Health Data Management articles from July 2005

Health Data Management archives from July 2005

Nurses and Doctors Involved in I.T. Decisions...Finally.
July 1, 2005... In the past few years, physicians and nurses have become far more involved in information technology acquisitions and implementations. And as far as I'm concerned, this involvement was long overdue. The Special Report by Greg Gillespie,...

Health I.T. Getting Attention in Washington.
July 1, 2005... Federal officials took several steps in recent weeks to further encourage the adoption of health information technology. The Department of Health and Human Services, for instance, announced its intention to soon publish two proposed rules...

Blogs Help Spread the Word in Health Care.
July 1, 2005... A nurse at a hospital in Austin, Texas, suspected a patient was suffering a stroke. After the treating physician did not come to the hospital to check the patient but ordered tests and observation, the nurse consulted a non-treating physician....

Nurses See I.T. Boosting Patient Safety.(survey on medication safety )
July 1, 2005... Seventy-two percent of nurses recently surveyed believe medication safety has improved at their hospital during the past five years. Further, 80% of nurses say information technology was a major contributor to better patient safety. The...

RFID Tags Help Identify Patients Before Surgery.(radio frequency identification)
July 1, 2005... It's early in the morning and surgical teams are beginning to get ready for the first patients of the day. In comes John Q. Public to have an appendectomy. The nurse checks the chart and makes sure everything is in order. The nurse moves...

Kaiser Readies New Web Portal Tools.(patients service through webs)
July 1, 2005... Well into its multiyear KP HealthConnect initiative to implement integrated, enterprisewide clinical and financial information systems, Kaiser Permanente soon will start rolling out Web site tools for patients. The Oakland, Calif.-based...

Down Under Image Readers Cover U.S. Radiologists.(Australia)
July 1, 2005... Thanks to the Internet and the sunny skies of Australia, Leonard Berlin, M.D., and his colleagues can sleep at night. Berlin is the chairman of the department of radiology at Rush North Shore Medical Center, Skokie, Ill. For years he...

Newsline Digest.(management and medicare services of software industry)
July 1, 2005... HHS Opens Provider ID Sign-Up The Department of Health and Human Services is accepting applications for national provider identifiers. Mandated under the HIPAA administrative simplification provisions, most covered entities must use the...

Mobile Health News.(Nokia Corp. plans Mini-Tablet launch)(Microsoft Corp. enhances Windows Mobile operating system)(Motion Computing Inc. has released redesigned Tablet PC)
July 1, 2005... PalmOne Back to Square One Milpitas, Calif.-based palmOne Inc. will again become Palm Inc. later this year. The PDA and smart phone vendor will pay $30 million over 3.5 years to PalmSource Inc., Sunnyvale, Calif., to purchase the rights to...

Stock Chart.(Health care software companies )(Illustration)
July 1, 2005... (part 1 of 3) Price on Health care software companies 6/6/2005 1 Allscripts Healthcare Solutions MDRX $16.27 2 Amicas ...

How Does Mobile Tech Measure Up?(mobile technology in health care organizations)
July 1, 2005... Health care organizations are weighing a growing list of mobile hardware options as they look for ways to provide clinicians with better access to information. Interest in mobile technology is exploding, in large part, because hospitals and...

Early Adopters Go for Test Drives.(technology in health care industry)
July 1, 2005... As the debate continues over which mobile hardware option best meets health care's needs, some tech-savvy physicians are anxious to test-drive the very latest devices. For example, Gregg Fine, M.D., an internal medicine physician at Yale-New...

Computer Carts Get Bigger...and Smaller.
July 1, 2005... Dozens of vendors are offering a growing list of computer cart options designed for use in hospitals and clinics. That's because clinicians who like to use carts to gain access to computers at the point of care often have widely varying...

Involving Physicians in I.T. Decisions: CIOs and other executives know they need doctors to make more information technology design and implementation decisions. But the task often is as hard as it sounds.
July 1, 2005... In his own words, Gary Siegel, M.D., is "just a country doctor." Be that as it may, he is helping shape the future of new technology implementations at Northside Hospital, an Atlanta-based, three-hospital delivery system. A few years ago,...

Practice Decides Money Talks When It Comes to I.T.(Primary Care Medical Center adopts an electronic medical records system)
July 1, 2005... Primary Care Medical Center had to make tough decisions five years ago on how to spend its information technology dollars. It managed to do so with 100% participation in the process from its six-physician staff. The practice, based in...

More DOCs Crossing the I.T. Line.(physicians as medical directors of information technology)
July 1, 2005... Though numbers are hard to come by, many health care industry experts agree that the number of physicians working full or part time for information technology departments has risen dramatically. "A few years ago, I would rarely run into a...

ROI Becoming a 'Mission Possible': Some health care organizations are finding that document management systems deliver returns on investments in a variety of ways.(return on investments)(document management systems )
July 1, 2005... Many health care organizations have embarked on a mission to reduce or replace paper document management processes to upgrade efficiency, cut costs and improve access to patient data. Thanks to document imaging technology, some have found...

Getting Software on the Cheap?: Vendors serving small practices know they have to make electronic records software more affordable; they just want a realistic debate about pricing.
July 1, 2005... For months, David Brailer, M.D., the national coordinator for health information technology, has pressed software vendors to offer electronic medical records software to small physician practices for $100 per physician per month. That...

Contracts Update.(Contracts of health care information technology companies)
July 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.
July 1, 2005... Advertiser Site Addresses Page # AGFA www.agfa.com/healthcare 19 AHIMA www.ahima.org/convention 76 ...

Readers' Perspectives.
July 1, 2005... "The health care information technology industry is making satisfactory progress toward interoperability of information systems. Do you agree or disagree?" AGREE R. Nehruraj Technical Architect iSOFT India Pvt. Ltd., Chennai ...