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Primary care physicians, meet your regional extension centers
Regional extension centers can help you select and implement an electronic health record system and attest to meaningful use. There are 62 RECs spread across the country. Implementing an electronic health record (EHR) system in your primary care practice is no small task. You must consider hundreds of individual elements about the system itself, plus the cost, the hit to your practice’s productivity during installation, and, of course, compliance with [...]
HDM Accepting Nominations for 2011 EHR Game Changers Recognition Program
Health Data Management is now accepting nominations for its 2nd Annual EHR Game Changers recognition program, created to honor individuals who have been true game changers in the design, advocacy, deployment and development of electronic health records technology. Individuals from across the spectrum of industry stakeholders–hospitals, group practices, payers, associations, federal and state governments, and health technology vendors–have helped in the evolution of EHR technology and its increasing adoption by [...]
Communitywide HIE a 'foundational element' in health system's ACO strategy
Eastern Connecticut Health Network (ECHN), a not-for-profit healthcare system, has contracted with MobileMD, a Yardley, Pa.-based vendor, to help it build a communitywide health information exchange. The HIE not only will provide connectivity among ECHN’s two hospitals and five ambulatory-care sites, but also will reach out to non-ECHN providers, including competing healthcare systems in the Manchester, Conn., area. The HIE will be available to community physicians, as well as a [...]
The HIT of ACOs, part 2: Beyond health information exchange
Will accountable care organizations follow the lead of HIEs in analyzing data across participating providers, or surpass them? In this series, we are examining ways health IT can best support the goals of Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) for health reform. In our first article we focused on how clinical care and administrative data, as well as software tools, can be arrayed to support quality and efficiency analytics and reporting for an ACO. [...]
Can Healthcare Do Security Successfully?
I’m going to answer this question with what I believe to be the correct answer: Yes, the healthcare industry is capable of doing security successfully. I base that belief not only on my experience over the last 20 plus years, but also because of the many examples of organizations that are getting it right, and the many industry leaders who have proven that security can be implemented successfully. So why [...]
Developing and Implementing System-Wide Policies
This is the fourth article in a five-part series designed to spur you toward privacy and security policies that will help your organization achieve HIPAA compliance. So far, we’ve covered risk assessment, Trojans andcoordinating information across departments. In this article, we discuss the important step of crafting and implementing policies system wide. When discussing policies related to HIPAA compliance, they must be system wide, not department specific. Just as we discussed collaboration among [...]
Using Game Mechanics to Enhance eLearning
eLearning has revolutionized the study arena in many ways. Presently, almost all recognized global universities have eLearning programs for various disciplines. Experts are trying to find out new ways through which students can learn faster and gain better knowledge of subjects so as to impart better learning on the electronic medias. LMS or Learning Management Systems are considering many new dynamics in this field. Gamification or game mechanics is one [...]
ezDI Makes the Case for Mature Analytics in Healthcare Cost Containment
As a leader in the field of healthcare analytics, ezDI has constantly escalated in the dimension of the market and business intelligence. The present director has shared the preview of the healthcare cost containment with the industry recently. According to the esteemed director, plans formulated by most companies do not exactly have the required level of maturity that is demanded by most employers. Putting light on the making of the [...]
Commentary: Why RECs and HIEs need each other
Regional Extension Centers (RECs) and health information exchange (HIE) initiatives share a common purpose: enabling the exchange of patient information to improve health outcomes and care quality. Their individual goals and objectives are also complementary. RECs support physicians in the selection, implementation and use of electronic health records (EHRs), while HIEs provide the infrastructure across which the information collected by those EHRs can be exchanged. Yet in our work with [...]
Hospital Finds Workflow Automation Solution
The Children’s Hospital of Boston, MA, a 392-bed comprehensive center for pediatric health care, records approximately 18,000 inpatient admissions each year, which translates to more than 150 outpatient programs and emergency services care for more than 300,000 patients annually. Children’s Hospital, home to the world’s largest pediatric research facility with 1,200 driven scientists and staff, has made it their goal to continuously improve the effectiveness and efficiency of the medical [...]
Building an HIE with minimal IT or know-how
The Western Washington Rural Health Care Collaborative (WWRHCC) has a formidable challenge. The nonprofit health network comprising 10 critical access hospitals (CAHs) serves some 288,000 residents who for the most part are elderly and uninsured, underinsured, or are Medicare/Medicaid beneficiaries. Access to specialists such as orthopedic doctors or cardiologists is difficult for a population living in an isolated and underfunded region, said Andrea Perkins-Peppers, HIM/IT director for Forks Community Hospital. “Being [...]
Efficiencies Converge with EHRs, Practice Management
As providers adopt electronic health records systems, they gradually become more adept with the technology as they flip the switch on advanced features and become conversant with the capabilities and quirks of the software. Each advance, however small, leads to more efficiencies. Before getting an EHR at Hillside Medical Office in Wichita, Kan., phone messages for nurses were written on paper. Now they’re put directly in the EHR while the [...]
6 tips for HIE sustainability
The widespread development of health information exchange is happening quickly, and with it comes worries about confidentiality, privacy and security. But its benefits far outweigh potential concerns and include improved quality of care and reduced healthcare costs. Despite HIE’s reserved reception among hospitals and practices nationwide, many have said it will play a significant part in meaningful use stages down the road. And since there’s no time like the present [...]
Health America, Preferred Primary Care Physicians partner on patient-centered care
HealthAmerica and Preferred Primary Care Physicians have launched a new pilot program aimed at providing more coordinated and patient-centered primary care and improved communications among patients, physicians and care teams. Preferred consists of 32 board-certified physicians and five physician extenders specializing in internal medicine and family practice. It has 14 practice locations in the South Hills and three locations in Uniontown in Fayette County. In addition, Preferred offers state-of-the-art outpatient [...]
