September 17, 2013 Mark Hagland
blog
In an era in which commemorative weeks and months are everywhere and happening during any given week, does it make sense to celebrate something like the “National Health IT Week”? Actually, it does. Here’s why…
September 15, 2013 Mark Hagland
article
This summer, a group of healthcare researchers published a research article that evaluated the effects of standardized vascular health checks on health outcomes, for patients in six European countries. The implications for electronic health record-facilitated chronic care management and preventive health care in the U.S. are clear.
September 14, 2013 Mark Hagland
article
The issue of unnecessary elective early-term deliveries of babies is receiving increasing attention in patient care organizations nationwide. One patient care organization in which active work to make such changes has been taking place is the four-hospital, Springfield-based Baystate Health. There, the medical director of obstetrics, the chair of the department of obstetrics and gynecology, and the organization’s clinical research director, are engaged in groundbreaking work in this very important area.
September 13, 2013 Rajiv Leventhal
news
Four upstate New York regional health information organizations (RHIOs) have announced new connectivity, which will allow for the secure exchange of electronic health records (EHRs) amongst Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse, and Albany healthcare professionals.
September 11, 2013 Gabriel Perna
article
Jonathan Teich, M.D., is in a unique position to comment on the intersection of IT and physician workflow. In this Q&A with HCI’s Associate Editor, Gabriel Perna, Dr. Teich shares his thoughts on health IT, specifically clinical decision support (CDS) systems, and how they fit into the workflow of a clinician.
September 11, 2013 Mark Hagland
article
Fast on the heels of an announcement by the ONC that the agency was launching a patient matching initiative, CHIME’s Russ Branzell gave HCI’s Mark Hagland an industry-first interview regarding CHIME’s praise for ONC’s announcement, and CHIME’s response to that announcement.
September 3, 2013 Mark Hagland
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The seven acute-care-hospital, West Orange-based Barnabas Health, the largest health system in New Jersey, has been plunging headlong into accountable care development. And Anthony Slonim, M.D., the health systems vice president and CMO, has a lot to say regarding lessons learned so far in Barnabas Health's journey.
September 3, 2013 Mark Hagland
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Temple University Physicians, a 400-physician (salaried) academic faculty practice plan whose members are affiliated with Temple University Health System (TUHS), a four-hospital system in Philadelphia, has been moving forward on a number of fronts when it comes to EHR implementation. Frank Erdlen, the group’s CIO, has turned to the concept of pre-load services to make sure the implementation has gone well.
August 28, 2013 Mark Hagland
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A team of researchers in the Global Institute for Emerging Healthcare Practices, a division of CSC, has published a new report that examines the challenges inherent in leveraging data and information for accountable or coordinated care. Lead author Jane Metzger speaks exclusively with HCI's Mark Hagland about the implications in the report's findings for healthcare IT leaders nationwide.
August 28, 2013 Rajiv Leventhal
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In 2003, Peter Anderson, M.D., a primary care physician in practice for more than 20 years at the time, says he hated medicine after failure to use the practice’s EHR appropriately resulted in an $80,000 deficit. Anderson knew he was drowning, and had to find a way to fall back in love with medicine. It was at that time when Anderson decided to use the team care concept in his office, a strategy that completely turned his practice and his life around.
August 23, 2013 Ted Reynolds and Marla Roberts, DrPH, R.N.
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GUEST BLOG In part 1 of this two-part blog series, we explored the current state of physician EHR use and suggested that the root cause of suboptimal physician EHR adoption is related to design issues and implementation planning problems. In part 2 here, we discuss the population health management issues that must be addressed in examining physician EHR adoption.
August 20, 2013 Rajiv Leventhal
news
A new tool developed by the American College of Surgeons has been designed to quickly and easily estimate patient-specific postoperative complication risks for almost all operations, according to research findings in the Journal of the American College of Surgeons.
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