Health Data Management articles from September 2007

Health Data Management archives from September 2007

Coming Up: Two Milestones for Health Data Management.
September 1, 2007... Every business magazine must evolve into more than just a monthly print publication if it wants to fulfill its mission of delivering the most timely, important and actionable information to its audience. For that reason, Health Data...

Editorial/Ad Index.
September 1, 2007... 3M Health Information Systems 38 A Accenture 58 Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality 14 Alberti, Jack, Hartford (Conn.) Hospital 28 Allscripts LLC 42 American Academy of Family Physicians 16 Arlotto,...

I.T.-enabled medication reconciliation is an important patient safety tool that all hospitals should adopt. Agree or Disagree?
September 1, 2007... Source: Health Data Management Web site, www.healthdatamanagement.com, July 2007 survey results. 681 responses. Online Survey Results Disagree: 6% Agree: 94% AGREE Lewis Hughes Director of Clinical Informatics...

Signs Point to More HIPAA Enforcement.
September 1, 2007... Last spring Atlanta-based Piedmont Hospital underwent an unannounced federal audit of its compliance with the HIPAA security rule. That surprise audit may be a harbinger of things to come, says Barry Runyon, a research director at Gartner Inc.,...

I.T. to Help Disabled Kids.
September 1, 2007... The Center for Multi Media Arts at the University of Memphis (Tenn.) FedEx Institute of Technology is working on an initiative designed to help disabled children at the Bloorview Kids Rehab Hospital in Ontario, Canada, to use the Internet. ...

Hospital Takes Med Rec Into The Home.
September 1, 2007... Fauquier Health System in Warrenton, Va., is using electronic connectivity to improve medication reconciliation by having a better accounting of a patient's use of medications at home. The delivery system's 86-bed Fauquier Hospital in June...

Microsoft Puts AZYXXI to the Test.
September 1, 2007... Redmond, Wash.-based Microsoft Corp. is moving into the health information exchange space through a project to link hospital emergency departments in southeast Wisconsin. The vendor's Azyxxi integration software will be used by the...

Free or Low-Cost EHR Comes With a Catch.
September 1, 2007... Since 1999, Glenwood Systems LLC has offered free physician practice management software bundled with outsourced billing and collections services. The Waterbury, Conn.-based vendor followed up in 2003 with a free electronic health records...

AHRQ Wants to Exchange Innovations.
September 1, 2007... The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality is seeking industry ideas it can feature in a new program to accelerate the development and adoption of innovations in health care. The Washington-based agency's Health Care Innovations Exchange...

PHR Initiative Hits Legal Snag.
September 1, 2007... A personal health records project announced last December by several major corporations plans to go live by the end of the year despite a legal dispute with its only development partner and challenges to hitting its funding milestone. The...

Leavitt, AAFP Concerned with I.T. Bill.
September 1, 2007... Health and Human Services Secretary Michael Leavitt and the Leawood, Kan.-based American Academy of Family Physicians have sent letters to the U.S. Senate expressing concerns about health information technology legislation that the Health,...

Newsline Digest.
September 1, 2007... 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. NEW...

Stock Chart.(Statistical table)
September 1, 2007... HEALTH CARE TECHNOLOGY COMPANIES, as of August 7, 2007 Price Price as a One Six One Mkt Company on % of 52 month month year YTD Cap name Ticker 8/7/2007...

Is I.T. the Key to Preventing Hospital Infections: Organizations use various systems to help track and manage HAIs.
September 1, 2007... Patricia Burns, R.N., has fought hospital-acquired infections at St. Elizabeth Medical Center for more than 30 years. Over time, paperwork has become another powerful enemy. Burns, the Edgewood, Ky.-based organization's infection control...

Tackling a persistent problem.
September 1, 2007... While some hospitals are using various information systems to track and analyze a slew of different types of hospital-acquired infections, Chester County Hospital is focusing its efforts on just the most persistent ones. ...

CDC offers HAI tracking tech.
September 1, 2007... For more than 30 years, the Atlanta-based Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has collected and analyzed voluntarily reported hospital-acquired infection data from select provider organizations. But last June, the agency made a...

Giving Transcription A Trim: Speech recognition is helping to cut the high cost of entering physicians' notes into records.
September 1, 2007... For years, many health care organizations have been trying to sort out what role, if any, speech recognition can play in reducing the high cost of transcribing physicians' dictated notes. At Baystate Medical Center, executives concluded...

Tips for a successful implementation.(Brief article)
September 1, 2007... Radiologists at Children's Medical Center in Dallas are using front-end speech recognition to eliminate transcription and dramatically reduce turnaround time on their reports. Susan Demorsky, manager of clinical application...

Will EHRs Lead to More, or Less, Demand?
September 1, 2007... Baystate Medical System is using speech recognition technology to enter doctors' notes into its electronic health records system. But the need for doctors to dictate notes likely will diminish over time as caregivers make broader use of the...

A New Battery Of Tests For Lab Systems: Customers are pushing for, and getting, enhancements in this mature technology.
September 1, 2007... When ordering certain laboratory tests, some physicians at Northeast Georgia Diagnostic Clinic in Gainesville always wind up ordering a second accompanying test. Until recently, that meant placing an order for the initial test in the laboratory...

New tools aid genomics research.
September 1, 2007... Laboratory work is an integral part of genomics research, yet laboratory information systems vendors offer few specialized tools for researchers, says David McPherson, senior laboratory information systems officer at Mount Sinai Hospital in...

View from the street.
September 1, 2007... Laboratory information systems have been available for years, but their use by labs isn't universal. Executives at Carmel, Ind.-based Orchard Software, a lab information system vendor, estimate that 90% of hospital laboratories have a system....

QuadraMed Tries to Turn Corner: Few health information technology vendors were as acquisitive as QuadraMed Corp. in the 1990s.
September 1, 2007... Originally headquartered in California and now in Reston, Va., QuadraMed grew by acquisitions-more than 30-on its way toward being a one-stop shop for I.T. needs. But it was too much too fast and the new century brought a host of problems....

Connecting for Clinical Trials: A Web application reaches out to data and researchers.
September 1, 2007... Clinical trials and paper seemingly go together like peanut butter and jelly. But some provider organizations are moving much of their trial work to the Internet using Web-based applications that enable them to collect trial information and...

EHR Project is Something Special: Gastroenterology practice find that pre-customized application pays off quickly.
September 1, 2007... James Leavitt, M.D., says his first time using an electronic health record was an experience similar to the first time he drove a car: demanding and nerve wracking. "Every click was slow and tedious," says the executive director at the...

Identifying At-Risk Patients: Predictive modeling helps Idaho Blue Cross to emphasize preventive care.
September 1, 2007... Blue Cross of Idaho wanted more information on what treatments its members were receiving and whether providers were following established clinical guidelines. The Boise-based payer also sought to identify patients that may be at risk for...

Stats Snapshot.
September 1, 2007... Many consumers believe that electronic health records are important tools for quality care, and physicians agree. But the vast majority of physicians want incentives from other health care stakeholders for adopting the technology, according to...

Is All This Technology Really Making Patients Safer?: I.T. can help hospitals increase accountability and improve patient history.
September 1, 2007... As the health care community continues to embrace technology - often because it is mandated by regulations such as HIPAA - we are often too busy to stop and think about the impact of all of this technology on our patients: Does it indeed make...