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Midwest academic medical center streamlines patient transport with IVR technology.
For healthcare providers, capacity management means more than just managing patients in beds; it can also mean managing patients in transit. For large healthcare organizations with substantial campuses and multiple buildings, the efficient moving of patients from one site to another is an opportunity to apply information technology to a challenging frontier that, for years, has depended on paper documentation at worst and live voices on phones at best.
Seven practice managers discuss what works best with their current practice management systems. They also join an “open mike” on how they view federal initiatives and imperatives affecting their futures.
The old adage dictates: The more things change, the more things stay the same. That may no longer apply to physician practices. Here’s what is true in the “staying the same” column.
At Bloomsburg Hospital, CPR Means Capture, Protect and Recover mission critical data.
Roughly three years ago, the board of directors for the Bloomsburg Health System brought in a new management team to streamline the operations of the struggling 72-bed rural Pennsylvania acute care hospital. The team determined that delivering strategic, accurate and timely data was essential to achieving this mission. As a result, providing this vital data became my primary charge as the new CIO at Bloomsburg.
A two-year old e-prescribing program blossoms into a statewide initiative that may be the model for other states wanting to improve patient safety.
With all that has been written about e-prescribing—much of it in the pages of Health Management Technology—it’s hard to understand why it is not ubiquitous in physician practices. The benefits are numerous, the technology isn’t tremendously expensive and everyone in the healthcare equation—patient, physician, pharmacist, health plan and even employer—stands to gain. But sometimes, the planets—and players—just need to align properly.
For one health system, a PACS implementation is but a single step in a journey toward improved efficiency and patient care.
Doctors and nurses are demanding customers—and for good reason, as lives are at stake on a daily basis. As a result, healthcare IT implementations often face more than purely technical challenges. Even if a solution is technically perfect, physician adoption can prove to be a fatal obstacle if care providers do not see the value in evolving established routines and procedures to incorporate technology-based solutions. The ability to overcome end-user resistance through better process understanding, smart planning and stakeholder engagement can mean the difference between a healthcare IT implementation’s success or its ultimate failure.
Aetna covers online doctor-patient communication for insured members in Florida and California.
Has anyone on this planet not been frustrated by the typical call-routing system used by his physician’s office? Press “one” for this, press “two” for that, stay on the line to speak with an operator.
Louisiana-based solo practitioner uses information technology to make a difference in his medical practice.
Twenty years ago, Neil Notaroberto was an accomplished and well-paid computer programmer. He liked his work and he enjoyed information technology, but sitting in an office all day was, at best, not his proverbial cup of tea.
The EHR initiative is changing the face of disaster and the nature of prevention planning.
On April 27, 2004, the age of the electronic health records (EHR) in the United States took a major step forward. President Bush called for the creation, at the federal level, of a National Coordinator of Healthcare Information Technology within the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). Today, HHS has appointed the Healthcare Information Technology Standards Panel (HITSP) to coordinate the development of standards, and has awarded contracts to four companies to develop prototypes of a national health information network. The goal for these competing contracts is to see if by using standards-based architectures, information can be effectively shared across what, in essence, will be competing commercial solutions.
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