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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.
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.
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.
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.
Written by Gina Narcisi
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.
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.
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.
Sunday, February 28, 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM
CDS, expressed through CPOE, analytics, information prompts, and more, is essential for achieving many meaningful use objectives. Understand current requirements and how to optimize your capabilities now, and discuss future policies and enablers to improve adoption and impact.
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.
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.
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Monday, March 1, 12:15 PM - 1:15 PM
This presentation will review key considerations for computerized practitioner order entry and clinical documentation activation strategies, and share the results of a survey of 20 hospitals representing four major vendors.
Written by Editorial Staff
One year ago, the passage of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), which included the HITECH Act, catapulted EMRs and EHRs into the national spotlight—along with potential incentives and penalties promised for adoption and lack thereof. HIMSS10 is responding with education sessions at this year’s conference focused on EMRs and EHRs, with speakers offering tangible information for utilization, integration and effectiveness for every practice and facility type and size.
The investment has begun in force. HIMSS predicts increases of 52 percent in health IT budgets this year, a sizable surge compared to 2005, when just 18 percent of hospitals reported an increase in their health IT budget. Health IT, namely EMRs and EHRs, are hitting the tipping point. And the numbers prove it. By the end of 2009, HIMSS says, 0.7 percent of hospitals had achieved Stage 7 of HIMSS’ EMR Adoption Model, 1.6 percent were at Stage 6, and 3.8 percent were at Stage 5. Compared with 2005, some three times as many providers were at Stage 4 in 2009, and five times as many were at Stage 3.
Progress toward more sophisticated EMRs is clear and calculated. And many educational sessions next week seek to offer practical insight to continue that progress. Presenters will not only guide practices, facilities and health systems toward ARRA funding through their explication of meaningful use and how to properly implement new technologies, but also will predict what various facilities should look like into the future. The roles of physicians, nurses, administrators and IT leaders are defined to provide clear roadmaps for success. HIMSS sessions drill down into a variety of facility types, tailoring sessions to function such as ambulatory practices as well as hot topics such as CPOE, quality measures and physician documentation. Also, sessions will reveal how EHRs can increase the return on the initial implementation investment, improve quality outcomes and achieve pay-for-performance funds.
For session locations and other details, consult the session program onsite or visit HIMSSconference.org. And to get our daily updates of education sessions from HIMSS, be sure you’re signed up for CMIO News at CMIO.net.
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.
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.
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.
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
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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.
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.
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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.
