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December 1, 2007
Cover Story
Mobile Tech: One App at a Time
Executives at Columbia, Md.-based Howard County General Hospital used a variety of criteria to select a wireless bedside specimen collection system last year.
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A New Application for Biometrics
Carolinas HealthCare System, with 19 hospitals and 150 clinics, is a sprawling enterprise that needed to improve its processes for quickly and positively identifying patients, and linking them to the correct electronic health record.
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New Standardization Effort Targets Test Results
As communities implement regional health information organizations, they need to make sure that all physicians have access to standard laboratory and diagnostic imaging results. That's because a lack of uniform data could cause serious problems. For example, decision support systems might not send doctors alerts about abnormal test results if the results are sent in multiple formats.
Group Practices
Getting Paid What You Deserve
Some group practices are finding that with a little extra effort, and the help of specialized software, they can get paid a lot more by insurers. Just ask Bend (Ore.) Memorial Clinic. The 80-physician, three-site practice is recouping an average of more than $50,000 in increased reimbursements each month since adopting a new strategy.
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Using Claims Data to Make a Change
Health Care Service Corp. believes the information contained in claims is powerful. The payer, which runs the Blue Cross/Blue Shield plans in Illinois, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas, is using claims data to provide medical history summaries to patients and their physicians.
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Electronic Health Records: Maybe a Matter of Life and Death
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Vendor Powers Up Following IPO
Flush from a $130 million initial public offering, from which it received $90 million, athenahealth Inc. has retired $30 million in debt and has the rest in the bank.
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Formal ROI Analysis Is Rare
When El Centro (Calif.) Regional Medical Center contemplated investing in an emergency department information system, the hospital's chief nursing officer and other executives demanded a precise quantification of the potential return on investment.
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