August 23, 2012 Jennifer Prestigiacomo
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I think Henry Ford articulated it best when he said, "Failure is only the opportunity to begin again, only this time more wisely." We all learn from our mistakes, and I think one area rife with redos and re-tinkering of strategies is the health information exchange (HIE) market.
August 20, 2012 Mark Hagland
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At the Minneapolis-based Allina Health, a multidisciplinary team has created a groundbreaking dashboard tool for assessing the readmissions risk of individual inpatients—before they’re discharged into the community. Behind the development of a project that made Allina’s Patient Census Dashboard Team a semi-finalist in the HCI Innovator Awards Program in 2012.
August 18, 2012 Mark Hagland
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On a trip to Albuquerque, I shared a ride with Linda Martinez, R.N., a clinical nurse specialist whose work with the groundbreaking Hospital at Home program at Presbyterian Health Services offers insight into the future of the healthcare delivery system.
August 18, 2012 Mark Hagland
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Presbyterian Health Services’ Melanie Van Amsterdam, M.D., talks about the groundbreaking Hospital at Home program that she and her clinician and administrative colleagues have created and are evolving forward in the Albuquerque area, a program whose patient outcomes and cost-effectiveness results have national implications for population health and care management initiatives health system-wide.
August 17, 2012
news
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently announced 17 new sites that were selected to participate in its Community-based Care Transitions Program (CCTP). CCTP, created from the Affordable Care Act (ACA), tests models for improving care transitions over a five-year program from the hospital to other settings and reducing readmissions for high-risk Medicare beneficiaries.
August 1, 2012 Mark Hagland
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At Baptist Healthcare System, Louisville, Ky., CIO Jackie Lucas is defying conventional wisdom, and is about to attest to meaningful use for five hospitals in her system, working with an emergency department IS separate from her core EHR. Her verdict? It’s simply a myth that it can’t be done.
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
July 17, 2012 Mark Hagland
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The tragic outcome in a New York sepsis case involving a promising young 12-year-old ignites interest, and thousands of comments, in The New York Times.
July 17, 2012 Jennifer Prestigiacomo
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Much important work is currently underway to develop vocabulary, packaging, and transport standards for health information exchange (HIE), according to last week’s National eHealth Collaborative ONC Anniversary Event, which highlighted the collaborative work of the Beacon Communities and seven EHR companies (NextGen, Greenway, GE, Allscripts, Vitera, Cerner and SuccessEHS) that are working together to accelerate interoperability and exchange.
July 11, 2012
news
The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has implemented a new initiative, Specialty Care Access Network-Extension for Community Healthcare Outcomes (SCAN-ECHO), to increase access to specialty care services for Veterans in rural and medically under-served areas through the use of videoconferencing equipment. Through SCAN-ECHO, patients in rural areas with complex medical conditions are now able to receive specialty care treatment from their local VA physician.
July 9, 2012 Mark Hagland
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With the aid of a federal contract, Intermountain Healthcare leaders are pushing ahead to reframe the terms of care delivery to patients, particularly those with chronic illnesses. Intermountain's Lucy Savitz, Ph.D., shares some early learnings with Healthcare Informatics.
July 5, 2012 David Raths
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Stage 3 of meaningful use may seem a long way off. After all, the Stage 2 final rule has yet to be released. Yet for members of the Meaningful Use Work Group of the federal Health IT Policy Committee, deadlines are fast approaching. They are working to make initial Stage 3 recommendations by Aug. 1, so that a Request for Comment can by issued in November and final recommendations can be published by May 2013.
