Health Data Management articles from August 2007

Health Data Management archives from August 2007

I.T. Shouldn't Be Optional on a Daily Basis.
August 1, 2007... As I write this, my wife and I are getting things in order for the arrival of our second child. Among the many thoughts racing through my mind is trying to remember what I did wrong the first time: forgot to take quarters for the vending...

Editorial/Ad Index.
August 1, 2007... A ABRY Partners 46 Affiliated Computer Services Inc. 34 American Health Information Management Association 18 Anderson, Mark, CEO of AC Group 36 B BlueCross BlueShield of South Carolina 46 Brown, Eric,...

Today's Health Care CFOs Are Much More Knowledgeable About I.T. Issues Than They Were Five Years Ago. Agree or Disagree?
August 1, 2007... Online Survey Results Disagree 32% Agree 68% Source: Health Data Management Web site, www.healthdatamanagement.com, June 2007 survey results. 502 responses AGREE Peter Courtway CIO Danbury (Conn.) Health...

Sutter Donating Millions for I.T.
August 1, 2007... A new grant program from Sacramento, Calif.-based Sutter Health is designed to help other provider organizations accelerate their use of information technology. As part of its application to the state earlier this year for almost $1...

Provider sees Benefit In Using PHRs.
August 1, 2007... Kettering (Ohio) Health Network has 40 million reasons why it's investing $1 million cash plus resources into personal health records software for its employees. "We're spending $40 million on health care a year," says Frank Perez,...

Conference Offers Practical EHR Insights.(Conference news)
August 1, 2007... A new conference to be held Sept. 17-18 in suburban Chicago will offer practical, real-world insights from physicians, nurses, CIOs and other experts on implementing electronic health records. The editors of Health Data Management magazine...

An Unusual Use for Ultrasound.
August 1, 2007... Many hospitals use tracking systems that rely on radio frequency or Wi-Fi signals that transmit equipment location data to a back-end system. Seton Medical Center, however, is tracking its equipment via a technology that transmits such...

AHIMA: Extend HIPAA Protections.
August 1, 2007... HIPAA's privacy and security rule protections should be extended to all entities and persons handling health information, the president of the American Health Information Management Association recently told Congress. Further, neither...

Newsline Digest: Newsline Digest presents highlights of the latest health care I.T. news as reported on the Health Data Management Web site. For extended versions of these and many other original news stories, visit www.healthdatamanagement.com.
August 1, 2007... FEDS READY TO TEST NHIN The federal government is seeking proposals to conduct trial implementations of the national health information network. The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology in the Department of...

Stock Chart.(Statistical table)
August 1, 2007... HEALTH CARE TECHNOLOGY COMPANIES, as of June 29, 2007 Price Price as a One Six One Mkt Company on % of 52 month month year YTD Cap name Ticker 6/29/2007...

Document Management: Putting Together the Pieces: Organizations seek new uses for the technology after reaping success with various limited deployments.
August 1, 2007... Many health care organizations initially used document management systems for relatively small projects. A lot of these early projects focused on meeting the needs of billing, medical records and registration departments. Now, some...

Easing the Exchange Of Research Documents.
August 1, 2007... Frustrated by the difficulty of using other file sharing technologies, a major teaching hospital turned to a document management system to streamline the complex task of sharing research and grant-writing documents. The surgical planning...

Document Management As A Cost-Cutter.
August 1, 2007... Duke University Health System's foray into document management technology started with a niche application, albeit a very large one. Over the past two years, the OnBase system from Hyland Software Inc., Westlake, Ohio, has helped the...

Saving Clinicians Precious Time: Single-sign-on software helps ease clinician access to patient data, improving acceptance of information systems.
August 1, 2007... Clinicians at Eisenhower Memorial Hospital routinely access six modules from San Francisco-based McKesson Corp., two applications from Kansas City, Mo.-based Cerner Corp. and several other ancillary and homegrown information systems. And...

Taking a Two-Pronged Approach.
August 1, 2007... Organizations implementing single-sign-on should strongly consider including context management software with the package, says Josh Levine, manager of servers and desktop support at Legacy Health System, Portland, Ore. The six-hospital...

Why a Small Hospital Uses the Technology.
August 1, 2007... A few years ago, executives at Brunswick, Maine-based Parkview Adventist Medical Center knew they needed a new hospital information system. They also knew they wanted a single vendor for all the modules. So, the 55-bed hospital bought...

Technology Smorgasbord Makes Choices Difficult: A new generation of software and hardware has health care organizations pondering their next moves.
August 1, 2007... Health care CIOs face the challenge of keeping up with the very latest developments in information technologies, with new options emerging at a dizzying pace. From a TiVo-like program that records network activity for playback later to a...

New Name, New Mission For Vendor: The new HealthPort is the old Companion Technologies with a new owner, new acquisition and new initiatives.
August 1, 2007... For more than two decades, Companion Technologies-recently renamed HealthPort Inc.-operated as an information technology division of BlueCross BlueShield of South Carolina. The Columbia-based vendor started as a claims clearinghouse before...

West Virginia Leverages VA Software: State is implementing Vista system at five facilities to save time and money.
August 1, 2007... When government officials in West Virginia decided it was time to replace outdated information systems in seven state-run facilities and go from paper medical charts to electronic records, the idea of using software developed by the Veterans...

P4P Without an EHR?: A group practice is betting that less expensive technology will enable it to prove that it's following Medicare treatment guidelines.
August 1, 2007... Medical Edge Healthcare Group is anxious to generate extra revenue through Medicare's pay-for-performance initiative. But the Dallas-based group practice doesn't want to spend money on an electronic health records system to generate the...

Insurer Eases Brokers' Pain: A Blues Plan uses software to slash the time it takes to enroll small employers.
August 1, 2007... It used to take 18 to 30 days for an insurance broker to sign up smaller employers as clients for Blue Cross Blue Shield of Florida. The main reason for the delay was the amount of paperwork involved, says Jon Urbanek, vice president of...

Contracts Update.
August 1, 2007... 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 e-mail to:...

Stats Snapshot.(Brief article)
August 1, 2007... Governance and funding are two of the biggest issues facing regional health information organizations, according to a study of vendors serving that market from Health Industry Insights, Framingham, Mass. In December 2006 and January 2007,...

Vision and Celebration: Why EHRs must evolve to true electronic patient management.
August 1, 2007... In May 1999, Southeast Texas Medical Associates (SETMA) had been using electronic health records for four months. In June 2007, SETMA has been using an EHR for Daily Progress Notes in a hospital for four months. In 1999, it was impossible to...