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Royal Philips Electronics is collaborating with Microsoft to build on Philips Healthcare’s foundation of healthcare informatics and clinical decision support offerings at the point of care.
Written by Editorial Staff
Monday, March 1, 2:15 PM - 2:40 PM
Written by Editorial Staff
Monday, March 1, 9:45 AM - 10:45 AM Along with the rapid growth of EHRs and Clinical Decision Support, there is another transformation of worldwide IT on the heels of wireless high speed internet and the truly "smart" smart phones enabling high definition data access. This discussion will review the "here and now" medical applications of new technologies and their impact on the growing field of telehealth.
Written by Editorial Staff
Sunday, February 28, 9:15 AM - 10:15 AM
One of the great promises of health information technology (HIT) is improved quality, safety and efficiencies and as a by-product; improved population health. However, the federal government realizes that implementing technology will not alone improve patient outcomes, but 'meaningful use' of that technology is the lever needed to attain the hoped-for benefits. Clinical decision support (CDS) is a powerful tool that can be used to deliver evidence to decision makers at the point of care. This session will provide a brief overview of the literature supporting the use of CDS to improve outcomes and include examples of how facilities use evidence to improve decision-making. It will also focus on the medication use process and the high level steps for implementing CDS, from stakeholder engagement to implementation to results to ongoing knowledge management.
Written by Editorial Staff
Sunday, February 28, 8:45 AM - 9:45 AM
While American medicine has been at the confluence of pressures to improve the quality and safety of care, the introduction of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) offered a renewed call for the integration of information technology in all aspects of health care delivery. Many clinicians are uncertain about the relationship of these two national program initiatives--to improve quality and promote the adoption, and meaningful use, of health information technology. We will examine current national health care policy in both quality/safety and information technology with the expectation of describing one improvement path for institutions and individuals with performance expectations in both domains.
Written by Editorial Staff
Thursday, March 4, 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Recent health IT initiatives require the use of clinical decision support. CDS implementations vary, but current liability language excludes all parties except the user. The expansion of CDS will expand user liability.
Written by Editorial Staff
Wednesday, March 3, 2:15 PM - 3:15 PM
CDS is an essential component of driving improved healthcare outcomes. ARRA, and its requirements for meaningful EHR use, further accentuates the importance of 'getting CDS right.' The session builds on HIMSS' rich history in providing its membership and the industry with valuable insights into critical factors for CDS success via books, collaboratives educational sessions and the like.
Written by Editorial Staff
Tuesday, March 2, 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Discover next-generation, workflow-sensitive, knowledge-delivery tools that can significantly impact quality, safety and clinician/patient satisfaction. Learn about national government and industry programs supporting usable, implementable and shareable clinical decision support for national quality guidelines.
Written by Editorial Staff
Tuesday, March 2, 9:45 AM - 10:45 AM
Come and learn how one practice is able to use EHR data to support clinical decisions. This workshop will show how to use the EHR as a tool to improve practice workflow.
Written by Editorial Staff
Tuesday, March 2, 9:45 AM - 10:45 AM
A Clinical Decision Intelligence System is an enterprise-wide data warehouse created to identify trends, interrelate disparate types of information (clinical, financial and eligibility), and support data-driven clinical and operational decision-making throughout the Geisinger Health System.
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Written by Editorial Staff
Monday, March 1, 1:15 PM - 1:30 PM
Cosponsor: HIMSS EHR Association
Written by Editorial Staff
Monday, March 1, 9:45 AM - 10:45 AM
This interactive conversation among participants is designed to elicit specific, major challenges and successes experienced in the effort to improve outcomes with CDS, and thread together themes and pearls. The goal is for each attendee to leave the session with specific, actionable lessons from the interchange that will be valuable in their CDS efforts.
Written by Editorial Staff
Clinical decision support has reached a critical juncture. Technology improvements enable CDS systems to gather a wider variety of patient data to provide more useful advice that assists clinicians’ decision making. Converging standards and integration initiatives enable more stand-alone CDS tools to work together in actual systems.
iSoft Health will begin distributing clinical information systems provider iMDsoft’s MetaVision suite in Germany.
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.
Written by Mary Stevens & Mary Tierney
Change is everywhere…Opportunity is here. The theme of this month’s HIMSS annual meeting has us shaking our heads and saying to ourselves ‘I sure hope so’—we hope opportunity is here, it’s time! For sure, opportunity awaits in the four days of preconference and educational sessions, specialty activities, networking events and career development opportunities that HIMSS has put together this year for the annual meeting in Atlanta and across the vast exhibit show floor. Educational sessions promise actionable information on achieving higher levels of cost efficiencies, EMR adoption, privacy and security, CPOE and quality and patient safety.
Written by Rich Rydell
In early 1992, the first edition of the book, The Physician-Computer Connection: A Practical Guide to Physician Involvement in Hospital Information Systems was published, and a few months later, the first Physician-Computer Connection Symposium attracted a few dozen IT-focused physicians to a conference center in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho. Each year’s meeting attracted more physicians, and in 1996, at the fifth annual symposium, a suggestion was made to allow the attendees to continue and promote their collegial relationships, not only at the summer symposium, but throughout the year.
While the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) and its Center for Health IT supports the goals of the new meaningful use regulations announced by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), the organization stated that the regulations, as proposed, pose hurdles that challenge small- and medium-size medical practices’ ability to achieve all that is required to receive the incentive payments.
Ellen Makar of Yale-New Haven Health System, Conn., and Sandra Ng of the University of California, San Francisco Medical Center were both selected by the Alliance for Nursing Informatics to participate in a two-year Nursing Informatics Emerging Leaders Program.
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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.
The state of Maine currently has the largest operating statewide exchange in the country in relation to population. Although Devore Culver, Executive Director of Maine’s HealthInfoNet, expects that distinction to change in the months ahead, the state’s HIE is entering the final months of its demonstration phase, and is slated to move in to its full statewide implementation in the second half of 2010. Culver, who is former CIO of Eastern Maine Health Care, recently spoke with CMIO about the progress HealthInfoNet has made.
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.
