May 10, 2011 Pete Rivera
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If you have been around Healthcare IT for a few years you soon realize that there are two IT areas; Hospital and Ambulatory. The primary reason this exists is the differences in how each area views reimbursement, including reimbursement rate for procedures, professional fees, DRG’s, length of stays, and claim lag days. From a technology perspective, the line is truly blurred when you think about how ambulatory services has evolved over the years. Many procedures that required hospital admission and longer length of stays are pushed to the ambulatory setting.
April 26, 2011 Mark Hagland
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Among the small number of integrated health systems to complete the attestation process on April 18, the first day in which attestation of the fulfillment of the stage 1 requirements for meaningful use under the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act was possible, was the 11-hospital, 24-facility, 4,100-bed Texas Health Resources (THR), based in Arlington, Tex.
April 19, 2011 Mark Hagland
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Among the first CIOs in the country to complete the attestation process on April 18, the first day in which attestation of the fulfillment of the Stage 1 requirements for meaningful use under the HITECH Act was possible, was Michael Sauk, vice president and CIO of the 468-bed University of Wisconsin Hospitals & Clinics in Madison, Wis.
April 13, 2011 Jennifer Prestigiacomo
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One-third of surveyed members of the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME), based in Ann Arbor, Mich., expect to qualify for stimulus funding under the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act in the first year of the program, according to a March 2011 survey.
March 29, 2011 Mark Hagland
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Among the integrated healthcare systems around the nation whose leaders have committed firmly and publicly to continuous quality transformation has been Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare, a seven-hospital system based in Memphis. The system has received numerous recognitions for its quality of care, and has been a leader in receiving incentive payments from the Hospital Quality Incentive Demonstration (HQID) program, co-sponsored by the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services and the Charlotte-based Premier Inc. health alliance.
February 23, 2011 Mark Hagland
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Jeffrey Rose, M.D., vice president of clinical excellent at Ascension Health, the vast, St. Louis-based nationwide health system, says he believes that a turning point has been reached with regard to physicians coming to accept the inevitability of providing accountable, transparent, evidence-based care (he and his colleagues have partnered with the Los Angeles-based ZynxHealth to disseminate and customize evidence-based order sets into CPOE throughout their 67-hospital system).
February 21, 2011 John Degaspari
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Hospitals, medical groups, and health systems have taken a page from the playbook of manufacturing and other industries to achieve measurable improvements in care quality and the bottom line.
February 15, 2011 Mark Hagland
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A report recently released by the Framingham, Mass.-based advisory services and market research firm IDC Health Insights has projected spending on both ambulatory and inpatient EMR software to nearly double between 2009 and 2015, driven forward strongly and primarily by the stimulus monies to be made available through the federal American Reinvestment and Recovery Act/Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (ARRA-HITECH).
December 28, 2010 Mark Hagland
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Healthcare IT leaders nationwide are moving forward steadily to introduce evidence-based care tools into clinician workflows, both with regard to the development of order sets in computerized physician order entry (CPOE) systems, as well as in the context of the medical diagnosis process. As they advance in these areas, they are finding that building everything from scratch is simply too labor-intensive a prospect. And as hospitals and medical groups turn increasingly to the commercially sponsored offerings available, they are finding the insertion of evidence-based decision support to be a plus in winning doctors over to CPOE adoption.
December 6, 2010
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This past week, I had the pleasure and honor to spend four hours on medical attending rounds at a major integrated health system in the Northeast I’ll call IHS. It’s top rated in several national performance initiatives with well recognized brands and, like all other great systems, publishes very respectable performance in quality, cost and access metrics.
November 28, 2010 Jennifer Prestigiacomo
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Each year, HIMSS recognizes exceptional achievement in healthcare IT implementation, through its Nicholas E. Davies Award of Excellence. Find out what the healthcare IT leaders at Sentara Health System, Nemours Health System, and Miramont Family Medicine have learned on their path to clinical and operational transformation, and the lessons they have to share with the industry.
October 25, 2010 Sharon Canner, Sr. Director of Advocacy Programs
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To date, ONC and CMS have released 106 FAQs on a wide range of topics—computerized physician order entry (CPOE), calculation of a Medicaid hospital’s electronic health record (EHR) incentive payments, and the registration process, for example. Meeting earlier this week, committee members explored how best to meet future meaningful use requirements. For example, should Stage 2 build incrementally from Stage 1 or should there be a set of larger steps structured around measuring and improving patient outcomes?
