August 30, 2013 Linda Minghella
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Having an effective response plan is critical for mitigating the impact of downtime, and your organization has likely put a tremendous amount of thought and care into its contingency plan. But your plan may have an Achilles’ heel that your organization is completely unaware of—a weakness that could leave your organization as poorly prepared as if you had no contingency plan at all. Where are the holes in your plan? Find them by asking a simple question: What is the longest hypothetical outage you have planned for?
August 20, 2013 John DeGaspari
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Emergency departments are not meeting the needs of senior citizens, according to a international study published in the Annals of Emergency Medicine.
August 14, 2013 Gabriel Perna
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At Cullman Regional Medical Center (CRMC), a 145-bed facility in Cullman County, Ala., leaders have implemented an iPhone app that helps providers with medication reconciliation, readmission rates, and nursing accuracy and efficiency. President and CEO Jim Weidner explains why this technology was a worthy investment.
August 5, 2013 John DeGaspari
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A recent online consumer survey found that electronic medical records (EMRs) are an important factor in patient satisfaction with their doctors, as well as their choice of healthcare providers. The survey was conducted by Deerfield, Ill.-based Aeffect, Inc., a research and consulting firm, and 88 Brand Partners, a marketing firm in Chicago.
July 13, 2013 Mark Hagland
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Brian Yeaman, M.D., CMIO of the 500-bed Norman Regional Health System in Norman, Oklahoma, has important thoughts on where physician documentation needs to go, and on the role of speech recognition in optimizing the documentation process. He also shares lessons learned from the Moore tornado disaster of this spring.
July 4, 2013 M. Wayne Craige
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It’s Monday July 8 and you woke up feeling sick, and you know you better see your doctor. In the office, your doctor looks you over, listens to your symptoms, but before he prescribes a drug, the doctor said, “Lets get a sample of your blood so that I can take a look at your Deoxyribonucleic Acid”. You heard me right, your DNA!
June 30, 2013 Mark Hagland
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James M. Walker, M.D. spent 12 years at the Danville, Pa.-based Geisinger Health System. Now at Siemens Healthcare, he is hoping to bring forward a vision of the clinical informatics of the future based on the learnings that he gained at the pioneering Geisinger organization.
June 20, 2013 John DeGaspari
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Emergency physicians are key decision makers for nearly half of all hospital admissions, highlighting a critical role they can play in reducing health care costs, according to a new report from the RAND Corporation. The report recommends that hospital administrators, policymakers, payers and federal research agencies recognize the current reality in emergency department operations and the role they play in coordinating care for millions of patients.
May 16, 2013 John DeGaspari
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In a Thursday session at the HCI Executive Summit, Paul Katz, founder and CEO of Intelligent Systems, said now is the time for healthcare providers to take advantage of the explosion of data.
March 14, 2013 Rajiv Leventhal
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On March 13 in Philadelphia, David Nash, M.D., founder of the first U.S. academic institution focused on population health, establishing the Jefferson School of Population Health at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia, headed the 13th Population Health Colloquium, with its goal to provide forward thinking and meaningful continuing education for healthcare professionals to help prepare them to find solutions to the myriad challenges that healthcare currently faces.
March 7, 2013 Rajiv Leventhal
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The concept of behavioral change is one that James L. "Larry" Holly, M.D., feels is necessary for any healthcare system to succeed. On March 5th at HIMSS13 in New Orleans, HCI Assistant Editor Rajiv Leventhal caught up with Holly to discuss effective strategies for moving forward in the new healthcare.
March 4, 2013 Gabriel Perna
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Laura McCrary, Ed.D. executive director of the Kansas Health Information Network (KHIN), strongly supports the idea that an HIE can help with various meaningful use Stage 2 measures, especially those in relation to public health reporting. While her organization has already accomplished a lot in this area, as well as overall, they're aiming to go even further.
