September 23, 2012 Mark Hagland
article
The University of South Alabama Children’s and Women’s Hospital, located in Mobile, Alabama, is pushing ahead to optimize medication administration safety through the strategic implementation of key information systems
August 29, 2012 Mark Hagland
blog
What's most fascinating about the final rule for Stage 2 of meaningful use is not what was surprising, but what wasn't surprising. Then again, the leaders of the pioneering patient care organizations in this country already understand the direction of the new healthcare; for them, meaningful use is just one (very big) element in the overall operational landscape.
August 28, 2012 Jennifer Prestigiacomo and David Raths
article
Many in the industry are mostly positive about the changes that were made in the final rule of meaningful use Stage 2, which the federal Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued last Thursday, Aug. 23. As HCI Senior Contributing Editor David Raths detailed in his Aug. 24 blog, there have been several key changes and innovations in the final rule. To illustrate these images, HCI has put together a pictorial view of the major changes seen in the final rule.
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.
May 3, 2012 Mark Hagland
article
The editors of Healthcare Informatics are delighted to announce the results of the Healthcare Informatics/AMDIS second annual IT Innovation Advocate Award, cosponsored by HCI and by the Association of Medical Directors of Information Systems, and to present an interview between HCI Editor-in-Chief Mark Hagland and HealthEast CMIO Brian Patty, M.D., team lead of the first-place-winning informatics team.
For the second year in a row, Healthcare Informatics and AMDIS (the Association of Medical Directors of Information Systems) are proud to sponsor the Healthcare Informatics/AMDIS IT Innovation Advocate Award program, which recognizes teams of clinical informaticists, clinicians, and other healthcare leaders in hospitals, medical groups, and health systems whose innovative initiatives are moving healthcare forward.
March 12, 2012
news
According to a recent study, small medical offices with one or two physicians in the practice are the fastest-growing segment for adoption of electronic health records (EHR) software.
February 28, 2012 David Raths, Jennifer Prestigiacomo, and Mark Hagland
article
Hospital, physician group, and health system IT leaders have been busy the past few days analyzing the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM, or “proposed rule”) on Stage 2 of meaningful use, which was released by the federal Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) and announced publicly by Farzad Mostashari, M.D., the national coordinator for health IT, on Thursday, Feb. 23, during the waning hours of the HIMSS Conference last week. With 455 pages to scan, many are finding that just reading through the text of the proposed rule is taking numerous hours. Not surprisingly, some organizations are taking their time to perform a comprehensive analysis of the stage 2 proposed rule.
June 28, 2011 Jennifer Prestigiacomo
article
After five years as a grassroots initiative, the Technology Informatics Guiding Education Reform (TIGER) initiative becomes a not-for-profit organization, to continue to promote nursing IT education and development.
March 30, 2009 Mark Hagland
article
Designing a medication-administration system for the smallest patients was a huge challenge
February 25, 2009 Suresh Gunasekaran
article
On Nov. 9, 2008, University of Texas Southwestern University Hospitals (Dallas) implemented several EMR components: pharmacy information system, electronic medication administration record (eMAR), clerk order entry, and emergency department record (with ED physician order entry, patient tracking, and nursing and physician documentation).
