EHR

EHRs are used in both inpatient and ambulatory settings to document care and share information across departments. Topics include: vendor selection, system deployment, and workflow analysis. On the inpatient side, best-of-breed versus single source is a perennial debate as CIOs automate the widely diverse departments under their purview, such as the surgical suite, radiology and intensive care. On the ambulatory side, group practices wrestle with physician productivity issues and creating interfaces to outside service partners such as labs.

Sky's the Limit on Complexity

Greg Gillespie | Jun 01

This month's features are about a variety of topics-HIEs/ACOs, claims adjudication, radiology analytics, EHRs-that share one common denominator: they're all about technologies, processes and transactions that are immensely complex.

Hospitals

Group Practices

Payers

Electronic Data Interchange

Health Info Exchange

Medical Imaging

A Custom Job?

Greg Gillespie | Jun 01

I.T. departments hate customizing EHRs; physicians love it. But market forces and better designs are reducing the amount of customization.

Group Practices

Hospitals

X-Ray Vision

Elizabeth Gardner | Jun 01

Analytic tools are beginning to transform medical imaging.

Group Practices

Hospitals

Medical Imaging

Are HIEs Ready for Accountable Care?

Joseph Goedert | May 31

The Obama Administration shepherded through the HITECH Act in 2009 to accelerate adoption of information technology to support the health care reform initiative, which heavily relies on I.T. and health information exchange to manage a new health system centered on the patient, value and outcomes.

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Group Practices

Health Info Exchange

Payers

Hospitals

Policy & Regulation

Revenue Cycle & Payments

Large Hospital Breach Caused by Inside Inappropriate Access

Joseph Goedert | May 31

Bon Secours Mary Immaculate Hospital in Suffolk, Va., is notifying about 5,000 patients after discovering a significant amount of inappropriate access to patients’ electronic health records from two employees inside the facility.

Consumer Health

Data Security

Hospitals

Policy & Regulation

Stimulus

HIT Vendor News Round-up: MedeAnalytics, Billian’s and Greenway

Joseph Goedert | May 30

Recent health information technology vendor announcements cover a new leader for one analytics firm and a new product for another, and a new mobile app for physicians:

Group Practices

Hospitals

Mobile Technology

Vendor News

Feds Move Forward on HIT Regulatory Framework, Seek Input

Joseph Goedert | May 29

The federal government has scheduled a public meeting and issued a request for information as it works to develop a risk-based regulatory framework for health information technology.

Group Practices

Policy & Regulation

Hospitals

Iatric Systems Buys Accent on Integration

Joseph Goedert | May 29

Ancillary electronic health records software and integration vendor Iatric Systems has acquired medical device integrator Accent on Integration for an undisclosed sum.

Vendor News

Systems Integration

Health Info Exchange

Group Practices

Hospitals

Hospital Web Site Upgrade Causes Breach

Joseph Goedert | May 29

A mistake made while updating the Web site of Sonoma Valley Hospital in California has resulted in a notification to 1,350 surgery patients of a breach of their protected health information.

Consumer Health

Data Security

Hospitals

Policy & Regulation

Stimulus

Cerner to Split Stock to Make it More Affordable

Joseph Goedert | May 29

With its stock price approaching $100 per share, Cerner Corp. will conduct a 2-for-1 split of shares on June 28, with each shareholder of record on June 17 receiving twice as many shares at half the price.

Group Practices

Hospitals

Vendor News

New Guidelines for Direct Project Messaging Specs

Joseph Goedert | May 28

The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology has issued guidelines for implementing Direct Project specifications for secure messaging.

Payers

Hospitals

Group Practices

Health Info Exchange

Policy & Regulation

Deadline Is Friday for ‘Health I.T. Young Blood’ Nominations

Gary Baldwin | May 28

Entries are now being accepted for the second annual “Health I.T. Young Bloods” contest sponsored by Health Data Management. Submissions are due by noon central, Friday, May 31, 2012.

Group Practices

Hospitals

New Interoperability Training Tools Focus on Stage 2 Criteria

Joseph Goedert | May 24

The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology has launched a suite of electronic health records interoperability training tools.

Health Info Exchange

Group Practices

Hospitals

Policy & Regulation

Stimulus

Intermountain Tracking Patients’ Cumulative Radiation Exposure

Joseph Goedert | May 24

Intermountain Healthcare in Salt Lake City now enables patients and physicians to access radiation histories and the cumulative radiation a patient has received.

Medical Imaging

Group Practices

Hospitals

Consumer Health

Disease Management