EDIS

Emergency Department Information Systems (EDIS) are electronic health record systems designed specifically to manage data and workflow in support of Emergency Department patient care and operations. A 2010 KLAS report highlights a trend towards enterprise EDIS that offer superior integration with existing EHR systems rather than stand alone, best-of-breed solutions. EDIS will play a key role in any hospital's ability to meet Meaningful Use Stage 1 Criteria.

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Thousands of urgent care centers are looking for an EMR to adapt to increasing patient volume, and providers are finding success with three different types of EMRs, according to a new report from research firm KLAS.
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Mobile triage promises to boost ER care for veterans
January 30, 2012 | Bernie Monegain
The Veterans Health Administration plans to deploy a mobile triage solution for the emergency room. The idea for the touch-screen triage tablet came from a VA Employee Innovation Competition, where Orlando, Fla.-based DSHI Systems emerged as one of the winners.
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Epic tops 2011 Best in KLAS Awards
December 16, 2011 | Mike Miliard
KLAS has unveiled its annual "Best in KLAS Awards" for software and professional services in 2011, ranking the best-performing healthcare IT vendors in more than 100 market segments based on ratings from over 18,000 interviews with healthcare providers.
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Axial Exchange tops for patient transfer technology
December 15, 2011 | Mike Miliard
Axial Exchange, which develops interoperability technologies based on an open-infrastructure platform, has won the "Ensuring Safe Transitions from Hospital to Home" initiative, sponsored by Health 2.0 and the Department of Health and Human Services' Partnership for Patients Initiative.
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Booz Allen identifies 9 ways IT is transforming healthcare
November 16, 2011 | Bernie Monegain
As healthcare moves into a new era of efficiency, effectiveness and improved patient outcomes through health information technology, consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton has identified the top nine ways health IT is transforming healthcare. Among the changes with the greatest impact are reduced medical errors and faster emergency care.
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Sharing EHR data results in $2M in savings across Memphis EDs
November 8, 2011 | Bernie Monegain
Sharing electronic health information across every major emergency department in the Memphis, Tenn., area resulted in reduced hospital admissions, reduced radiology tests and an annual cost savings of nearly $2 million, according to a recent study conducted by Vanderbilt University Medical Center.
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Siemens turns focus to small community hospitals
October 31, 2011 | Mike Miliard
Siemens Healthcare announced Monday a new commitment to delivering its Soarian technology to small community and rural hospitals, helping them improve outcomes and position themselves to achieve meaningful use.
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CodeHeart speeds emergency care at Washington hospital
October 19, 2011 | Bernie Monegain
Washington Hospital Center and AT&T have launched CodeHeart, an app for doctors that provides a real-time video and audio stream that can be used to remotely examine patients in emergencies.
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Versus, Salamander introduce patient tracking for mass casualty disasters
August 5, 2011 | Eric Wicklund
Versus Technology and Salamander Technologies have combined their software platforms to help hospitals and responders in a mass casualty disaster track patients from the field to the hospital.
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'Most Wired' hospitals for 2011 named
July 11, 2011 | Molly Merrill
The nation's "Most Wired" hospitals are making progress towards greater health information technology adoption, especially in terms of computerized physician order entry, according to Hospitals & Health Networks' 2011 Most Wired Survey results.
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Georgia safety-net group ready to link providers to HIE system
March 15, 2011 | Patty Enrado
The Chatham County Safety Net Planning Council (CCSNPC) has successfully linked one of its hospital emergency departments with one of its federally qualified health centers through its health information exchange system.
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Vendor Notebook: Certification for wireless health devices
February 11, 2011 | Mike Miliard
Global Certification Forum (GCF) and Continua Health Alliance are co-operating to develop an effective certification process for wirelessly-connected personal health devices.
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Clinical System Adoption -- Training for Success
May 1, 2012 | White Papers
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From Data to Decisions: Best Practices in Analytics for Payers
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All I want for Christmas is ARRA answers
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It's December and I am excited. Sure, I am excited for the holidays, but I may be more excited to see the official ARRA "meaningful use" guidelines. The HIT Policy Committee's draft is simply not detailed enough to use to develop a good IT strategy.
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Wanted: Quickstart guide for personal health platform
October 20, 2009 | John Moore
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IT staffing issues
July 14, 2009 | Neil Versel
The newly published July issue of Hospitals & Health Networks includes a story I wrote about the worsening staffing crunch in health IT.
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Information Technology and the H1N1 Virus
May 4, 2009 | John Halamka
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Point to Point Interoperability and Persistent Document Exchange
April 28, 2009 | John Halamka
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Scratching the Surface
April 6, 2009 | Jack Beaudoin
For readers lucky enough to be at HIMSS, (OK, given the snow, maybe they aren't lucky), take some time to stop by the Microsoft booth and check out what developers are doing with the behemoth's "Surface" technology. I sat for three demos, and was impressed with all of them.
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Auditing medication reconciliation
January 12, 2009 | John Halamka
I was recently asked about BIDMC's adherence to medication reconciliation, a Joint Commission requirement and a pay for performance goal for us. We have 3 major medication reconciliation workflows...
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