September 17, 2012
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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.
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.
August 27, 2010 Mark Hagland
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Hospital and health system CIOs are working intensively to help physicians achieve meaningful use; but, given limited resources and the foreshortened timeframes involved, most are putting the bulk of their focus on their employed physicians. Still, some CIOs are also finding creative ways to engage their affiliated physicians and move forward on several fronts at once.
August 27, 2010 Jennifer Prestigiacomo
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The CIOs and CMIOs from Trinity Health System, Beth Israel Deaconess, Summa Health System, and Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh share their experiences toward meaningful use and offer tips for navigating the long road ahead.
August 10, 2010 Mark Hagland
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This week, professionals in the Waltham, Mass.-based Emerging Practices group at the Falls Church, Va.-based CSC are releasing a new report, “Hospital Quality Reporting—The Hidden Requirements of Meaningful Use.” In the report, authors Jane Metzger, Melissa Ames, and Jared Rhoades articulate an analysis they’ve done of the 15 quality reporting measures for hospitals put forward in the final rule around meaningful use, released July 13, in accordance with the unfolding sets of requirements under the federal American Reinvestment and Recovery Act/Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (ARRA-HITECH) Act.
August 6, 2010 John DeGaspari
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As CIO of the 600-physician Muir Medical Group IPA in Walnut Creek, Calif., Tina Buop has been following the progress on meaningful use regulations for electronic health records closely. In a recent interview, she shared her thoughts on the implications for the final rule on independent physician practices—plus her concerns for the next steps going forward.
February 24, 2010 Daphne Lawrence
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Leaders in healthcare IT innovation are often large academic medical centers with access to great resources. In these changing times, however, small community hospitals are finding ways to harness the power of IT to not only improve patient care, but also to help protect and bolster their bottom lines. For these hospitals, it's more than prestige is at stake. With heavy competition for admissions, it is a case of outright survival. One such hospital is 220-bed Chester County Hospital in West Chester, Pa. Located near Philadelphia, which is also home to many large academic medical centers, Chester faced the need to stand out.
