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BEHIND THE CURTAINS

Jun 01, 2008; Hagland, Mark ... Epic's unwavering commitment to its unique values has created an unusual recipe for success. What's behind Epic's gains in the clinical IT sphere? When readers of HCI were asked what vendor they most wanted to read about, respondents picked one company by a wide margin (see graphic on ...

Best of the Blogs

Jun 01, 2008; Anonymous ... The following commentaries are the most read postings from HCI's Blogosphere. To read other postings and leave your comments and questions, visit www.healthcare-informatics.com/blogs, register with a username and password, and blog away. EMRs, Data Mining and HIPAA Posted on: ...

Look What's Happening @ HCI Online

Jun 01, 2008; Anonymous ... www.healthcare-informatics.com WELCOME TO HCI'S NEW DISCUSSION BOARDS Healthcare Informatics' new Discussion Boards are interactive online forums where readers can ask for help, learn best practices, and discover career-enhancing opportunities. Simply register once (requires ...

All HIS, All the Time

Jun 01, 2008; Ciotti, Vince; Alcaro, Bob ... The top 12 HIS vendors constitute the core of the healthcare IT vendor universe. Here are the major players in the "Total HIS" market segment; that is, vendors which automate most major departments in hospitals for administrative, clinical and financial systems. Of the entire HCI 100 ...

NAVIGATING THE DOWNTURN

Jun 01, 2008; Anonymous ... Economic tough times often translate into more bad debt and charity care for hospitals. Though some may debate the label to be placed on the current economic downturn, no one questions the fact that the country is certainly in the midst of one. And while the crisis was born of defaulting ...

Consulting Revenue

Jun 01, 2008; Ciotti, Vince; Alcaro, Bob ... Many installations only become reality when CIOs call on a little help from their friends. Some will decry this fact, others will laud it, but HIT consulting has grown to nearly $5 billion last year, 23 percent of the HIT market. In truth, it is becoming hard to separate HIT vendors from ...

Follow that Infection

Jun 01, 2008; Huvane, Kate ... CIOs are finding that asset tracking technologies can help keep tabs on some nasty bacteria. The use of real-time location systems (RTLS) has been shown to generate significant benefits in the hospital setting in terms of time and cost savings. The technology enables staff members to ...

Capture That Charge

Jun 01, 2008; Lawrence, Daphne ... The future of successful revenue cycle management is the integration of clinical and financial systems. Most hospitals using IT for revenue cycle management (RCM) have seen improvements in their cash flow. But how well are they integrating with the EMR? "The clinical information ...

LEAN AND MEAN

Jun 01, 2008; Albright, Brian ... In addition to strengthening the bottom line, process improvement methodologies are improving patient care. Improving care while effectively managing costs is one of the central challenges faced by the modern healthcare industry. Over the past few decades, hospitals have slowly begun to ...

THE HCI 100

Jun 01, 2008; Guerra, Anthony ... Significant changes to the process and product ensure this year's list of the top 100 HIT vendors by revenue is the most valuable ever. It became apparent after last year's 100 was released that our product needed an upgrade. Considering some big players were missing, and others were ...

Interfaces are for Rookies

Jun 01, 2008; Hagland, Mark ... Moving to a second generation PACS or RIS is a great opportunity to achieve true integration. This is the first installment of a three-part series that will examine the major strategic trends in the imaging/PACS space. This story examines the biggest challenges and opportunities involved ...

TO BUY OR TO BUILD?

Jun 01, 2008; Rogoski, Richard ... Hospitals are facing tough choices when planning to expand. Despite the current recession and a meltdown in the credit markets, hospitals are continuing to expand. In fact, although overall commercial construction has been slowing, healthcare construction remains relatively robust ...

Missing Suspects & Market Segments

Jun 01, 2008; Ciotti, Vince; Alcaro, Bob ... The most important change to this year's HCI 100 is the addition of estimates for the "missing suspects." Siemens has not separated out its HIT revenue since its acquisition of Shared Medical Systems (SMS) in 2000. SMS had been the number one HIS vendor for many years during the '80s and ...

Gone Shopping

Jun 01, 2008; Rooks, Ben ... If you think that home foreclosures have nothing to do with healthcare IT M&A, think again. Looking at the level of mergers and acquisitions activity since last year's M&A article, the pace of consolidation appears to have taken a slight breather compared to the rate of the last ...

Closing the Loop

Jun 01, 2008; Lawrence, Daphne ... CIOs are finding that CPOE is only one (imperfect) tool in the fight against medical errors. In this three part series on medication administration, HCI looks at the information exchange points in the process where errors are most likely to be made. In our first installment below, we ...

Banking on Patient Control

Jun 01, 2008; Raths, David ... Advocates of health record banks are moving the industry away from distributed HIE models. Most health information exchange efforts employ a distributed model, with data passed between providers' systems. But a few regions are experimenting with a different approach: the creation of ...

Far From Child's Play

Jun 01, 2008; Huvane, Kate ... Hospitals are leveraging wireless technologies to ensure that babies and mothers never lose touch. Like many areas of hospital management, infant security has changed drastically over the years. The measures that are being taken to protect infants from abductions have grown by leaps and ...

Epic Revealed

Jun 01, 2008; Anonymous ... For years, Epic Systems has been the "quiet, stalking giant" of healthcare IT, racking up more and more hospitals, medical groups and health systems as customers while carefully trying to stay out of the limelight. So what's the secret to the success of this quiet company? Read our cover story, ...

ONLINE POLLS

Jun 01, 2008; Anonymous ... A recent Wall Street Journal article (April 4) indicated that many nonprofit hospitals are awash with cash, yet some are not providing the level of charity care expected. Does your hospital give enough to justify tax-exemption? * Yes, through direct charity care. 50% * Yes, but ...

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Jun 01, 2008; Anonymous ... Mr. Guerra, Thank you for asking your readers for their comments on articles in the April 2008 issue of Healthcare Informatics. I am the Chief Information Officer at a 270-bed hospital in western Connecticut. I have been in healthcare for more than 20 years. During that time I ...