January 17, 2013 Rajiv Leventhal
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In less than a year, the 168-bed Florida Hospital North Pinellas has reached the highest level of EMR progress, an accomplishment that was well worth all the effort and hard work that went into it.
January 14, 2013 Mark Hagland
news
On Jan. 14, the Ann Arbor, Mich.-based College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) submitted formal comments to the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC), in response to the release of the Health IT Policy Committee’s proposal for Stage 3 of meaningful use.
January 10, 2013 Gabriel Perna
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At a recent webinar, hosted by the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS), Denni McColm, CIO of Citizens Memorial Healthcare, the rural-based healthcare network out of Bolivar, Mo., spoke of the four strategies her organization undertakes when it comes to engaging patients. Those strategies have helped Citizens Memorial, which has a 76-bed acute care hospital and 22 physician clinics, become an industry leading organization.
January 9, 2013 Mark Hagland
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Speranza Avram, the CEO of CalHIPSO, the largest of the 62 federally designated regional extension centers, has spent three years helping physicians in small groups to achieve meaningful use. Going forward, being able to continue to help providers beyond the end of this year will mean developing new models of sustainability.
January 8, 2013 Rajiv Leventhal
news
North Arkansas Regional Medical Center (NARMC) has become the first hospital in Arkansas to launch SHARE (State Health Alliance for Records Exchange), a statewide health information exchange (HIE) that gives secure, real-time access to electronic patient health information to various health care providers throughout Arkansas.
January 7, 2013 Mark Hagland
blog
It's so easy to go straight to quotes from classic movies, isn't it? On the other hand, this one from Bette Davis just seems to fit perfectly, right now: "Fasten your seat belts. It’s going to be a bumpy night!" But the uncertainly in Washington shouldn’t delay healthcare IT leaders' work building the new healthcare.
January 5, 2013 Mark Hagland
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In the wake of the so-called “fiscal cliff deal” that averted the effects of federal budget sequestration for two months when it was passed by Congress on Jan. 1 and signed by President Obama on Jan. 2, Blair Childs, senior vice president for public affairs at the Charlotte-based Premier health alliance, spoke with HCI Editor-in-Chief Mark Hagland about the current policy and political situation on Capitol Hill. To paraphrase Bette Davis, healthcare providers need to expect a bumpy ride throughout 2013.
January 4, 2013 Gabriel Perna
blog
For those in the healthcare industry, there are countless things that could be filed under, “New Year’s resolution.” Perhaps more than anything else, providers should look at ways of preventing data breaches, which have become a growing issue.
January 3, 2013 Rajiv Leventhal
news
The Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society’s (HIMSS) analytics division, HIMSS Analytics, has recognized North Pinellas, an Adventist Health System facility based in Tarpon Spring, Florida, with its Stage 7 Award.
January 2, 2013 John DeGaspari
news
Medical centers that elect to keep psychiatric files private and separate from the rest of a person's medical record may be doing their patients a disservice, a Johns Hopkins study concludes.
January 2, 2013 Mark Hagland
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At approximately 11 p.m. on Tuesday, Jan. 1, the U.S. House of Representatives concluded voting, by a margin of 257 to 167, to approve a bill that the U.S. Senate had approved at about 1:57 a.m. Tuesday, to avert the so-called “fiscal cliff” triggered on Tuesday by prior legislation passed in 2011. The legislation forestalled for several weeks the triggering of federal budget sequestration, which would have unleashed $110 billion in across-the-board federal spending cuts, including across-the-board 2-percent Medicare reimbursement cuts to healthcare providers.
December 28, 2012 Gabriel Perna
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Every resident at a hospital knows of the morning report, a time-honored tradition that as Niket Sonpal, M.D., chief resident at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City says, is as “old as taking a pill.” Recently, Sonpal decided to bring that tradition to the 21st century by investing in an interactive digital platform that covers the concepts in morning report. He talks with HCI exclusively about this initiative.
