Brothers in arms.(Thought Leaders)
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 . . .
Srint gets "Touchy" over iPhone.(Products and
Services)
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 . . .
New brands.(Products and Services)
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 . . .
Visual confirmation: a children's healthcare system utilizes
educational video modules to bolster the informed consent
process.(
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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 . . .
Part of the equation: a sober assessment of the CMS PQRI
initiative reveals a promising future for the program.(RCM: Claims and
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July 1, 2008 marked the first anniversary of the Physician Quality
Reporting Initiative (PQRI), the pay-for-performance (P4P) program of
the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid . . .
True believer: a multispeciality early adopter implements a
multidisciplinary charge-capture solution and streamlines continuity
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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 . . .
The second time around: a California practice learns lessons from
their first EMR and integrates their PM with a new, on-demand
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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 . . .
Hybrid encounter documenting: blending templated and narrated
note taking within one EMR offers caregivers multiple ways to docu
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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 . . .
Path to insight: financial departments make or break
organizations. Can BI improve healthcare CFO success?(Financial
Information
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"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 . . .
Jonathan Teich, M.D. Chief Medical Informatics Officer,
Elsevier.(Q & A: The Healthcare CIO)
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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 . . .
Congress overrides Medicare Act Veto.(Healthcare and
Government)
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 . . .
HHS Secretary Supports eprescribing
incentives.(ePrescribing)
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 . . .
HealthVault selects two OpenID providers.(Briefly)
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 . . .
New FORE director named.(Briefly)
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 . . .
Through a glass darkly.(From the Editor)
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 . . .
If you build it, don't expect them to come: there's a
problem with imposing top-down HIEs on localized healthcare communities.
T
One interesting problem with health information exchanges (HIE), as
we know them today, starts with the implied promise in the name itself.
There is little to no focus on actual information . . .
ScImage.(NewsMakers)
Supply chain services company Broadlane awarded ScImage a 3-year
contract for its muhi-department picture archiving and communications
system for radiology, cardiology and other image-producing . . .
Life:WIRE.(NewsMakers)
CPM Health Centres Inc. is using mobile communications and wireless
health information solutions from Toronto-based Life:WIRE Corp. for
improving clinical outcomes, care management and . . .
D2 Sales.(NewsMakers)
UW Health is deploying the My Patient Passport Express kiosks from
D2 Sales as part of a pilot program that began last year. The first
kiosks are operating at the UW Health West Clinic and offer . . .
Design Clinicals.(NewsMakers)
Myrtue Medical Center is implementing the MedsTracker software from
Design Clinicals to improve medication management for patients and to
exceed The Joint Commission's national Patient safety goals . . .
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