Health Records
Patients Want Access to Records
As President Barack Obama calls for streamlining healthcare by fully converting to electronic medical records and as Congress prepares to debate issues of patient privacy, one question has largely gone unasked: What do patients want?
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Health Plans
Time Well Spent?
Physicians spend three hours per week — or 43 minutes on average per workday — interacting with health insurance plans, according to research published recently by Health Affairs. The study, conducted by the Medical Group Management Association (MGMA), Weill Cornell Medical College, the University of Toronto and the University of Chicago, found that total staff interaction time systemwide converted to dollars equaled $21 to $31 billion annually, or more than $68,000 per physician per year, on average.
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Decision Support
Adults Using Online Tools
Thirty-seven percent of online adults ages 65 and older who are covered by Medicare report having used online healthcare decision-support tools, compared with 44 percent of online adults younger than age 65, according to a survey by Forrester Research.
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Into the Minds of Readers

By Ken Anderberg,
Publisher/Editorial Director

Most subscribers of Health Management Technology probably do not know who Henry Luce was, but a famous quote of his has been posted on my office walls for literally decades. Luce — the founder of Time, Fortune, Life and Sports Illustrated magazines — said many years ago:

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SLAs Add Accountability

 By James Denny Jr.

While Web-based applications proliferate and replace on-site, server-based software for critical business functions, healthcare organizations routinely secure commitments from vendors regarding application performance and reliability. After all, what good is an application if it is not available when you need it?

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Cover Story
Better Codes, Better Patient Safety Disease classification changes will provide greater specificity, but concerns exist over the transition process.

Patient Safety
Health System Automates Medication Reconciliation
Solution extracts information directly from the clinical system throughout a patient’s stay and at discharge.

Medication Management
MTM Services Standards Improve Patient Safety
Safeguards, systems and services can reduce the total number of medication-related complications.

Health Information Exchange
'Pipe Dream' HIE Proves Challenging
A community hospital network, concerned that each clinic’s needs could not be entirely met, decides on a standard EHR platform and a shared community network.

Customer Relations Management
Analytics Assist Communications
Successful marketing departments develop customer profiles that contain information on how and when their customers wish to receive communications.

Revenue Cycle Management
SaaS Model Improves RCM
Hospitals find a better way to expedite claims, control A/R days and maintain operational cash flow.

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July Products

An Outdoorsy Tablet
The 3.6 lb. J3400 is a rugged and powerful, all-in-one tablet PC computing tool for field professionals that combines Motion View Anywhere technology with a Hydis AFFS+ widescreen display for superior readability in direct sunlight.
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Fast, Accurate Order System
Horizon MedComm-Rx is a versatile order-communication system that allows nurses and pharmacists to communicate medication orders more effectively, enhancing the speed and accuracy of medication or physician orders between the nursing unit and central pharmacy.
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Laser Quality Ink Jet
The Epson WorkForce 600 all-in-one is engineered to provide small offices with features that meet their printing needs and speeds that rival laser printers.
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Keeps Going and Going
The Artromick NX10 Mobile Computing Workstation assists nursing work flow with easy maneuverability for bedside patient monitoring and clinical documentation.
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e-Prescribing Decision Support
ERx presents context-specific integrated clinical-decision support at the point of prescribing based on the best published evidence, and gives doctors visibility into the cost, efficacy and adverse effects of various medication-based therapeutic alternatives.
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Claims Editing Platform
Bloodhound Technologies provides real-time editing and transparency with the ConVergence Point claims-editing platform.
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Improve Audit Management
Audit Tracker Online, a request-management program from MRO, enables hospitals and health systems to manage payer audits and denials from initial medical records request through appeals and payment resolution.
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Enhance Health Plan Administration
QNXT is TriZetto’s rules-driven, user-configurable enterprise application system designed to encompass an “n-tier” environment and service-oriented architecture spanning the chain of healthcare decision making and ensuring that the right people have the right information.
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Digital Radiography
New software for the Carestream Health DR 7500 digital radiography system gives increased user control over image display, better presentation of images across soft copy and hard copy devices, and enhanced image-processing algorithms.
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Portable Records Franchise
eMed-ID is offering a low-cost, home-based franchise concept providing consumers with a personal USB device containing their complete medical history, which is easily shared with emergency responders and other medical professionals.
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Storage and Security
The versatile iPoint mobile carts from Lionville Systems are designed with flexible technology capabilities that support numerous software platforms and hardware options, including thin or thick client, laptop and all-in-one PCs.
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Bill Pay Portal
The HIPAA-compliant eCareview Healthcare Billing Portal enables consumers to make payments and access real-time billing information online, potentially accelerating cash flow, reducing billing and customer service costs, increasing collection of self-pay billing and reducing time to establish automatic payment plans.
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Computer Carts
InfoLogix computer carts can incorporate hand-held computers, tablet PCs, dual-monitor display computers, bar-coding solutions, medication bins and other applications.
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Data Breach Notification Services
The Jurick Group offers a data breach notifications service that incorporates prompt notification of individuals whose data has been breached via postal mail and e-mail, where possible.
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Hardware Products

Sheet-feed Scanner
The new Scanjet 7000 from HP can boost productivity and enhance document workflows with rapid scanning speeds of up to 40 ppm (35 ppm in color).
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Scans Practically Everything
Although Eastman Kodak announced in January its acquisition of this vendor, the new Ngenuity scanner is very innovatively Bowe Bell+Howell.
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Will You Take a Check?
The Canon CR-180II high-speed desktop check transport features duplex scanning speeds of up to 180 checks per minute, a high-capacity 200-document auto feeder, two output pockets, and Infrared Double-Feed Detection.
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Workgroup Laser Printer
The Dell 5330dn prints at up to 50 ppm with 600 x 600 dpi native print resolution for sharp text and detail.
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Paper-handling Ease
Print, copy, scan and fax with the Kodak ESP9. This MFP prints at up to 32 ppm and features an auto-document feeder, built-in duplexer and an intelligent paper tray system.
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Security, Versatility
The Lexmark X782e XL prints at up to 35 ppm (color), with the first page out in as fast as 13 seconds.
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Small, But Impressive
The Fujitsu fi-6140 scanner is among the smallest in its class, but it scans a quick 60 ppm.
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Medical Labels
Brother QL-650TD label printers are flexible enough to handle many laboratory and pharmacy labeling needs such as medication labels, prescription labels, specimen labels, microscope slide labels and others.
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Anywhere Barcode Printing
The SATO MBi Series mobile bar-code printers are lightweight and durable with user selectable print speeds up to 4 inches per second.
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April Products

Data Center Power Solution
APC’s new Modular Three-Phase Power Distribution Unit (PDU) brings right-sized scalability and flexibility down to the rack level and allows electricians, facilities engineers, and data center managers to add and replace circuit breakers, cordsets and branch current monitoring without disruption to other circuits or mission critical applications.
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Referral Management Software
PreFerr is a new software collaboration platform from physician relationship management and electronic referral services provider Visions@Work.
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High-Definition LCD Monitor
The sleek and stylish Dell S2409W 24-inch widescreen flat panel high-definition LCD monitor is designed to optimize viewing of multimedia content with full HD 1920 x 1080 resolution and 16:9 aspect ratio.
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HP Healthcare Enterprise Solutions
Designed to streamline information workflows, enhance security and help reduce costs, HP’s Document Capture for Admissions / Electronic Medical Records and Patient Identification Printing solutions enable healthcare organizations to utilize the latest HP healthcare technology to more easily comply with government mandates, including patient-privacy regulations.
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March Products

Professional LCD Displays
The 40-inch 400PX and 46-inch 460PX from Samsung deliver information and entertainment to patients and visitors in the waiting room or hospital staff members in boardrooms or lunch areas.
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Patient Tracking Solution
ActiveTRACK by HealthWare Systems maintains an electronic waiting list for patient registration and monitors performance benchmarks such as registration area wait time and documentation time by registration area and registrar.
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New Business Series Display
The B243W bdr is a 24-inch widescreen LCD monitor designed and developed by Acer for intensive daily use as a highly reliable and easy-to-read display for professionals who require superior ergonomics, solidity and long-term productivity.
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Patient Records Software Updated
The Practice Partner Patient Records version 9.3 from McKesson, meets the Certification Commission on Healthcare Information Technology’s (CCHIT) 2008 Ambulatory electronic health records (EHR) requirements, and is also certified for child health applications and EHR for office-based use.
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High-Definition LCD Monitor
The sleek and stylish Dell S2409W 24-inch widescreen flat panel high-definition LCD monitor is designed to optimize viewing of multimedia content with full HD 1920 x 1080 resolution and 16:9 aspect ratio.
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Digital Radiography
New software for the Carestream Health DR 7500 digital radiography system supplies increased user control over image display, better presentation of images across soft copy and hard copy devices and enhanced image processing algorithms.
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HP’s Bumper Crop
HP introduced a host of new enterprise printing and imaging devices, supplies and solutions, including eight new imaging and printing solutions, four HP LaserJet printers such as the HP Color LaserJet CM3530 MFP Series (pictured), an HP Scanjet device and several enhancements to the HP Carbon Footprint Calculator.
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Pharmacy-integrated EMR
The EMRge v6.0 from SSIMED enables practices to organize patient clinical data in ways that streamline workflow and make information retrieval easy and efficient.
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