Health Management Technology articles from September 2008

Health Management Technology archives from September 2008

Through a glass darkly.(From the Editor)(Editorial)
September 1, 2008... Congress, today, overrode President Bush's veto and passed H.R. 6331, a bill originally designed to delay a scheduled decrease in Medicare reimbursements that became so packed with Congressional fodder it was guaranteed to be vetoed by the...

New FORE director named.(Briefly)(Foundation of Research and Education appoints Mary Madison )(Brief article)
September 1, 2008... Mary Madison was recently named executive director of the American Health Information Management Association's (AHIMA) Foundation of Research and Education (FORE). Madison comes to the position after serving both as executive director of the...

HealthVault selects two OpenID providers.(Briefly)(Brief article)
September 1, 2008... Microsoft has finally implemented the OpenID authentication platform allowing for OpenID logins on its HealthVault medical site. Currently, HealthVault will only support authentication from two OpenID providers: TrustBearer and VeriSign....

HHS Secretary Supports eprescribing incentives.(ePrescribing)(Health and Human Services)(Brief article)
September 1, 2008... Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Mike Leavitt recently discussed his support for the electronic prescribing incentive program scheduled to begin in January of next year. The program is part of the far more expansive Medicare...

Congress overrides Medicare Act Veto.(Healthcare and Government)(Brief article)
September 1, 2008... Congress was successful in overriding President Bush's Veto of the Medicare Improvements for Patients and Providers Act (H.R. 6331). The substantial piece of legislation has quite a few far-reaching directives and actions effecting Medicare,...

Jonathan Teich, M.D. Chief Medical Informatics Officer, Elsevier.(Q & A: The Healthcare CIO)(Interview)
September 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Jonathan Teich, M.D., PhD, is CMIO for Elsevier, a leading publisher of scientific, technical and health information. He also serves as assistant professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and as a...

Path to insight: financial departments make or break organizations. Can BI improve healthcare CFO success?(Financial Information Systems)
September 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] "If a business intelligence solution can't help you make sound decisions about your company's future quickly, easily and with confidence, it's neither good business nor intelligent." Jim Goodnight, Ph.D, CEO, SAS...

Hybrid encounter documenting: blending templated and narrated note taking within one EMR offers caregivers multiple ways to document patient visits, swiftly and accurately.(Speech Recognition/Transcription: Case History)
September 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] I remember going to see our family doctor many years ago; I must have been about 14 years old. The visit was probably for something like a sore throat. When he completed the physical exam he wrote a paper...

The second time around: a California practice learns lessons from their first EMR and integrates their PM with a new, on-demand EMR for an improved bottom line and clinical workflow.(PHRs/EHRs/EMRs: Case History)(personal health record/ electronic health record/ electronic medical record)
September 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] In 2000, I founded Pediatric Partners, which at the time was a single-site practice with three physicians located 60 miles northeast of San Diego. Like most small practices, Pediatric Partners found itself...

True believer: a multispeciality early adopter implements a multidisciplinary charge-capture solution and streamlines continuity of care.(RCM: Charge Capture: Case History)
September 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Paperless medicine has been touted as the vision of many progressive healthcare provider organizations since the late 1990s. The notion that paper and its associated administrative tasks--printing, collection, data...

Visual confirmation: a children's healthcare system utilizes educational video modules to bolster the informed consent process.(Informed Consent)(Nemours)
September 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] As one of the nation's largest health systems dedicated to the health of children, Nemours employs some 4,400 professionals, including more than 430 specialty and subspecialty physicians and surgeons. We cared for...

New brands.(Products and Services)
September 1, 2008... Studio is a new consumer product line from Dell that it says is designed inside and out for self-expression and creative living. The first Studio products are two distinctively styled laptops, the Dell Studio 15 and Dell Studio 17. Inspired by...

Srint gets "Touchy" over iPhone.(Products and Services)
September 1, 2008... Samsung introduces the Instinct for Sprint customers who love the sleek and stylish touchscreen experience offered with Apple's iPhone but not the idea of switching wireless service providers to enjoy it The Instinct is Sprint s first EV-DO Rev...

Brothers in arms.(Thought Leaders)
September 1, 2008... Scanning recent headlines, it is difficult to ignore the fact that radio-frequency identification (RFID) is receiving substantially more ink than bar coding. Even in healthcare, the consensus seems to be that bar coding is no longer...