December 18, 2012 by Jennifer Prestigiacomo
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When the University of Missouri Health System sought to optimize its bedside documentation workflows, it chose to enhance its current medication administration devices to allow mobile point-of-care documentation, an innovation that has led to a dramatic advance in speed to documentation of patient data, ultimately improving patient care.
December 12, 2012 Mark Hagland
blog
As the healthcare industry moves forward to meet the demands of purchasers and payers for higher-quality, more effective, more cost-effective patient care with fewer errors and better care coordination, it is sobering to read the results of recent studies that show that improving clinical performance does not necessarily lead to the prevention of avoidable readmissions.
December 5, 2012 Michael Craige
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Rapid improvements in technology, semantic data structures, informatics professional collaboration and sequencing technologies are not necessarily the only gaps needed for the realization of personalized medicine (improving genomic and phenotypic data integration) but these must be taken into account on how best to exploit the opportunities to facilitate personalized medicine.
November 19, 2012 John DeGaspari
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In a hospital system’s ongoing efforts to improve patient safety, a collaborative approach with other health systems sharing the same goal offers significant advantages compared to trying to go it alone. After all, sharing the experiences with other hospitals provides a benchmark that a hospital can use to measure its progress, and can lead to best practices that can be shared among other hospitals.
November 1, 2012 John DeGaspari
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As Hurricane Sandy pounded coastal areas, its enormous breadth put hospitals in jeopardy throughout the Tri-State region. In Newburgh, N.Y., located on the banks of the Hudson River about 60 miles north New York City, sustained winds of 40 to 60 miles per hour and gusts of 100 miles per hour downed trees and caused local power outages. Cletis Earle, vice president and CIO of St. Luke’s Cornwall Hospital, a two-campus system with a 242-bed hospital in Newburgh and a second facility in nearby Cornwall, N.Y., described how his hospital fared during the storm and his view on disaster preparations.
November 1, 2012
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A Kaiser Health News analysis of the latest federal data on the nation’s nearly 1,200 community health centers showed wide variation in the quality of care delivered by the private, nonprofit clinics that are expected to play an important role under federal healthcare reform.
October 31, 2012 John DeGaspari
news
Bellevue Hospital in New York City, announced at 2 p.m. Eastern Standard Time that it has begun a full evacuation of all patients to nearby healthcare facilities due to storm damage.
October 17, 2012 Mark Hagland
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The National Coordinator for Health IT uses the opportunity to speak to CHIME Fall Forum attendees to exhort his audience forward in the meaningful use process under the banner of reforming the healthcare system for the benefit of patients, families, communities, and the broader society.
October 13, 2012 Mark Hagland
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At the five-hospital Inova Health System in northern Virginia, Daniel Rosenthal, M.D. is helping to lead a groundbreaking effort to better predict the need for interventions and optimize care transitions, using state-of-the-art clinical information tools in innovative ways.
October 4, 2012 Mark Hagland
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At the vast UPMC health system in Pittsburgh, Francis X. Solano, M.D., and Jim Venturella have been deeply involved with a broad cadre of their colleagues in helping to support practicing physicians in the organization’s medical groups with the evidence-based information needed to improve care quality—and document that improvement
October 2, 2012 Mark Hagland
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In contrast to what happened on November 1, 1999, when the Institute of Medicine released its industry-shaking report, "To Err Is Human: Building a Safer Health System," what happened on September 6, 2012, caused barely a ripple. That was the release of the IOM's third report in a series, this one called "Best Care at Lower Cost: The Path to Continuously Learning Health Care in America," which builds on the thinking presented in its two predecessor reports, and envisions the entire healthcare system continuously learning.
September 26, 2012 Mark Hagland
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At Northwest Hospital in Seattle, optimizing the planning for the implementation of CPOE and for evidence-based order sets has taken several fascinating turns. Gregory Schroedl, M.D., the hospital’s chief medical officer, shares his perspectives on what’s worked well and why.
