Clinical Information Systems

Podcast: Improving Hand Hygiene through RFID

February 14, 2013     Gabriel Perna
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In this Healthcare Informatics podcast, Associate Editor Gabriel Perna interviews Gerald Creel, the director of emergency department at Shannon Medical Center, a 400-bed hospital in San Angelo, Texas. Shannon won third place in HCI’s recent IT Innovators Award program for implementing an automated radio-frequency identification (RFID)-based system that dealt with the issue of hand-hygiene. As a result of this initiative, Shannon lowered hospital acquired infections by 62 percent.

Top 10 Tech Trends: The Urge to Merge

February 12, 2013     David Raths
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The health system consolidation is putting pressure on CIOs to deliver clinical integration and back-office efficiencies. And the potential acceleration in a parallel consolidation among health IT vendors holds many implications for the industry.

eHI Unveils Health IT Resources Guide

February 12, 2013     Gabriel Perna
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The Washington D.C.-based eHealth Initiative (eHI) has unveiled a resource guide, aiming to help cancer patients, their families, caregivers, and support networks better understand what digitals tools and technologies are available to treat and cope with the disease. The Health IT Cancer Resources Guide lists 76 tools ranging from mobile applications to web sites to social networks that aim to improve cancer care.

James E. Levin, M.D., Ph.D., 1958-2013: An Appreciation

February 12, 2013     Mark Hagland
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Dr. Jim Levin was both a clinical informatics pioneer and a true mensch. Well do I remember the first time I met him, four years ago, when in the spring of 2009, as I was meeting with executives and leaders from across the UPMC health system in Pittsburgh, to find out what UPMC leaders were doing to leverage information technology for systemic performance improvement.

James E. Levin, M.D., Ph.D, CMIO at Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh, Dies at 55

February 11, 2013     Mark Hagland
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James E. Levin, M.D., Ph.D., CMIO at Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh, died unexpectedly on Feb. 10 while traveling on business. Dr. Levin, 55, was a nationally recognized pioneer in medical informatics, and had helped guide his colleagues at Children’s of Pittsburgh, part of the vast 20-plus-hospital University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) health system, through industry-leading innovations in clinical innovation and electronic health record (EHR)-driven clinical performance improvement.

In New England, Moving Forward in Medical Groups

February 9, 2013     Mark Hagland
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Jeff Loughlin, project director at the Massachusetts eHealth Collaborative and executive director of the Regional Extension Center of New Hampshire, shares his perspectives on the current state of EHR adoption among medical groups-and the lessons that have been learned by leaders of the regional extension centers.

Guest Blog: Six Healthcare IT Predictions for 2013

February 5, 2013     Ted Reynolds and Chris Miller, CTG Health Solutions
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The meaningful use of electronic health records (EHRs), healthcare reform and ongoing pressure to improve clinical and financial performance will drive six trends that we expect will impact providers in 2013, say two executives at CTG Health Solutions

“2013 Is the Year of Data”: A PriceWaterhouseCoopers Executive Looks at the Top IT Challenges on the Horizon

January 29, 2013     Mark Hagland
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Earlier this month, the Health Research Institute at PriceWaterhouseCoopers consulting firm released a new report, “Top health industry issues of 2013: Picking up the pace on health reform.” PWC’s John Edwards, director of the consulting firm’s healthcare advisory division, shares his perspectives on the most pressing challenges facing healthcare IT leaders right now. Here’s a hint: think data and information systems, not IT per se.

Are You Ready to Create a (Healthcare) Revolution?

January 28, 2013     Mark Hagland
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The winning teams in this year's Healthcare Informatics Innovator Awards program exemplify the spirit of pioneering innovation in our industry

The 2013 Healthcare Informatics Innovator Awards: First Place Winner: NorthShore University HealthSystem

January 28, 2013     John DeGaspari
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An interdisciplinary team of clinicians, informaticists, and quality experts at NorthShore University HealthSystem, Evanston, Ill., has taken a major step in controlling this disease in its outpatient population, by harnessing its electronic health record (EHR) to screen for and evaluate individuals with previously undetected hypertension in its multi-specialty medical group. The system, which went live in January 2011, has helped the integrated health system make significant progress in eliminating undiagnosed hypertension among its patients receiving care within its primary care network.

The 2013 Healthcare Informatics Innovator Awards: Co-Second Place Winner: The Colorado Beacon Consortium

January 28, 2013     Mark Hagland
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Leaders at the Colorado Beacon Consortium are leveraging powerful analytics and health information exchange tools to support region-wide, physician practice-based population health tools, for the benefit of patients scattered across the Rocky Mountain west.

Helping a Self-Developed EMR Evolve

January 25, 2013     Gabriel Perna
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Leaders at MD Anderson, a Houston-based cancer treatment and research center, went the unconventional route in getting a meaningful use certified EMR. They self-developed one. Thanks to a simulation tool that visualized clinical applications, they were able to do this in a way that made life easier for the development team and the clinician stakeholders.
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