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SRS and Ingenix have formed a partnership to expand clinical, financial and administrative operations options for SRS’ customers.
GE Healthcare IT has updated its Centricity Enterprise EMR clinical, financial and administrative software package. The company also has integrated two-factor authentication into its Advanced ePrescribing technology for Centricity EMR.
Written by Mary Stevens
OJAI, Calif.--Probably no one goes to medical school intent on becoming a CMIO, said Geeta Nayyar, MD, MBA, assistant clinical professor at George Washington University in Washington, D.C., during a discussion at the AMDIS Physician-Computer Symposium earlier this week. However, the interest is there and must be cultivated to meet the growing demand for medical informatics skills, she said.
Medical imaging developer DR Systems has added a new capability to its cloud-based technology platform, Electronic Medical Information Exchange (eMix), the eMix Preview.
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TeraMedica has released its new cardiology imaging and information manager, Evercore Cardiology Vendor-Neutral Architecture.
Written by Mary Stevens
Our 2010 CMIO Top Trends Survey says: Federal initiatives are driving health IT spending and will continue to do so in the foreseeable future. HITECH might succeed—or not. Economic uncertainty has many facilities struggling—but a majority of organizations are increasing their budgets, adopting new technologies, and hiring and training staff.
Written by Kaitlyn Dmyterko
IT-enabled medication management strategies tap computerized provider order entry (CPOE), bar-coded electronic medication administration records and clinical decision support modules in electronic health records to reduce medication errors. They have their work cut out for them: The Institute of Medicine estimates that 1.5 million preventable medication errors occur in the U.S. every year, costing some $8 billion.
Written by Jeff Byers
A pair of recent Health Affairs studies offer some interesting insight: First, EMR adoption is farther along than you might expect, and many of those EMRs already meet a significant number of the criteria for meaningful use. Second, looking to the future, patients could have more of a say in EMRs.
Written by William F. Bria, MD, CMIO
The inaugural CMIO 2010 Top Trends and CMIO Census gauged health IT leaders’ thoughts about the HITECH Act with three questions: Would the act achieve its goals within five years? Will more money be needed for it to achieve those goals? What were the biggest organizational obstacles to implementation? To a certain extent, the responses to these questions show how our perceptions of the HITECH Act, and health IT in general, have evolved nationally.
Less than one in 10 U.S. adults now have EMRs or use email to contact their doctors, according to a Harris Interactive/HealthDay poll.
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Written by Jeff Byers
Although it was just released in April, Apple's iPad has been on the minds and in the hands of numerous healthcare professionals seeking a balance between the convenience of their smartphones and the screen areas of laptops. While Apple has reportedly sold two million iPads globally as of the end of last month, early healthcare provider adopters have found the device, its uses and environment are already in flux.
Medical image management provider Acuo Technologies has inked vendor neutral archiving contracts with Western Pennsylvania Allegheny Health System of Pittsburgh and Medical Imaging Consultants of Edmonton, Alberta.
Healthcare interoperability technologies provider Etiam has introduced Clinical Capture Suite, its offering for integrating multimedia to the enterprise archive.
MINNEAPOLIS--Sorna showcased new components to Reviewer CD software during the Society of Imaging Informatics in Medicine (SIIM) annual meeting last week.
Written by Justine Cadet
Healthcare systems are utilizing new techniques to mine large amounts of biological, clinical and administrative data within clinical data repositories (CDRs) and EMRs. From these data, administrators and physicians are seeking out and often discovering a variety of previously unknown endpoints, including novel clinical associations for patients and quality indicators. These data discoveries can lead to better patient care and potential cost savings in the long run.
Written by Gina Narcisi
A diagnostic picture is often worth more than a thousand words. But whether—and how—to include images in the EMR as a requirement for meaningful use is an ongoing discussion. Thus far, images have been excluded from federal discussions of the criteria for meaningful use. At the grassroots level, however, the debate over images and meaningful use is lively to say the least. Many physicians claim images are a vital tool for accurate and timely diagnosis and should be at least considered in the scenarios for meaningful use. Others believe healthcare providers have too many other requirements on their plates right now.
Written by Kaitlyn Dmyterko
DENVER—To meet looming meaningful use deadlines, practices must shop for the right EMR and not let the outlying fears of technology and possible challenges outweigh the benefits, said David L. Scher, MD, from PinnacleHealth System and Associated Cardiologists in Harrisburg, Pa., during a presentation at the 31st annual Heart Rhythm Society (HRS) scientific session May 14.
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“We’re beginning a revolution the way information is collected, managed, used and purposed for patients in the U.S. healthcare system,” said David Blumenthal, MD, chair of the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT, in opening remarks at an audioconference training session on meaningful use and EHR certification last week.
In Part 1 of our closer look at the final rules for meaningful use and EHR certification standards, CMIO’s Jeff Byers spoke with David Blumenthal, MD, chair of the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT. In Part 2, CMIOs weigh in with mixed reviews.
The framework for meaningful use is “something that had to be done and has been started intelligently,” John P. Glaser, PhD, vice president and CIO of Partners HealthCare System told CMIO. However, the challenges of becoming meaningful users and optimizing health information exchange will require unprecedented levels of communication within organizations and among healthcare systems, he said.
The contractual obligations in the notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) on modifications to the HIPAA privacy, security and enforcement rules under the HITECH Act for business associates and downstream entities are game changers, according to Amy S. Leopard, JD, from Walter and Haverfield, during a webinar sponsored by the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS).
Standardizing performance measures, with the help of health IT, will make it possible to collect the right data at the right time to support performance measurement, clinical decision support, clinical research and quality improvement, said Janet M. Corrigan, PhD, president and CEO of the National Quality Forum (NQF) during a webinar hosted by the forum on June 17.