Health Data Management articles from April 2005

Health Data Management archives from April 2005

Tackling the Challenge of Systems Integration.
April 1, 2005... Health care organizations face many I.T. challenges in today's intensely competitive marketplace. At a time when hospitals, integrated delivery systems, managed care plans and clinics are struggling to provide improved access to data, systems...

Vendors Ponder, Prepare for RHIOs.(regional health information organizations)
April 1, 2005... Each year, a common theme becomes evident as one strolls the exhibit hall at the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society Annual Conference & Exhibition. At the 2005 show in Dallas, the theme was regional health information...

CIOs: More Funds Going for Clinical Systems.(chief information officers)
April 1, 2005... Provider organizations are earmarking a larger portion of their I.T. budgets for purchasing clinical applications, according to responses to the Health Data Management 2005 CIO Survey. Further, information technology leaders increasingly...

Health Care Needs Process Changes.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2005... John Chambers, president and CEO of Cisco Systems Inc., demonstrated a health care scenario in which data seamlessly moved from a patient's home to a provider, then an ambulance and finally a hospital. During his keynote address at the HIMSS...

I.T. Financing Barriers Falling?(Brief Article)
April 1, 2005... Hospitals and delivery systems are being pressured to use information technology, but in many cases have been stymied by federal laws that prohibit them from offering physician group practices financing or I.T. "gifts." However, the push in...

Regional Networks Critical for Learning.(Regional health information organizations)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2005... Regional health information organizations, or RHIOs, are critical to the federal government's vision of a national health information network because they are the best source for lessons learned. That's the message that Lori Evans, a senior...

Tips on Records Implementation.(electronic medical records)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2005... Patience is key when implementing electronic records software, said Sarah Corley, M.D., an internist at Greensprings Village, a retirement community in Springfield, Va. She spoke at the Physicians' I.T. Symposium at the HIMSS conference. Corley...

Doc to Docs: e-Consults Work.(UC Davis Health System offers online physician patient consultations)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2005... Sacramento, Calif.-based UC Davis Health System in 2001 began offering online physician-patient consultations in its first clinic. Then, as now, physicians had two great concerns-that they would be working for free without reimbursement from...

Philips, Epic Eye Mid-sized Hospitals.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2005... Philips Medical Systems has undraped Xtenity Enterprise, a suite of enterprise and departmental health care information systems aimed at mid-sized hospitals. The application suite stems from an ongoing collaboration between Philips and Epic...

Kodak Launches I.T. Products.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2005... Eastman Kodak Co., a major vendor of medical imaging technology, now has a line of clinical and administrative systems. The Rochester, N.Y.-based vendor's new product line includes a pharmacy information system and numerous modules, including:...

Oracle to Support PeopleSoft Until '13.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2005... Oracle Corp., Redwood Shores, Calif., which recently acquired rival PeopleSoft Inc., Pleasanton, Calif., will continue to support existing applications from the vendor until 2013, said Doug Renert, vice president of application development....

GE, Intermountain Team on Software.(Intermountain Health Care)(GE Healthcare)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2005... GE Healthcare will embed in its Centricity clinical information system the best-practice treatment guidelines and other clinical decision support developed by Intermountain Health Care. Under a five year, $100 million contract, Salt Lake...

Public Split on e-Records Benefits.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2005... Americans are split over whether the benefits of electronic medical records outweigh the risks to personal privacy, according to a new survey from Harris Interactive Inc., a major polling firm. The poll was conducted on behalf of the Privacy...

Siemens Buys CPOE Order Sets.(Siemens Medical Solutions)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2005... Siemens Medical Solutions, Malvern, Pa., has purchased the computerized physician order entry pediatric order sets and related tools developed by Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center. Terms of the acquisition-which includes the order...

Medstat Boosts Payer Portfolio.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2005... Thomson Medstat, an Ann Arbor, Mich.-based vendor of benchmarking software, has acquired two payer-oriented software product lines from Solucient LLC, Evanston, Ill. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. The acquisition of the software...

Stryker Buys into PACS Market.(eTrauma.com Corp.)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2005... Stryker Corp., a vendor of medical devices and other products for the orthopedics market, now will add picture archiving and communication systems to its portfolio through its acquisition of eTrauma.com Corp. Kalamazoo, Mich.-based...

HealthGrades Buys Comparative Tool.(CompareYourCare product )(Brief Article)
April 1, 2005... HealthGrades Inc., a Lakewood, Colo.-based vendor of Web-based quality of care assessment services, has acquired the CompareYourCare product of the New York-based Foundation for Accountability, known as FACCT. Acquisition terms were not...

Medical Manager Founder Exits WebMD.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2005... Michael Singer, founder of physician software vendor Medical Manager Corp., has resigned from WebMD Corp., which acquired the company in September 2000. He served as an executive vice president, head of research and chief software architect in...

LanVision 'Streamlines' New Name.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2005... LanVision Systems Inc., a vendor of document imaging and management, electronic records and Web portal software, now will do business as Streamline Health. The Cincinnati-based company will maintain LanVision Systems Inc. as its legal corporate...

Forums Explain National I.T. Agenda.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2005... The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives will host a series of one-day meetings to help CIOs understand the national health care information technology agenda. The Leadership Education and Development Forums are designed to...

Group to Accredit Small Processors.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2005... The Electronic Healthcare Network Accreditation Commission has released draft criteria for an accreditation program for small health care data processing firms. The Healthcare Network Registry accreditation program targets small medical billing...

VoIP Vendors Team for Security.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2005... More than 40 vendors of voice over Internet protocol technology have formed an alliance to identify and reduce security risks. The VoIP Security Alliance believes the emergence of VoIP application-level attacks likely will occur as hackers...

Two Companies Seek Scripts Certification.(SureScripts Inc. certify their electronic prescription software)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2005... Two more vendors have begun work to certify their electronic prescription software with the e-script national network of SureScripts Inc., Alexandria, Va. The network's new partners are Physician Micro Systems Inc., Seattle, and Wellogic Inc.,...

SanDisk, MedKey Team for Portability.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2005... San Diego-based MedKey Corp. will use the SD/USB combination flash card from Sunnyvale, Calif.-based SanDisk Corp. in MedKey's new MedChip product line. The MedChip products are designed for storing and accessing patient information. The...

PatientKeeper Adds Desktop.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2005... Boston-based PatientKeeper Inc. has introduced a new application that takes data in its numerous PDA-based systems and configures it for display on desktop PCs, Tablet PCs and laptop computers. PatientKeeper's mobile health platform, which...

Mobile Cart Vendor Changes Name.(to Stinger Medical)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2005... Murfreesboro, Tenn.-based Stinger Industries, a vendor of mobile workstations for health care organizations, is changing its name to Stinger Medical. The vendor chose the name to better reflect its newly enhanced products designed for the...

MercuryMD Enhances Mobile Software.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2005... Research Triangle Park, N.C.-based MercuryMD Inc. has released a new version of its MData mobile software. Version 4.0, which integrates and mobilizes various clinical systems, features several enhancements designed to offer clinicians...

Zix, MedAptus Integrate PDA Software.(Personal Digital Assistant)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2005... Dallas-based Zix Corp. and Boston-based MedAptus Inc. have integrated their hand-held applications. According to the agreement, the vendors have integrated Zix's PocketScript PDA-based electronic prescription software with MedAptus' Charges in...

Medical Data in a Flash.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2005... Myrtle Beach, S.C.-based PathWay Technology LLC has released an application for USB flash drives that enables medical data storage and access. The Just In Case software is designed to enable patients to encrypt medical information and upload it...

Clinical Apps Running on Cingular.(Cingular Wireless)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2005... Atlanta-based Cingular Wireless has partnered with two health care I.T. vendors to offer clinical applications via its nationwide mobile phone network. New York-based-HealthRamp Inc. is offering electronic prescribing, medication history and...

Stock Chart.(Illustration)
April 1, 2005... (part 1 of 2) Price Price as on a % of 52 Health care software companies 3/9/2005 Wk High 1...

Keys to Successful Vendor Relations.
April 1, 2005... Rob Israel knows that breaking up is hard to do. A few years ago, Israel-CIO at John C. Lincoln Health Network-thought he had found a friend in a health care information technology vendor. Lincoln Health had signed a six-figure contract for a...

Vendors: Meet You Half Way.(Vendor Relations)
April 1, 2005... Health care information technology vendors, like provider and payer CIOs, appreciate the benefits of long-term relationships. But they say the biggest obstacle to being friends often is unrealistic expectations and-no surprise-a lack of...

CIOs Poised to Move Up?: Emphasis on I.T. and broader operations experience could put more CIOs on the path to top management.(Chief Information Officers)(Information Technlogy)
April 1, 2005... Like the kid that never got picked first in sandlot baseball games, CIOs are rarely the first in line when it comes to filling CEO jobs. But with CIOs reporting directly to the CEO in greater numbers comes greater responsibilities as I.T....

Tips for Aspiring CEOs.(Chief Executive Officers)
April 1, 2005... CIOs wishing to move on to higher provider organization management positions are benefiting from an improving climate. It will keep getting better, industry observers say, provided CIOs are willing to do their part. That means CIOs must...

A Team Approach to Compliance: CIOs and compliance officers say a little empathy-and respect-make for a successful relationship.
April 1, 2005... Compliance officers in health care organizations have a tough role. It's their job to become experts in myriad, often maddeningly complex regulations. They then have the unenviable task of monitoring their organizations-and fellow staff...

Managing the Tension of Competing Roles.
April 1, 2005... Clinicians and staff at health care organizations want broad access to patient information. But granting role-based access to data-making sure people only see data appropriate to their job functions-helps organizations better protect patient...

Nurses' New Duty: Caring for I.T.: Provider organizations are hiring nurse informaticists to help bridge the gap between clinicians and I.T.(Information Technology)
April 1, 2005... Ten years ago, when Thomas Andrews, R.N., was appointed director of nursing informatics at the University of Chicago Hospitals, he reported to the vice president of patient care services and the CIO. Since then, his position was shifted...

Other Organizations Riding the Nurse Informaticist Wave.
April 1, 2005... While most nurse informaticists are employed by provider organizations, others are being hired as a clinical advocate in different settings. An increasing number of payers, consulting firms and I.T. vendors are relying on nurse informaticists...

Nurse Informaticist Group Offers a Single Voice.
April 1, 2005... Last fall, 19 regional and national nurse informatics advocacy groups formed an alliance to offer a unified voice representing more than 2,000 nurse informaticists. The Alliance for Nursing Informatics, which is supported by the Healthcare...

Dashboards Merge Health Data: Software vendors assert dashboard technology will improve monitoring of clinical and administrative data.
April 1, 2005... One thing computers do well is emulating human actions. Because computer functions, though, are so foreign to most users, software developers often give them analogous names like desktop, folder and file. One of the more recent additions to the...

Consent App Gets OK from VA Center: A VA hospital uses medical consent software to automate and standardize how its patients approve procedures.(Atlanta VA Medical Center)
April 1, 2005... It's often up to Faye Strong to inform patients about what to expect before, during and after procedures, and get their legal consent for treatment. But until a few years ago, the registered nurse at Atlanta VA Medical Center worried that the...

Contracts Update.(Health Care Industry)
April 1, 2005... The Contracts Update section includes announcements of contracts that health care information technology companies have signed with customers in recent weeks. Contract news can be sent to Health Data Management by electronic mail to:...

Advertiser Index.(Illustration)
April 1, 2005... Advertiser Site Addresses Page # Agfa www.agfa.com/healthcare 47 ChartOne www.chartone.com 63 Cybernet...

Do you agree or disagree?(federal funding necessary to launch a national health information network)
April 1, 2005... Q. "The Bush administration and Congress understand the level of federal funding necessary to launch a national health information network. Do you agree or disagree?" AGREE Megan Barney Denver "I believe the Bush...