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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.
ATLANTA–At the HIMSS10 conference this week, McKesson displayed a variety of EHR software ranging from systems for large hospitals and networks to products for small physician practices.
To enable widespread health IT use across the U.S., we need fairness among the types of resources physicians can receive via stimulus money, help for outpatient care not covered by the HITECH Act and a fair benchmark for achieving meaningful use (other than 100 percent), according to Michael Zaroukian, MD, PhD, CMIO and associate professor of medicine, Michigan State University.
Written by Gina Narcisi
ATLANTA--“Health IT support [within a hospital] may not have the skill set to manage images, and radiology support does not have skill set to manage integration of all hospital information, so we need both groups to work together. I think that both groups together will make a much stronger system,” said Janice Honeyman-Buck, PhD, independent imaging informatics consultant and editor-in-chief of the Journal of Digital Imaging, during her session Wednesday at HIMSS10.
ATLANTA–At a roundtable discussion at HIMSS, David Blumenthal, MD, National Coordinator for Health IT, took a range of questions from about three dozen AMDIS members and physician IT leaders and emphasized the need for CMIOs and healthcare professionals to submit their comments to CMS as well as their congressional representatives.
Written by Editorial Staff
Monday, March 1, 12:45 PM - 1:10 PM Co-sponsor:
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
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Sunday, February 28, 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Learn and discuss how to leverage the approved HITSP Remote Monitoring specifications to improve patient care. When done properly, these investments also will facilitate more reliable, safe, cost-effective, and secure interoperable health data collection, sharing, and decision support for EHR, EMR PHR, health information exchange and health Internet applications.
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Saturday, February 27, 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Patient-centric, longitudinal and automated quality measurement is an essential component of meaningful use. This requires the development of standardized quality data sets and work flows that enable automation of quality measures through electronic health records. This session will explore national priorities and goals related to meaningful use of EHR data for purposes of quality measurement and performance improvement. The presenter will review the requirements for enabling automated quality measurement as a by-product of EHR data capture. Examples showing how standardized quality data sets can enable the power of the EHR in quality measurement will be presented.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Monday, March 1, 1:15 PM - 1:30 PM
Cosponsor: HIMSS EHR Association
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Monday, March 1, 12:15 PM - 1:15 PM
This session will describe how to create a community data exchange between multiple care providers, and how a community of providers increased quality of care through the use of a community exchange application. The presenter will discuss barriers to a community HIE and lessons learned during the implementation rollout within this community.
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Sunday, February 28, 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Malpractice liability is a leading concern of physicians who implement or avoid implementing EHRs, PHRs and HIEs within their practice. This session will focus on the malpractice implications of the use and non-use of EHRs, PHRs, HIEs and other sources of electronically available health information.
Written by Editorial Staff
Monday, March 1, 12:15 PM - 1:15 PM
President Obama has often referred to electronic health records as a solution to reduce medical errors. To achieve this goal, we propose the "Eight Rights of EHR-Based Safe Care."
Acumen Solutions has been selected to provide a cloud computing customer relationship management and project management application to the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services' Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC).
EHR vendors must incorporate software-as-a-service (SaaS) and speech recognition services into their product portfolio if they wish to take advantage of market opportunities in 2010 EHR market, according to a report by market research firm Ovum.
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) in the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has made available two additional grant programs to support the training and development of the skilled workforce required to support adoption and use of health IT.
The Certification Commission for Health Information Technology (CCHIT) has certified EHR technology against proposed federal standards to support providers in qualifying for incentives under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA). A total of 14 products have now been certified under its two new programs—CCHIT Certified 2011 Comprehensive and Preliminary ARRA 2011—launched on Oct. 7, 2009.
David Blumenthal, MD, the national coordinator for health IT at the Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS), on Friday announced plans to make available $60 million to support the development of Strategic Health IT Advanced Research Projects (SHARP).
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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.
