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CPOE roadblocks — “The technology gets in the way.”
“At-the-elbow support” from nursing
Struggling with quality measures
Stage 2 — “It’s a matter of maturing what we have.”
Being the resident MU expert
Telepsychiatry HIE
During a joint hearing of two Federal Advisory Committees in Washington, D.C. on Monday, four influential CIOs stressed the need for more focus on standards development and spoke about the hurdles to attesting to Stage 2. CHIME members Pamela McNutt, Tom Pagano, Rodney Dykehouse, and Randy McCleese provided testimony on Stage 1 implementation, Stage 2 […]
The FDRHPO isn’t immune to the mistake of “putting the cart before the horse.” Before the formation of the PEC, we built a state-of-the-art, region-wide, fiber optic network connecting medical facilities in five counties — a network that, until recently, was underutilized. We continue to seek applications for the solution […]
CHIME leaders are concerned that hospitals aren’t prepared to submit accurate and complete quality data via EHRs. In comments submitted to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), the organization said it supports efforts to create a standardized system for electronic clinical quality measurement (CQM) and align EHR-based reporting and hospital quality reporting programs. […]
CHIME’s message to the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT is clear: slow down. In its comments regarding the Health IT Policy Committee’s proposed measures for Stage 3, CHIME urged the federal advisory committee to recommend thorough evaluations of what has been accomplished so far in order to establish realistic measures and objectives. […]
The New England Journal of Medicine recently published an excellent article on patient satisfaction and outcomes data (“The Patient Experience and Health Outcomes”). My Toyota maintenance guy sends me a customer satisfaction email automatically after each “clinical encounter” with my cars. He asks me to rate the quality of the service he provided as well […]
About University of Iowa Healthcare
The benefits of a closed medical staff
Centralizing core services
Preventing the one-off departmental buy
Warning vendors of “negative consequences”
The pressures on employed docs
As I look forward to the impact of healthcare reform, whether it is a partisan or bipartisan initiative, I can only predict one thing: we will need access to accurate and comprehensive clinical, operational, and financial data in order to meet whatever new requirements may come. Most communities are still struggling with process measures …
