LAS VEGAS—The Stage 2 meaningful use proposed rule includes a new plan for dynamic EHRs, Steven Posnack, MHS, director, federal policy division, Office of the National Coordinator of Health IT, said during a presentation at the 2012 Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) conference.
LAS VEGAS—“By next year, I predict that the majority of care delivered in this country will be done on EHRs, not paper,” said Farzad Mostashari, MD, national coordinator for health IT, during his keynote address at the 2012 Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) conference on Feb. 23.
LAS VEGAS—To achieve the overarching concept of “system-ness or enterprise-ness,” converging the IT and the clinical engineering departments could help to eliminate latency or downtime with medical devices that now are integrated into the EMR and the greater network, according to Vi Shaffer, research vice president at Gartner, who took part in a conversation about this convergence Feb. 20 at the 2012 Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) conference.
LAS VEGAS—Physicians’ most significant challenges include processing information and bringing those data to the point of care, Nick van Terheyden, MD, CMIO, Nuance Communications, said during a Feb. 22 session at the annual meeting of the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS). van Terheyden outlined how IBM Watson’s Deep Question and Answer technology might assist with the process and improve healthcare delivery.
LAS VEGAS—Patients want rapid access to laboratory results online, but they prefer providers to view results prior to them, and many, but not all, want providers, rather than a portal, to communicate radiology and pathology results, according to a survey conducted at Mayo Clinic, Florida and presented during an e-session at the annual meeting of the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS).
LAS VEGAS—“Here we come, interoperability and exchange,” said Farzad Mostashari, MD, national coordinator for health IT, at the annual 2012 Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) conference, when he subsequently announced the proposed rule for meaningful use Stage 2, which will be published in
Federal Register on Feb. 23, and a delay in the reporting requirements for Stage 1.
LAS VEGAS—Providers should consider a physician alignment model via health IT instead of an acquisition model, but better methods are needed to improve patient safety and maximize reimbursements, according to a Feb. 22 presentation at the 2012 Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) conference. Regardless, a one-size fits-all strategy is no longer reasonable, the presenter suggested.
LAS VEGAS—For the first time in more than a decade, staffing shortages overtook concerns over lack of adequate financial support as the No. 1 barrier to implementing IT in this year’s 23rd annual Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) leadership survey. The results, released Feb. 21 at HIMSS12, include the input of 302 healthcare IT professionals who represent more than 600 U.S. hospitals.
LAS VEGAS—The latest report from the Institute of Medicine (IOM) is the 2011, health IT version of the 1999 IOM medical errors report called "To Err Is Human," said David Classen, MD, associate professor of medicine at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City and CMIO of Pascal Metrics in Washington, D.C. Classen discussed the report, "Health IT and Patient Safety: Building Safer Systems for Better Care," during a presentation at the 2012 Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) conference.
LAS VEGAS—One nugget gleaned from the 22nd annual Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) leadership survey data released is that the number of CMIOs is increasing—with respondents reporting a 6 percent year-over-year increase from 2011. The survey, presented at HIMSS12, included feedback from 302 health IT professionals who represent more than 600 hospitals in the U.S.
LAS VEGAS—Cleveland Clinic is building an enterprise imaging repository that allows physicians to visualize everything that happens to the patient, including radiology images, tissue pathology, digital photos and more, according to Louis M. Lannum, director of enterprise imaging at Cleveland Clinic, who detailed the organization’s progress toward an enterprise repository during a Feb. 21 session at the annual meeting of the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS).
LAS VEGAS—Marketing is not a dirty word, Steven R. Bennett, MA, vice president at Kirby Partners in Heathrow, Fla., said during “Marketing the Healthcare IT Project”; a Feb. 21 session at the 2012 Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) annual conference.
LAS VEGAS—Image-enabled personal health records (PHRs), the cornerstone of an IHE-based image sharing network, have leveraged the cross-enterprise document sharing (XDS) profile to engage consumers, David S. Mendelson, MD, chief of clinical informatics at Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York City, said during a Feb. 22 session at the 2012 Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) conference. The PHR model mimics (and could augment) the CD-based image exchange model.
LAS VEGAS—Amidst the evolving timeline for a transition to ICD-10, the prospect of postponement is a plus, Robert S. Gold, MD, CEO of DCBA in Atlanta, said during a Feb. 20 session focused on documentation improvement at the 2012 Healthcare Information Management and Systems Society (HIMSS) annual conference.
LAS VEGAS—Speaking on "The Evolution from Transaction-Oriented to Intelligence-Oriented EHRs," John P. Glaser, PhD, CEO of Siemens Health Services business unit, said “we are entering an era of profound change,” during his opening keynote at the Physician IT Symposium on Feb. 20, at the 2012 Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) conference.
The increasing utilization of EHRs and health information exchange (HIE) that has been spurred by an unprecedented level of government funding for health IT could represent an untapped market for both job creation and market savings, according to the eHealth Initiative (eHI).
Although the requirements for Stage 2 of meaningful use are not yet final, IT services firm CSC said the direction is clear and healthcare organizations should focus on providing capabilities for engaging patients, coordinating care and capturing the data for quality reporting.
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas City in Missouri selected InterComponentWare (ICW) to implement an enterprise master patient index.
KLAS published its “2011 Best in KLAS Awards: Software & Professional Services”
report, an annual report ranking the best-performing healthcare IT vendors in more than 100 market segments based on ratings from over 18,000 interviews with healthcare providers.
The FDA has issued a Class I recall of the Draeger Medical's Infinity Acute Care System monitoring tool, which was manufactured between March and September. The product was distributed solely to the Rush University Medical Center in Chicago.
