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Quality and Safety

Quality and safety concerns both routine clinical and managerial practices and research focusing on patient safety and quality of care. Specific topic areas include drug information programs, safe administration of patient medication, overuse or misuse of procedures that are not medically necessary, underuse of beneficial services and mistakes leading to patient injury - including the 28 so-called Never Events outlined by the National Quality Forum in 2001 and revised in 2006.

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HHS aims to help public gauge how healthcare is doing
May 16, 2012 | Mary Mosquera
The Department of Health and Human Services has made available an online tool that makes it easy for the public to monitor and measure how the nation's healthcare system is performing.
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5 novel uses for RTLS technology
May 15, 2012 | Michelle McNickle
Recent reports have touted the benefits that real-time locating system (RTLS) technology can have for a company's bottom line. An even better ROI can be had with a little creativity, says Merrie Wallace, executive vice president of product solutions at Awarepoint.
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Web First: Q&A with Allscripts CEO Glen Tullman
May 15, 2012 | Bernie Monegain
Allscripts had a great fall. CEO Glen Tullman says he and his team will put the EHR company together again -- better and stronger. He talks about what went wrong, the difficulties of integration, plans for recovery and Allscripts' future in the market.
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$20B in incentives go to waste each year, says study
May 14, 2012 | Stephanie Bouchard
More than 75 percent of healthcare incentives are so small or poorly publicized that providers aren't even aware of them, according to a new study that suggests more than $20 billion in incentives may be wasted annually.
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ONC taps public for help on nationwide exchange
May 14, 2012 | Mary Mosquera
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology is calling for public comment on proposals for rules of the road to govern the nationwide health information network (NwHIN).
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Maine practice celebrates its meaningful use status
May 11, 2012 | Bernie Monegain
Coastal Women's Healthcare, a seven-physician practice located in a town of nearly 20,000 residents along the Southern Maine coast, is among a group of elite meaningful users of electronic health records nationwide.
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Research shows telemonitoring helps control blood pressure
May 10, 2012 | Bernie Monegain
Patients receiving telemonitoring along with high blood pressure management support from a pharmacist were more likely to lower their blood pressure than those without the support, according to research presented at the American Heart Association's Quality of Care and Outcomes Research Scientific Sessions 2012.
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Chilmark report sees HIEs moving into 'post-EHR era'
May 10, 2012 | Mike Miliard
While some $560 million in federal health information exchange funding may soon run dry, changing reimbursement models mean market-driven growth will continue, says a new report on HIEs from Chilmark Research.
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CMS lists names of EHR incentive recipients
May 10, 2012 | Mary Mosquera
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has published the names, business phone numbers, and business addresses of Medicare providers that have demonstrated meaningful use of an electronic health record and received an incentive payment as of March 2012.
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CHIME supports year delay on ICD-10 as 'middle ground'
May 9, 2012 | Bernie Monegain
The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) on Wednesday submitted comments on ICD-10 proposed rulemaking to Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius. CHIME urged HHS to remain committed to ICD-10, while calling the one-year delay an appropriate "middle ground" for all stakeholders.
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AHIMA repeats opposition to ICD-10 delay
May 9, 2012 | Bernie Monegain
AHIMA has said it before, and it is saying it again. Delaying ICD-10 deadlines is not a good idea. However in a comment letter filed Wednesday with the Department of Health and Human Services, the organization said it would continue to work with HHS to ensure the delay would be as short as possible.
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New ONC dashboard tracks nationwide HITECH progress
May 9, 2012 | Mike Miliard
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) has launched its new Health IT Dashboard, offering an interactive trove of data related to grants programs, regional extension centers and other measures of health IT adoption.
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Case Study: Sentara Healthcare Completes an Award-Winning EHR with Enterprise Content Management
April 29, 2011 | On Demand Webinars
Providers today recognize that even the most powerful EMRs can't handle the content that exists outside of the patient record. Unstructured, ancillary documents and content related to patient care – paper, forms, faxes, graphics, photos and other clinical images – is often disconnected from electronic records. For Sentara Healthcare, access to accurate, timely and complete patient information is instrumental to increasing quality and service of care, and <a href="/directory/enterprise-content-management" target="_blank" class="directory-item-link">enterprise content management</a> (ECM) is a vital part of that enterprise <a href="/directory/electronic-health-record-ehr" target="_blank" class="directory-item-link">EHR</a> strategy.
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May 29th @ 1PM ET--St. Joseph’s Security and Compliance Success Story: Implementing Identity Management in Healthcare
April 18, 2012 | Upcoming Webinars
Join this complimentary webcast to learn how St. Joseph’s has instituted a very successful identity management program to bolster security, enforce (and prove) compliance and significantly reduce administration costs. Learn how a platform approach to Identity offers not only complete security coverage for healthcare organizations but also provides the agility to seamlessly scale their security and compliance initiatives across their entire infrastructure
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Improving Community Connectivity, Care Coordination and Outcomes
April 16, 2012 | On Demand Webinars
Learn more about what is being accomplished in communities that are coordinating healthcare. Jason Colquitt, director of research services from Greenway Medical Technologies, will share insights on how community connectivity is helping provide clearer analytics, improved clinical and financial outcomes and improving the health and quality of life of individuals and the community at large. Rebecca Little, director of operations at Genesis OB/GYN, Tucson, AZ, will share how her practice directly connects to hospitals in her community to share patient data, and how this connectivity is helping increase care coordination.
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An Organizational Approach to Infection Prevention, Surveillance and Reporting
April 3, 2012 | On Demand Webinars
In the era of accountable care, leaders are under pressure to produce both high-quality and high-value, which demands precise care intervention. Hear from Heath Bell, chief information officer and vice president of Revenue Cycle at KishHealth in Dekalb, Ill., as he discusses how KishHealth is combining clinical surveillance solutions and clinical evidence to measurably improve quality of care and efficiency.
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NewYork-Presbyterian: Using Microsoft Amalga as a Strategic Clinical Data Repository to Transform Care
March 30, 2012 | On Demand Webinars
NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital is one of the premier academic medical centers in the world and among the first customers of Microsoft Amalga. Hear the Director of IT at NYP talk about the organizationís strategic use of Amalga as a clinical data repository that enables the health system to improve processes, performance, and patient care. The webinar will address how NYP uses Amalga to achieve compliance for inpatient and outpatient clinical quality measures, reduce readmissions for congestive heart failure, and reduce venous thromboembolic events. The presentation will also covers how NYP connects Amalga to Microsoft HealthVault to meet meaningful use objectives for patient engagement.
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Disruptive Innovation: The Key to Empowering Patients, Transforming the Healthcare System
March 29, 2012 | White Papers
The United States is undergoing a major transformation of its healthcare delivery system, driven by federal health IT investments and healthcare reforms. This content piece features information from a joint presentation at the HIMSS12 Annual Conference & Exhibition in Las Vegas in February, where Eric Dishman, General Manager of Health Strategy and Solutions at Intel Corporation, and Jason Hwang, MD, executive director of healthcare at the Innosight Institute, presented on the power of “disruptive innovation” to meet the challenges of transforming the U.S. health sector. Download this paper to read examples of how disruption health IT innovation is driving new care models across the globe.
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Beyond the Checkbox: Using Health Information to Continuously Engage Patients and Improve the Patient Experience
March 22, 2012 | White Papers
The U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services announced in February 2012 that nearly 2,000 hospitals received incentive payments under the CMMS’ <a href="/directory/electronic-health-record-ehr" target="_blank" class="directory-item-link">EHR</a> Incentive Programs. In addition, 85 percent of hospitals now report that by 2015 they intend to take advantage of the incentive payments. With the competitive inpatient market moving toward critical mass, many hospitals face the challenge of meeting Stage 1 MU criteria. Forward-thinking hospitals and health systems are approaching patient education beyond checking a box on their way to qualifying for incentive payments. Learn how Ochsner Health System now provides consistent patient education materials based on evidence-based medicine to its clinicians across its seven hospitals and 40 clinics.
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Redefining Value and Success in Healthcare: Charting the Path to the Future
March 13, 2012 | On Demand Webinars
Across the healthcare industry, we are seeing forward-thinking organizations develop new competencies in anticipation of the opportunity that comes with industry-wide transformation. They are positioning themselves for success. And they are defining the future of healthcare. Will your organization be ready? Register to learn more and listen to the session now!
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Clinician Mobility: Leveraging Mobile Devices For Clinical Communications at Penn Medicine
March 5, 2012 | On Demand Webinars
Learn from Associate CIO, John P. Donohue at University of Pennsylvania Health System and Avaya How to Leverage Mobility and Network Readiness Solutions for Your Health System Clinicians. As the delivery of healthcare changes, UPHS is leveraging mobile communications technology to improve clinical communications. Integrating mobile communications with traditional telephony capabilities allows for more agile and responsive communications across the Health System.
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Disrupting Hospital Based Care: The Innovation Race to Establish 21st Century Care Models
March 2, 2012 | On Demand Webinars
Intel and Healthcare IT News invite you to an exclusive executive webcast featuring internationally renowned speakers, Jason Hwang, MD co-founder and Executive Director of Healthcare at Innosight Institute, a non-profit social innovation think tank based in Watertown, Massachusetts and Eric Dishman, Intel Fellow and Global Director of Health Innovation and Policy for Intel Corporation.
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Overcoming The Risks of Bacterial Conditions Found in Computer Keyboards at Healthcare Facilities
March 1, 2012 | White Papers
Computer technology has become a vital component of patient care in hospitals and other healthcare facilities, but has it also introduced new threats to those patients? Research indicates that computer keyboards can act as reservoirs for microorganisms and bacteria that can be cross-transmitted via the hands of healthcare providers. This free white paper examines the risks associated with these bacterial conditions in keyboards and how they can be overcome.
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Providers' Perceptions: Business Intelligence and Analytics in Healthcare
January 19, 2012 | On Demand Webinars
Billian's HealthDATA and Porter Research will present findings of a primary market research study highlighting providers' perceptions of <a href="/directory/business-intelligence-bi" target="_blank" class="directory-item-link">business intelligence</a> and analytics solutions - their needs, challenges and adoption strategies. The study explores technologies being utilized today; as well as providers' requirements for the future that will better enable their organizations to drive strategic initiatives to improve quality of care, contain costs and meet impending and evolving healthcare reform initiatives.
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Personalized Prevention, Part III: Applying the Model to Obesity
April 24, 2012 | Joseph C. Kvedar, MD
In this post, I want to use obesity as an illustration of how personalized prevention might practically work.
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Need to Know: 5 Women in Health IT
February 21, 2012 | Katie Matlack
You want irony? Try this: the Kaiser Family Foundation reports that we women are the ones who make the health care choices for the kids in 8 out of 10 families. Yet women are far and away the minority gender in the world of health IT leaders. While this is by no means the definitive list, I’ve done some research on the women who ARE making their mark in HIT.
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Healthcare technology: A competitive advantage in improving the patient experience
February 1, 2012 | Chad Johnson
With Meaningful Use requirements, connecting to Health Information Exchanges, coordinating data flow in Accountable Care Organizations, updating devices to ICD-10 codes and general interoperability projects, there is a tremendous amount of work going on in Health IT.
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Healthcare 'flubs in Florida'
January 24, 2012 | Tom Sullivan
Last night, the remaining four GOP candidates debated in Tampa, Florida and, as usual, there were a number of topics misrepresented as facts – Mitt Romney’s attacks on the federal health law among those.
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Life-Saving "Facts" Highlight Powerful Role of Technology in Healthcare
January 20, 2012 | Jennifer Dennard
The phrase “Technology Saves Lives” seems pretty straightforward when you first read it. “Well, yes,” you might say. “Technology sure does save lives!” But when you read more than 400 real-life stories about just how technology does that, the phrase takes on a whole new level of importance.
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Now there are five
January 17, 2012 | Tom Sullivan
Jon Huntsman, one of the Republican candidates with a background of instituting new healthcare measures, dropped out of the presidential race Jan. 16.
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Why We Do What We Do in Healthcare IT
January 13, 2012 | Jennifer Dennard
It’s not often that morning radio inspires me to write a blog post, but the latest bit from The Bert Show here in Atlanta surprisingly provided a bit of inspiration this morning.
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Santorum: No one has ever died because they didn't have health insurance
January 6, 2012 | Kelly Mehler
Back in December, GOP presidential candidate Rick Santorum stirred up trouble when he declared that nobody has ever died because they did not have health insurance. How did our healthcare-based social media following respond to Santorum's statement?
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Employee Makes Fun of Patient on Facebook
January 5, 2012 | Christina Thielst
When will our employees learn not to identify patients on Facebook or any other social media site?
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The Standards Work Ahead in 2012
December 20, 2011 | John Halamka
The December HIT Standards Committee included a discussion of the work ahead for the next year based on the priorities we've heard from stakeholders. We'll have 10 in person and 2 telephonic meetings in 2012.
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Real Time Performance Feedback is a Necessity in Today's Hospitals
December 8, 2011 | Jim Rosenblum
In recent months, consumers in various cities across the country have been presented with billboards that advertise their local hospital's emergency room wait times in an effort to attract new patients.
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HIMSS Leaders & Innovators excites C-suite execs 
November 22, 2011 | Mike Miliard
This past week I had the pleasure of traveling, along with MedTech Media Editorial Director Rich Pizzi, to Amelia Island, Fla. for the inaugural HIMSS Leaders & Innovators conference.
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Vitera client first practice to report quality measures for 2011
March 8, 2012 | Industry News Release
Vitera Healthcare Solutions, one of the nation's largest providers of electronic health records (EHRs) and practice management software and services, today announced that Southaven Internal Medicine of Southaven, Mississippi, is the first practice in the United States to successfully submit the 2011 reporting period of Physician Quality Reporting Systems (PQRS) measures.
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Sebelius to visit Houston, discuss innovation
March 8, 2012 | Industry News Release
Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius will visit Houston to discuss how hospitals and health care providers are finding innovative ways to improve patient care.
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University Health System taps Allcripts Community Record
March 8, 2012 | Industry News Release
University Health System, the lead trauma center for South Texas, will use Allscripts Community Record, powered by dbMotion, to share patient data with its facilities and the University of Texas (UT) Health Science Center San Antonio. The Allscripts solution will help provide a single patient record for the many physicians and patients who use both facilities.
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North Shore-LIJ Health System to deploy ProVation® order sets
January 4, 2012 | Industry News Release
Wolters Kluwer Health, a leading global provider of information for healthcare professionals and students, announced today that North Shore-LIJ Health System has selected ProVation® Order Sets, powered by UpToDate® Decision Support, as its electronic order set solution.
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DR Systems issued U.S. patent for monitoring medical image viewing
January 3, 2012 | Industry News Release
DR Systems, the leading independent provider of medical imaging and information systems, announced today that the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has issued to the company a new patent, which relates to tracking portions of medical images that are displayed according to particular display parameters, such as at a particular resolution.
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Lockton report shares tips for improving healthcare employee safety and morale
November 4, 2011 | Industry News Release
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, approximately 3.3 million serious work-related injuries and 4,300 fatalities occurred in U.S. workplaces in 2009, the year for which the most recent data is available. A new report by insurance broker Lockton Companies offers ten tips to help healthcare organizations reduce the likelihood of workplace injuries.
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Houston Healthcare to deploy ProVation® order sets, powered by UpToDate® Decision Support
November 2, 2011 | Industry News Release
Wolters Kluwer Health, a leading global provider of information for healthcare professionals and students, announced today that Houston Healthcare has selected ProVation® Order Sets, powered by UpToDate® Decision Support, as the electronic order set solution at Houston Medical Center and Perry Hospital.
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PerkinElmer introduces NexION® enhanced security software
October 31, 2011 | Prasad Dindigal
PerkinElmer, Inc., a global leader focused on improving the health and safety of people and the environment, today announced the introduction of the new NexION® Enhanced Security™ (ES) Software, to streamline regulatory compliance by pharmaceutical companies. The ES Software platform was developed for users of PerkinElmer’s NexION 300 ICP-MS system.
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BlueCross BlueShield Venture Partners Joins $70 Million Private Investment Round in Essence Group, the Parent of Lumeris Corporation
October 27, 2011 | Industry News Release
Essence Group Holdings Corporation (EGHC) today announced that BlueCross BlueShield Venture Partners, managed by Sandbox Industries, has joined Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Camden Partners in a private investment in Essence.
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Boston Scientific Introduces First iPad App for Physicians to Educate Patients About Cardiovascular Diseases and Treatments
October 27, 2011 | Industry News Release
Boston Scientific Corporation introduces its CardioTeach iPad app, an industry-first, free educational resource to help healthcare professionals better educate patients and caregivers about therapy options related to cardiovascular and peripheral diseases, specifically atrial and ventricular arrhythmias, coronary artery disease, heart failure, heart rhythm disorders and peripheral vascular disease.
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Harris Corporation Awarded $5.3 Million Contract to Integrate New Medical Coding Standards for U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
October 27, 2011 | Industry News Release
he U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has awarded Harris Corporation (NYSE:HRS), an international communications and information technology company, a $5.3 million contract to provide remediation to the VA’s Health Administration Center (HAC) Cache System to address new medical coding standards. This is a two-year contract with three optional tasks.
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OSI Systems awarded contract from Novation for patient monitoring solutions
October 17, 2011 | Industry News Release
OSI Systems, Inc., a vertically-integrated provider of specialized electronic products for critical applications in the Security and Healthcare industries, today announced that its Healthcare division, Spacelabs Healthcare, has been awarded a three-year contract to provide its complete line of patient monitoring solutions to VHA Inc, University HealthSystem Consortium (UHC) and Provista members served by Novation, a leading healthcare Group Purchasing Organization (GPO). VHA Inc., UHC, and their jointly owned subsidiary, Provista, represent approximately 5,500 members, who use the GPO’s contracts to procure nearly $40 billion annually.
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