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*Attestation begins, but will it tell us much?
“*If we don’t pay attention to what happens in Stage 1, we could completely debilitate this process in Stage 2″
*”Meaningful Use was written very much for the vended applications”
*Defining success for the Meaningful Use program
*Kaiser, Mayo, Geisinger, Intermountain & Group Health form the Care Connectivity Consortium
*What is the Holy Grail of health information exchange?
*The state of standards
*Cracking the sustainability code on cross-organizational HIE
Before we go too far in assuming that you need an EHR to achieve what Intermountain has, in terms of lowering costs and improving clinical outcomes, it’s worth drilling down a little further. It is Intermountain’s billing, registration, and case mix systems that enable much of what the organization achieves … and virtually every healthcare [...]
Salt Lake City-based Intermountain Healthcare is opening the “Homer Warner Center for Informatics Research” to support its clinical information systems. Intermountain’s new center — set to open on Feb. 16 — will centralize 60 fulltime healthcare IT positions, many of which are new positions. Within the next 10 years, the organization expects to need an [...]
There are three messages that I hope to leave behind in this article. They may seem unrelated, but stick to the story and you’ll see how they all interact. Career opportunities come from equal parts planning, preparation, and random events. Current Electronic Medical Records in the United States are a reflection of a dysfunctional healthcare system and thus are dysfunctional themselves. There are less complicated, easier-to-achieve first-steps for Meaningful Use than those under consideration now.
Safety concerns took center stage at the HIT Policy Committee meeting today in Washington, D.C., as Certification and Adoption Workgroup Co-chairs Paul Egerman and Marc Probst reported their recommendations on those issues to the full committee. The workgroup’s report was a refinement on an earlier presentation Egerman, a software entrepreneur, and Probst, CIO at Utah-based Intermountain Healthcare, gave after receiving testimony about HIT-related patient safety incidents on Feb. 25.
At HIMSS 2010, GE Healthcare IT tried to make a splash with the release of its Qualibria clinical knowledge management platform. While it’s unclear how the industry has received that new application, it is clear the vendor has one thing going for it — outstanding development partners in the likes of Intermountain Healthcare and the [...]
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