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HDM On The Web.

Jun 01, 2008 ... THis month wed like to focus on our Related Items and Featured Content boxes. Late last year we completely overhauled our Web site, and a top priority of that effort was to enable our editors to connect the massive amount of HDM content in a logical and intuitive fashion for readers. ...

Editorial/Ad Index.

Jun 01, 2008 ... A Accuro Healthcare Solutions Inc. 20, 34 A.D.A.M. 42 Aetna Inc. 66, 68 Affiliated Computer Services 39 Allina Hospitals and Clinics 72 American Health Information Management Assoc. 12 ...

Readers' Perspective.

Jun 01, 2008 ... Medicares forthcoming policy to not reimburse for treatment resulting from certain serious medical errors will result in a surge of investment in I.T. to improve patient safety. AGREE Genet Kidane Alpharetta, Ga. Hospitals will opt to invest ...

What Will Stop Data Breaches?

Jun 01, 2008; Goedert, Joseph ... A series of incidents in April called attention to the serious issue of data security. * A former employee of New York-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center was charged with accessing almost 50,000 patient records over two yearsundetectedand selling some of them. ...

Pharmacies to Push E-Prescribing.(Website overview)

Jun 01, 2008 ... Ten major pharmacy chains are launching a national marketing campaign to raise consumer awareness about electronic prescriptions. The chains, which, along with participating independent pharmacies, represent 26,000 stores, are sponsoring a new Web site for consumers, ...

GAO: HHS Weak on Infection Data.

Jun 01, 2008 ... The Government Accountability Office is calling on the Department of Health and Human Services to prioritize efforts to improve data collection on hospital-acquired infections and ways to prevent them. The GAO is an investigative arm of Congress. In a new report published April ...

Hospitals Cooperate for eICU.

Jun 01, 2008 ... Six community hospitals in Maryland will use grant funds to implement telemedicine technology that enables continuous remote monitoring of intensive care units. The hospitals have formed Maryland eCare LLC as an umbrella organization to cooperate in sharing resources to improve ...

Brailer Firm Invests in E-Prescribing.

Jun 01, 2008 ... Health Evolution Partners, a private equity firm led by David Brailer, M.D., former national coordinator for health information technology, has invested in Prematics Inc., a start-up electronic prescribing software vendor. Terms of the investment were not disclosed, but San ...

Nuance to Buy eScription.

Jun 01, 2008 ... Nuance Communications will acquire eScription Inc., a vendor of transcription, dictation and speech recognition systems, for cash and other considerations totaling $400 million. The acquisition is Nuances largest, surpassing its $357 million buy of Dictaphone in 2006. The deal ...

MedAssets to Acquire Accuro.

Jun 01, 2008 ... MedAssets Inc., a vendor of revenue cycle management software and operator of a group purchasing organization, will acquire Accuro Healthcare Solutions Inc., which sells complementary software. Under a definitive agreement, Atlanta-based MedAssets will pay $207 million in cash ...

FDA Head: We're Boosting I.T.

Jun 01, 2008 ... Updating the Food and Drug Administrations information systems is one of the top priorities of the agency, FDA Commissioner Andrew von Eschenbach, M.D., recently told Congress. He spoke April 22 before the House Energy and Commerce subcommittee on oversight and investigations, which is ...

Leapfrog Group Revises Quality Survey.

Jun 01, 2008 ... The Washington-based Leapfrog Group has revised the tools and questions it plans to use in its 2008 annual safety and quality survey. The 2008 survey includes a computerized physician order entry evaluation tool designed to enable hospitals to determine how well their software alerts users ...

Study: Hospitals Need More I.T. Staff.

Jun 01, 2008 ... U.S hospitals will need nearly 41,000 additional I.T. professionals38% more than nowas they move to higher levels of I.T. adoption, according to a new study. The study from the Oregon Health and Science University was presented in April at a Capitol Hill meeting of the Steering Committee ...

Kaiser Completes EHR Rollout.

Jun 01, 2008 ... Oakland, Calif.-based Kaiser Permanente has completed the implementation of an outpatient electronic health records system for its 8.7 million members. Kaiser began the HealthConnect initiative in 2004 to integrate electronic records across all of its regions. Now its 13,000 physicians ...

FCC Decision Aids Telehealth.

Jun 01, 2008 ... The Federal Communications Commission has extended for three years the eligibility of certain rural health care provider organizations to receive subsidized funding of their telehealth/telemedicine initiatives under the federal telecommunications universal service program. The FCC in March ...

CMS Expands Quality Initiative.

Jun 01, 2008 ... The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has expanded its 2008 Physician Quality Reporting Initiative to make it easier for health care organizations to participate. The program, which began in 2007, establishes a financial incentive for physicians and other health care ...

Guidelines to Aid Transition of Care.

Jun 01, 2008 ... A coalition of industry stakeholders working to smooth the transition of patient care among provider organizations has developed consensus guidelines. The National Transitions of Care Coalition will make the guidelines available online at www.ntocc.org. Specific tools in the guidelines ...

Effort to Promote Open Source Apps.

Jun 01, 2008 ... Organizations in Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom and the United States have formed a new consortium to promote the use of open source software in health care. The initiative, called Open Health Tools Inc., is based on the model of the Eclipse Foundation, which is an open source ...

Site Lists Care Delivery Innovations.

Jun 01, 2008 ... The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality has launched a Web site that explains more than 100 innovations in the delivery of health care services. The site, called the Health Care Innovations Exchange, also lists innovations that failed. The agency believes the site can be a resource ...

Nursing Home Online Reports Expanded.

Jun 01, 2008 ... The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services now will include on its Nursing Home Compare Web site whether facilities have been on its Special Focus Facility list. The agency last fall began the SFF initiative by publishing a list of Medicare and Medicaid participating nursing ...