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ATLANTA—As U.S. lawmakers push facilities to adopt health IT technologies, problems often arise during the implementation process demonstrating that facilities may not be ready to make the switch toward meaningful use, said John Windle, MD, of the University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha, during his presentation at the American College of Cardiology (ACC) scientific sessions Sunday.
FHN Hospital has selected Wolters Kluwer Health's ProVation Order Sets, powered by UpToDate Decision Support, to automate the creation, deployment and maintenance of order sets.
The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) is questioning whether the current proposed regulations in the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) EHR Incentive Program allot enough time for providers to achieve meaningful use before they are penallized.
ATLANTA—Meaningful use—a concept introduced one year ago—appears to be spurring an increase in health IT spending along with a brightening economy, according to the 21 annual Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) leadership survey, released today during the society’s conference.
Technology company Zanett (Booth # 5451) and St. Vincent Health will present the new, jointly developed Clinical Online Delivery System (CODS) software at the Microsoft Health Users Group Exchange during HIMSS10 in Atlanta on Feb. 28.
iSoft Health will begin distributing clinical information systems provider iMDsoft’s MetaVision suite in Germany.
Citrus Memorial Health System has chosen to upgrade its hospital information system (HIS) with health IT company McKesson’s Paragon community HIS. As part of the agreement, McKesson will remotely host the HIS.
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Recent requirements from the Joint Commission and the American College of Radiology (ACR) add to the growing number of quality demands being placed upon radiology departments. In an increasingly complex regulatory and financial environment, comprehensive quality management processes are essential. The digital dashboard holds the answers to today’s problems—if you only you dare to fully utilize them.
West Georgia Health System has selected health IT company Wolters Kluwer Health’s ProVation Order Sets to automate the creation, deployment and maintenance of order sets at the West Georgia Medical Center.
Twin County Regional Hospital, a 141-bed hospital with several affiliated physician practices in Galax, Va., is planning to expand its McKesson Paragon hospital information system to include inpatient and outpatient EHRs in the facilitatation of information sharing between the sites.
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A survey from the Medical Group Management Association (MGMA) found that 76 percent of respondents from mostly independent medical practices believe that the government should fully pilot test the 2013 and 2015 meaningful use criteria before requiring them.
Joint Commission Resources, an affiliate of the Joint Commission, has launched a new consulting service that will provide an objective evaluation of technology with a patient safety focus.
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ATLANTA--Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital in Palo Alto, Calif., in 2005 went from a Stage One hospital with only ancillaries online applications, to a Stage Four facility, complete with live nursing documentation and partial physician documentation based on the HIMSS analytics model for EMR adoption. Having recently undergone a computer provider order entry (CPOE) activation, Chris Longhurst MD, medical director of clinical informatics at LPCH, spoke about the considerations for CPOE and clinical documentation activation strategies at HIMSS10.
Healthcare organization executives plan to outsource their EMR adoption, equaling an uptick in healthcare industry hiring and a majority believe that the meaningful use deadline will extended by the government, according to a study on where healthcare leaders are in terms of the EHR adoption process from healthcare management consulting firm Beacon Partners.
Spectra Laboratories East, a lab division of Fresenius Medical Care North America in Rockleigh, N.J., has installed McKesson’s Horizon Lab laboratory information system (LIS) to improve workflow associated with more than 30 million tests Spectra performs annually.
Four community hospitals in Texas have formed a rural regional health information organization (RHIO), powered by a Web-based EMR from Prognosis Health Information Systems that provides clinicians with a view of patient data.
Sisters of St. Francis Health Services, a Mishawaka, Ind.-based health network, has deployed clinical decision support company Zynx Health’s ZynxOrder to consolidate and standardize evidence-based order sets for use across its 13 hospitals and healthcare centers.
As part of the effort to make the meaningful use proposal process transparent, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has published the ongoing comments submitted on the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT’s interim final rule and notice of proposed rulemaking on an open-access Web site.
Nearly three-fourths (74 percent) of U.S. health executives polled for a survey on the impact of technology in healthcare reform agree or strongly agree that the American healthcare system is in a “state of crisis,” according to a report by StatCom.
Reporting, product certification and implementation deadlines represent major concerns that could affect efforts to effectively implement EHRs under the recently proposed federal regulations, according to a statement by the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME).
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The use of health IT to reduce rehospitalizations will be welcome but also disruptive, said Stephen Jencks, an independent consultant in healthcare safety during a Feb. 24 webinar on the potential use of health IT to mitigate rehospitalizations, sponsored by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ).
During the Health IT Standards Committee meeting on Feb. 24 in Washington, D.C., the Clinical Operations Workgroup sought to gather comments on proposed recommendations on implementation specifications for content exchange, vocabulary and code set standards for the Interim Final Rule of meaningful use.
In 2006, the Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH), a branch of the FDA, began examining the number of medical device reports they received. Over the past two years, the number of submitted reports has increased, sparking a demand for the CDRH to make a move to electronic reporting.
A new hospital breaking ground usually isn’t breaking news. But the vision of patient care at one new facility, tentatively named Palomar Medical Center West (PMC West), is currently illegal under California state law.