Recently added articles from Health Management Technology:
All I want for Christmas.(From the Editor)
Oct 01, 2008; ... Dear Santa, I know you're busy preparing for the holidays, but just so it doesn't get lost in the shuffle, here's my 2008 list of healthcare wishes: 1. I want to set doctors appointments the same way I choose my airline seats online from a display of available choices. ...
KLAS study on CIS vendors.(Briefly)(Brief article)
Oct 01, 2008 ... A perception study was released by KLAS that identifies clinical information system (CIS) vendors that are on the radar of prospective buyers. The study is the product of questions posed primarily to healthcare CIOs who were asked about perceived strengths and weaknesses of vendor systems ...
HHS proposes HIPAA update.(Briefly)(Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996)(United States. Department of Health and Human Services)(Brief article)
Oct 01, 2008 ... The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released two proposed rules for adoption to update HIPAA standards. One is a proposal to adopt a new standard for Medicaid subrogation for pharmacy claims, while the other ...
BCBSA: healthcare headed for meltdown.(Briefly)
Oct 01, 2008 ... According to the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association (BCBSA), the timeframes set forth by HHS for switching to the 5010 and ...
Drug company gifts made public.(Healthcare and Government)(Deval Patrick)(Brief article)
Oct 01, 2008 ... In an effort to bring more transparency to the relationships between drug companies and healthcare professionals, Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick signed a new healthcare reform bill into law last August. Known as "An Act to Promote Cost Containment, Transparency and Efficiency in the ...
BCBS of Illinois implements never event policy.(Health Plans and Payers)(Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Illinois)(Brief article)
Oct 01, 2008 ... Claims for "never events"--medical errors that should never happen--will no longer be paid for by Blue Cross Blue Shield of Illinois, signaling progress towards consumer empowerment. Other organizations such as Medicare also will no longer pay if the government finds that a serious error ...
ED patient instructions study.(JAMA Survey)(emergency departments)(Brief article)
Oct 01, 2008 ... Seventy-eight percent of patients don't fully understand care and discharge instructions in the emergency department (ED) according to a recent study published in the Annals of Emergency Medicine, titled, "Patient Comprehension of Emergency Department Care and Instructions: Are Patients ...
Houston hospital loses 1,200 records.(Privacy)(Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act)(Brief article)
Oct 01, 2008 ... Another HIPAA violation has taken place--this time at Harris County Hospital in Houston--where an administrator has lost medical and financial records of 1,200 patients with HIV/AIDS and other conditions contained on a portable flash drive. The employee transferred the records to the ...
Providers' right of conscience.(Healthcare and Government)(United States. Department of Health and Human Services)(Brief article)
Oct 01, 2008 ... HHS is proposing a new regulation that would increase awareness and compliance of the Healthcare Providers' Right of Conscience and its three statutes. The statutes include: 1) the Church Amendments--a response to debates on whether federal funds required recipients to provide abortions or ...
Andy Crowder: Chief Information Officer, Florida Hospital.(The Healthcare CIO)(Interview)
Oct 01, 2008 ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Andy Crowder is senior vice president and chief information officer for Orlando-based Florida Hospital, an 1,800 bed, seven-hospital system. Prior to joining Florida Hospital, he also served in various engineering roles with IBM from 1987-1994. ...
Tools of the trade: three approaches to PM systems and their interoperability within the care continuum reveal bottom line possibilities for all practices.(Physicians Practice Management)
Oct 01, 2008; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] When it comes to building a successful practice in a healthcare world of increasing costs and shrinking margins, technology is just a set of tools waiting for a plan. The workflows of a practice can be greatly impacted by tools such as practice management ...
New brands.(Products and Services)
Sep 01, 2008 ... Studio is a new consumer product line from Dell that it says is designed inside and out for self-expression and creative living. The first Studio products are two distinctively styled laptops, the Dell Studio 15 and Dell Studio 17. Inspired by the Inspiron portfolio, the Studio laptops ...
Srint gets "Touchy" over iPhone.(Products and Services)
Sep 01, 2008 ... Samsung introduces the Instinct for Sprint customers who love the sleek and stylish touchscreen experience offered with Apple's iPhone but not the idea of switching wireless service providers to enjoy it The Instinct is Sprint s first EV-DO Rev A consumer-centric device designed to ...
Brothers in arms.(Thought Leaders)
Sep 01, 2008; ... Scanning recent headlines, it is difficult to ignore the fact that radio-frequency identification (RFID) is receiving substantially more ink than bar coding. Even in healthcare, the consensus seems to be that bar coding is no longer cutting-edge and that RFID is the newer, more advanced ...
Lowered expectations.(From the Editor)(United States. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services)(usage of telemedicine)
Aug 01, 2008; ... It's been a long time since I expected anything other than glossed over, sound bite journalism from the mainstream media, so Good Morning America's sophomoric May 28 "report" titled "Does Telemedicine Work?" really shouldn't distress me, but it does. I have nothing against ABC ...
CCHIT to certify PHRs.(Certification Commission for Health Information Technology)(personal health records)(Brief article)
Aug 01, 2008 ... The Certification Commission for Health Information Technology (CCHIT) has begun development of its 2009 certification program by announcing the formation of a personal health records (PHR) advisory task force. This is in addition to its 10 electronic health record (EHR) Work Groups. The ...
Medication reconciliation inaccuracies.(Brief article)
Aug 01, 2008 ... Medication reconciliation takes center stage again as a new study published in the Annals of Emergency Medicine shows mounting inaccuracies, particularly for trauma patients in rural populations. The study, titled, "Medication Reconciliation in a Rural Trauma Population," studied 234 ...
$15.5 million rural broadband network grant.(Telehealth/Telemedicine)(United States. Federal Communications Commission finances University of New Mexico's Health Sciences Center to build telecommunications network to provide telemedicine services to rural areas)
Aug 01, 2008 ... The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has awarded a $15.5 million grant to the Center for Telehealth and Cybermedicine Research at the University of New Mexico's Health Sciences Center to design, build, operate and evaluate the Southwest Telehealth Access Grid--a broadband network ...
Ohio hospitals expand telemedicine.(Telehealth/Telemedicine)(Ohio Supercomputer Center )(Brief article)
Aug 01, 2008 ... A central Ohio telemedicine project will expand its reach in serving the southeast part of the state as well as parts of Virginia. Last year, Ohio Telemedicine formed a partnership with the Division of Neonatology at Nationwide Children's Hospital in Columbus and the Ohio Supercomputer ...
RFID EMI poses medical equipment hazard.(Hospitals and IDNs)(radio frequency identification devices)(electromagnetic interference )
Aug 01, 2008 ... A recent study published in the June 24 edition of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) shows findings of possible patient risk due to interference between radio frequency identification devices (RFID) and some medical devices. The study was co-authored by two physicians ...