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Have We Reached a Tipping Point With HIEs?

News related to the exchange of health information and the entities that facilitate that exchange continue to dominate the headlines. And for good reason. Access to a comprehensive view of a patient’s health information across encounters and providers is widely seen as one of the most important contributors to the Obama administration’s goals of improving [...]

April 8th, 2010 HIE, HITECH, Laboratory, Pharmacy 2 Comments »
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PBM versus EHR: Culture Clash?

Individualizing drug therapy based on pharmacogenomics (PGx) is considered by many academic researchers and clinical experts as the “next significant domain of clinical practice” (see the American College of Clinical Pharmacology’s very informative web-based tutorial, “The Future of Medicine: Pharmacogenomics”, http://user.accp1.org/index_new.html).
Drugs that are currently recommended for PGx testing by the FDA include specific medications that [...]

March 11th, 2010 Acute EMR, Clinical Decision Support, General Interest/Housekeeping, Genomics, Laboratory, Pharmacy, Platforms, eMAR No Comments »
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AAFP Wants CMS to Tone Down MU

After proclaiming its long-standing commitment to the implementation and use of health information technology, the American Academy of Family Physicians enumerated a litany of concerns it has with the Meaningful Use NPRM, still out for comment until March 15. “ … we believe that certain aspects in the details of these regulations are unworkable, excessive, [...]

March 8th, 2010 Ambulatory EMR, CPOE, HITECH, Laboratory, Meaningful Use No Comments »
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EMRs, Lab Results & Cost of Complying w/MU

In my last posting, I talked about some of the Meaningful Use observations made at the recent Health Stimulus Exchange Conference in Boston.  Another interesting factoid cited at the conference came from Mickey Tripathi, in his presentation on Regional Extension Centers.  Mr. Tripathi, who is the co-chair of the Information Exchange Workgroup of the HIT Policy Committee, [...]

February 26th, 2010 Acute EMR, Ambulatory EMR, HITECH, Laboratory, Meaningful Use, Standards 4 Comments »
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New Mandatory Genomics Education is Imminent

An HHS committee on Physician and Patient Education is developing new certification requirements for hospital physicians in genomics and pharmacogenomics.  Most hospital physicians, unless your specialty is oncology or obstetrics, are not familiar with anything but diseases inherited as classical Mendelien traits.  These new rules will require basic certification in both classical genetics and the [...]

February 19th, 2010 Acute EMR, Certification, Change Management/Implementation, Clinical Decision Support, Genomics, HITECH, Laboratory, Pharmacy, eMAR 2 Comments »
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Valley Medical Taps Sunquest

Renton, Wash.-based Valley Medical Center has licensed Sunquest Collection Manager to improve labeling of specimens coming to the lab from the ED. The software will be expanded throughout the organization in 2010. Valley Medical Center is the largest nonprofit healthcare provider between Seattle and Tacoma, serving over 400,000 residents. In addition to the hospital, [...]

January 28th, 2010 Emergency Department, Laboratory No Comments »
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Cape Cod Healthcare Selects Soarian

Cape Cod Healthcare has signed a seven-year agreement to implement the Soarian hospital information system from Siemens Healthcare.
The agreement includes Soarian Clinicals, Financials, Device Connect, Scheduling, and Analytics, along with NOVIUS Lab and Radiology, Siemens Pharmacy, Med Administration Check, and more. The majority of the installation is expected to be completed by mid-2011.

January 16th, 2010 Acute Business Analytics (BI), Acute EMR, Acute Financials, Laboratory, Pharmacy, RIS, Scheduling, eMAR No Comments »
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