at its flagship, Florida Hospital) achieved this feat by engaging hospital leadership at each institution and adhering to a consistent CPOE deployment methodology.
September 30, 2011 Jennifer Prestigiacomo
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Building on the success of its closed-loop medication management process, Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) has gone a step further to add safety measures and precise linking capabilities in is chemotherapy medication orders.
August 16, 2011 Jennifer Prestigiacomo
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According to a recent report from the Orem, Utah-based KLAS Research, computerized physician order entry (CPOE) rates have grown almost 168 percent after the passage of the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act/Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (ARRA-HITECH).
August 6, 2011 Mark Hagland
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The use of evidence-based order sets within computerized physician order entry (CPOE) systems is expanding rapidly these days, spurred on by requirements under meaningful use, the development of accountable care organization (ACO) and medical home models under healthcare reform, and a general movement forward towards evidence-based medicine and advanced clinical decision support.
July 5, 2011 Mark Hagland
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As more and more patient care organizations move forward to implement the use of evidence-based order sets for electronic physician ordering, their leaders are learning a variety of lessons about what works best, and how best to plan their go-lives within the context of computerized physician order entry (CPOE) implementation within the electronic health record (EHR).
June 30, 2011 Jennifer Prestigiacomo
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To enhance safety during the drug ordering process, Phoenix Children's Hospital undertook a detailed and targeted project to build a robust pediatric dose range checking solution within their electronic health record (EHR). Because of the strategy, goals, breadth, and impact of the “Strive for Zero Prescription Errors” initiative, it has been recognized as the second-place winner of the IT Innovation Advocate Award awarded at the HCI Executive Summit in May.
May 26, 2011 Mark Hagland
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When Lucile Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford (LPCH), in Palo Alto, Calif., went live with computerized physician order entry (CPOE) in the fall of 2007, healthcare IT leaders there were able to “stand on the shoulders” of other children's hospitals that had rolled out CPOE in the years immediately prior. So there was already experience with some of the particular challenges of CPOE go-lives in the pediatric environment, including with a specific vendor solution, says Christopher A. Longhurst, M.D., LPCH's CMIO.
May 26, 2011 Mark Hagland
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The Los Angeles-based Zynx Health, founded in 1996 (and since 2004, a subsidiary of the Hearst Corp.), has lately seen its core product-evidence-based and consensus-based physician order sets-in demand as never before, given the forward evolution of the meaningful use process under the federal Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act. For instance, a draft requirement under Stage 2 of meaningful use is for the use of evidence-based order sets (as of press time, the industry was still waiting for the final Stage 2 requirements to be issued); and the emergence of accountable care organizations under healthcare reform is adding yet another market opportunity.
May 12, 2011 Jennifer Prestigiacomo
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Mat Kendall, M.P.H., director of the Office of Provider Adoption Support at the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC), discussed how the ONC was more than half way toward its provider goal and continued to encourage adoption of EHRs on a federal and state level. According to Kendall, 65,000 providers have enrolled in the 62 regional extension centers (RECs) across the country, on track with ONC expectations. Kendall mentioned that states like South Carolina and Massachusetts have already exceeded provider target numbers, while other states like Mississippi, Maine, and Rhode Island are close to achieving their goals.
May 11, 2011 David Raths
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At the May 11, 2011 meeting of the federal Health IT Policy Committee, the Meaningful Use Work Group presented its Stage 2 draft proposals that call for 10 new objectives, increased thresholds on others such as CPOE and e-prescribing, and an array of timing options for the committee to choose from. After gathering more feedback from the public and the committee, the MU Work Group will present final Stage 2 recommendations for Policy Committee approval on June 8.
