Decision Support

Clinical decision support encompasses a variety of electronic tools at the point of care to facilitate decision-making on the part of clinicians. These include electronic order sets, patient alerts, and evidence-based medicine protocols. Stories here encompass the design, creation and implementation of clinical decision support tools as well as the benefits and pitfalls of using them.

5 Principles to Simplify Lean BI

May 18

These five considerations can get you started on the path toward more efficient and pointed business intelligence.

Group Practices

Hospitals

Payers

200 Million Rows of Data and Counting

Gary Baldwin | May 13

At the University of Utah Hospitals and Clinics, the former cost-modeling effort was a bit of a crapshoot when it came to accuracy.

Consumer Health

Revenue Cycle Management

Revenue Cycle & Payments

Nurse Carts Becoming More Sophisticated in Capabilities and Use

Elizabeth Gardner | May 13

Claude Parnell wants to know why it is that people can track a $5 pair of socks at every stopping point between Amazon.com and their house, but most hospitals can't track medications between the pharmacy department and the bedside -even those that cost $10,000 or more per dose.

Mobile Technology

Medication Management

Group Practices

Hospitals

EHR

Michigan HIE Links EMS, Fire Departments to Hospitals

Joseph Goedert | May 09

Michigan Health Connect, a large regional health information exchange, is connecting fire departments and emergency medical services to its network that links 67 hospitals including eight delivery systems, and ancillary providers across the lower peninsula of the state.

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Group Practices

Health Info Exchange

Hospitals

Payers

Vendor News

HIT Vendor News Round-up

Gary Baldwin | May 07

Meaningful use certifications, mobile job searches, a new telemedicine product and a new name for an established firm are among recent announcements from health information technology vendors:

EHR

Group Practices

Hospitals

Policy & Regulation

Vendor News

Stimulus

Mobile Technology

Practice Management

How the 'Million Hearts' Program Improves Cardio Care

Joseph Goedert | May 02

A free Web seminar on May 7 will feature two provider organizations discussing how they are using health information technology under the federally sponsored Million Hearts program to help reduce patients’ blood pressure and cholesterol levels.

Chronic Care

Disease Management

EHR

Group Practices

Health Info Exchange

Hospitals

Policy & Regulation

Editor's Note: Analyzing the Real World

Greg Gillespie | May 01

A recent report by research firm IDC Health Insights tagged analytics as the No. 1 technology priority for organizations engaging in accountable care.

Data Repositories

EHR

Group Practices

Hospitals

Payers

Revenue Cycle & Payments

Revenue Cycle Management

Consumer Health

Chronic Care

He Wrote the Book

Elizabeth Gardner | May 01

If you want to explain to people in other industries exactly what you do and why it's so interesting and challenging, Phil Fasano has written a book for you to give them.

EHR

Hardware

Group Practices

Health Info Exchange

Consumer Health

Chronic Care

Disease Management

WOW! Or is it MOW?

Elizabeth Gardner | May 01

Carts evolve from workstations on wheels to medication delivery on wheels.

Medication Management

Hospitals

EHR

Group Practices

Mobile Technology

HHS/OCR Content Explains HIPAA Nuances for Consumers, Providers

Joseph Goedert | Apr 30

The HHS Office for Civil Rights has put together a package of new and existing content to help consumers and providers better understand the HIPAA privacy and security rules. The office enforces the rules.

Consumer Health

Data Security

EHR

Health Info Exchange

Group Practices

Hospitals

Policy & Regulation

Stimulus

Payers

Health I.T. Keeps NY Islanders On the Ice

Apr 29

How the Isles’ medical team uses PACS/RIS and other health information technologies to take care of John Tavares, Matt Moulson, Brad Boyles and the rest of NHL playoff-bound team.

Hospitals

Medical Imaging

New Health I.T. Safety Committee Holds First Meeting

Joseph Goedert | Apr 29

A recently formed workgroup of the HIT Policy Committee to identify ways to improve the safety of health information technology held its introductory meeting on April 29. Among its charges, the group will compile a report on strategies and recommendations for a risk-based regulatory framework for health I.T., including medical mobile applications.

EHR

Data Security

Group Practices

Hospitals

Health Info Exchange

Payers

Medication Management

Mobile Technology

Policy & Regulation

New Elsevier Content Covers Evidence-based Medicine

Joseph Goedert | Apr 26

Medical information content vendor Elsevier has published the first in a series of issue briefs examining the benefits and challenges of adopting evidence-based medicine.

Hospitals

Group Practices

Policy & Regulation

Consumer Health

Chronic Care

NFL Drafts eClinicalWorks to Tackle On-Field Injuries

Apr 24

The NFL draft is getting underway, and the league has made a draft choice of its own: It has called on eClinicalWorks to create a mobile electronic health record that will be used by team caregivers to provide real-time access to player videos and information on how to diagnose and treat sports injuries.

EHR

Health Info Exchange

Hospitals

Medical Imaging

Mobile Technology

Web Technology

Wireless/Mobile

CMS to Use Data to Find the Medically Vulnerable in an Emergency

Joseph Goedert | Apr 22

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is adding a new routine for use of health information to eight “systems of records” or databases, to ease in identifying vulnerable individuals who may need health assistance during an emergency, such as a disaster.

Consumer Health

Disease Management

Chronic Care

Group Practices

Hospitals

Health Info Exchange

Payers

Policy & Regulation