Health Data Management articles from July 2004

Health Data Management archives from July 2004

Don't Waste Time; Provide Education.(medical information management services)
July 1, 2004... Since launching this magazine in 1993, I figure I've attended, conservatively, 500 health care information technology educational sessions at various conferences. Some have been great; others not so great. My most recent educational...

Government's Gaze Turning to Electronic Records.(health care legislations)
July 1, 2004... Prospects for passage this year of any health care legislation-including incentives to help providers implement electronic medical records software-are very slim as Congress and the White House are in the midst of a contentious election cycle....

Sutter Health Bites the I.T. Bullet.(Sutter Preferred Health Plan Services Inc.,)
July 1, 2004... Five years ago, executives at Sutter Health decided they needed to substantially advance the use of information technology throughout the 26-hospital delivery system. Now, Sacramento, Calif.-based Sutter is putting its money on the table,...

Alaris Buy Gives Cardinal New Products, Higher Focus on Safety.
July 1, 2004... With its plan to acquire Alaris Medical Systems, Cardinal Health Inc. will expand its portfolio of injectable drug equipment and enter the infusion pump market. However, the acquisition, which was expected to close in June, also helps...

Stock Chart.(stock prices of health care information companies)(Illustration)
July 1, 2004... (part 1 of 3) Price Price as on a % of 52 Health care software companies 6/8/2004 Wk High ...

The Top 10 CPOE Challenges.(computerized physician order entry)(health care reforms)
July 1, 2004... There's a cultural revolution going on in health care. From the White House to the halls of Congress to federal agencies, calls for revamping health care's infrastructure are spreading. And information technology is billed as the silver bullet...

With CEOs and CFOs, ROI on Center Stage: To convince CEOs and CFOs of return on investment, CIOs must devise ways to explain and capture ROI.(return on investment)(chief executive officers)(chief financial officers)(chief information officers)
July 1, 2004... When it comes to pitching information technology, CIOs often are stuck between a rock, the CEO, and a hard place, the CFO. The former wants to hear how information technology will take the organization one step closer to an envisioned...

Sizing Up Both Sides of the Table: Medical directors of I.T. help find a common ground to fit new technology into physicians' workflow.
July 1, 2004... Any discussion of wireless technologies causes Paresh Shah, M.D., to assume multiple personalities. As director of the center for surgical obesity in the department of general surgery at Lahey Clinic Medical Center, Shah understands why his...

Finding the Right HIPAA Mix: Providers studying how their processes mesh with the HIPAA security rule often find it's a balancing act.(Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act)
July 1, 2004... One of the earliest tasks of figuring out how to comply with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act's data security rule is determining where security and authentication technologies need to fit into an organization's work...

Making the security rule manageable.(implementation of Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act rules)
July 1, 2004... Franciscan Skemp Healthcare in LaCrosse, Wis., broke the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act's security rule into 20 "pieces." Those pieces then were assigned to 10 employees who led the teams looking at issues within each...

Locking Down Health Information Networks: Multiple technologies, each with pros and cons, can be used to confirm a computer user's identity.
July 1, 2004... With the compliance deadline of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act's data security rule a scant nine months away, health care providers must come to grips with how to meet it. The rule requires covered entities to...

Screen Test Yields Mobile Star: Physician group practice turns to subnotebook computers to meet mobile clinicians' needs.
July 1, 2004... When three solo practitioners formed South Arkansas Medical Associates in late 1999, they wanted to offer a one-stop shop of health services to their family practice patients. To do so, they built a 20,000 square foot facility in El Dorado...

Advertiser Index.(Illustration)
July 1, 2004... Advertiser Site Addresses Page # AdminiSourceRemettra www.adminisourceremettra.com 34 Ahima www.ahima.org/convention 71 Aladdin ...

Contracts Update.(health care contracts)
July 1, 2004... The Contracts Update Department features announcements of recent contracts that health care information technology companies have signed with provider and payer organizations. Please send contract announcement news releases via e-mail to Senior...

Do you agree or disagree?(health care industry)
July 1, 2004... "President George W. Bush's and Senator John F. Kerry's advocacy of electronic medical records will help speed adoption of the technology. Do you agree or disagree?" AGREE Laura Preston, M.D.Tallahassee, Fla. "Over the past couple...