February 4, 2013 David Raths
blog
The growth in the rate of prescriptions written electronically is a huge success story. But at the Jan. 29 joint hearing of the federal HIT Policy Committee and HIT Standards Committee, attendees were reminded that sending structured lab data is a bigger challenge, in part due to the highly fragmented nature of the laboratory market.
December 26, 2012 Rajiv Leventhal
news
According to the fall 2012 Economic Outlook from Charlotte-based Premier Healthcare Alliance, hospitals and health systems nationwide are projecting the growth of their capital expenditure budgets will drop below 2010 levels as they anticipate patient admission reduction.
September 17, 2012
news
HIMSS Analytics (Chicago) recognizes Fort HealthCare in Fort Atkinson, Wis. with its Stage 7 Award. The Stage 7 award represents attainment of the highest level on the Electronic Medical Records Adoption Model (EMRAM), which is used to track EMR progress at hospitals and health systems.
July 19, 2012 Mark Hagland
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Why NYU Langone Medical Center’s actions in the face of the Rory Staunton tragedy serve as a model for sentinel-event response industry-wide, and what all this means for clinicians, clinician leaders, and informaticists in every patient care organization in the country
February 24, 2012 Jennifer Prestigiacomo
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At the Health Information Exchange (HIE) Symposium during the “Inter Agency Collaboration: A Federal Update” session on Monday, Feb. 20 at HIMSS12, federal leaders shared the pathways their agencies were creating to bridge local exchanges with public health despite limited funding from ARRA. Seth Foldy, CDC, noted that this was the “year of living dangerously,” with meaningful use as the disruptive change forcing struggling public health departments to update legacy systems, as well as established HIEs having to translate their idiosyncratic exchange protocols to national standards. “There’s no national public health entity that does all this,” he emphasized.
February 14, 2012 Mark Hagland
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Just recently, I’ve been looking back at some statistics of particular interest, as many of us head off to HIMSS12 in Las Vegas next week. One data-driven report that came out in late September 2011 strikes me now as especially worthy of comment. On Sep. 28, the folks at the Lebanon, N.H.-based Dartmouth Atlas Project released a report showing that little progress was made during the five-year period from 2004 through 2009 in the area of working to reduce hospital readmissions.
January 11, 2012 Michael Craige
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As it stands to day, research efforts to incorporating patient’s molecular and genetic data into vendors Electronic Medical Record (EMR) systems, is one of the most funded areas of research that aims to develop Personalized Medicine care to a growing population of patients. This will without a doubt enable clinicians to have the critical information for selecting tailored treatments than can greatly improve each patient’s survival.
May 23, 2011 James L. Holly, M.D.
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The Texas Department of State Health Services created an HIV/ASTD Prevention and Care Branch which manages a grant program Promoting Annual HIV Screening for ages 13-64. This is in response to the 2006 CDC Recommendation for HIV Testing. SETMA’s first interest in this issue came from meeting with the staff of this program. Immediately, SETMA understood the value of this initiative, but as we proceeded, the application requirements were so complex SETMA decided to do the project without participating in the government funded program.
April 11, 2011 David Raths
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The life sciences industry spends more than $30 billion a year on clinical trials in the U.S., yet nearly 90 percent of trials fail to meet their timelines or budgets, researchers say. The rapid increase in the deployment of electronic health records (EHRs) is starting to help researchers identify potential participants in clinical trials.
March 16, 2011 Jennifer Prestigiacomo
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The American Hospital Association (Chicago) and the College of American Pathologists (Northfield, Ill.), along with the cooperation of the St. Paul, Minn.-based Surescripts recently embarked on a two-year grant to electronically link hospital laboratories with public health agencies. The $5 million grant from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) began on Jan. 31, and will include a recruitment phase, a pilot phase, and then will finally connect the targeted 500 hospital laboratories, 100 of which will be critical access hospitals. Seth Foldy, M.D., M.P.H., director of the CDC Public Health Informatics and Technology Program Office spoke withHCI Associate Editor Jennifer Prestigiacomo about the goals and challenges of this project.
March 16, 2011 Jennifer Prestigiacomo
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The American Hospital Association and the College of American Pathologists team up with Surescripts to electronically link hospital labs and public health agencies.
January 20, 2011 Mark Hagland
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Last autumn, the 20-hospital University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) health system announced an agreement with Chalfont St. Giles, U.K.-based GE Healthcare that will soon lead to clinical research testing of an innovative new digital pathology platform, through the two organizations’ $6 billion Omnyx joint venture. The digital pathology innovation represents another step forward for UPMC leaders, who are determined to leverage their vendor and other business relationships to advance healthcare technology and healthcare information technology.
