Healthcare IT News - January 2008 - (Page 15) www.HealthcareITNews.com HoSpItalS & IdNs of resources. By doing a sample workflow with simulated patients, the researchers can analyze treatment of 5,000 imaginary patients overnight and they can manipulate it in all sorts of ways, rather than building it in the real world, which would take months and months, Ketcherside said. “I thought what doctors did was hard, it turns out what nurses do in a day is 10 times more complicated in terms of workflow than what anyone else does in a day,” he said. “Most products on the mar- January 2008 ■ Healthcare IT News 15 FarMInG Continued from page 13 used by the Marine Warfighting Laboratory in Quantico, Va., to improve understanding of modern combat situations. Ketcherside said Methodist Le Bonheur’s data farming project, which has only just started, is relatively new for healthcare and will look at all the variable options of what a nurse does in a day to determine ways to get the best care with the fewest amount ket don’t handle everything that ning thousands of simulations on nurses do. Commercial products imaginary patients and imaginary scenarios to find out previare still very immature.” ously unknown options for A c c o r d i n g t o Pa u l providing care. Cornell, director of the The Center is also using Center for Healthcare data farming to look at and Technology at the ways to improve the physUniversity of Memphis, ical environment to aid data farming should not be nurses, Cornell said. This confused with the some- W. Joseph times controversial data Ketcherside, MD could include grouping mining, which uses existing de- patients together so nurses have identified patient data to study less walking around to do, and marketing patterns. Rather, data observing how much this would farming “grows” data by run- impact quality of care. According to Cornell, preliminary results of data farming models have shown it may be possible to make changes that can result in shorter hospital stays, resulting in a positive impact on the bottom line. In addition, if changes can be made to improve a nurse’s capacity, the hospital may be able to improve retention of nursing staff and could possibly reduce nurseto-patient ratios. ■ More at healthcareITnews.com e connect: FarMINg 0108 l GolDen Continued from page 13 Golden will conduct the survey in January and February. The results will be published in April. “This type of information is critical to ascertaining the needs of our clients,” Salem said. “Hospitals also need to be aware of what IT systems their peers are deploying to remain competitive, for example, to improve quality performance, increase operating efficiency, and decrease expenses.” “the survey will also help us to confirm increased interest in deploying management dashboards to monitor performance.” – Pat Salem “The survey will also help us to confirm nationally, the local trend of increased interest from healthcare providers in deploying management dashboards to monitor performance,” Salem added. “We believe market drivers such as consumerism, value-driven healthcare and pay-for-performance initiatives are fueling the need for increased transparency and reporting of healthcare quality and cost data.” Salem hopes the survey will elicit an understanding of how quickly hospitals in the United States are adopting both new clinical IT systems (such as EMR and CPOE), and leading edge management information systems, such as data warehouses and marts, ad hoc query reporting and performance dashboarding. Hospitals that respond to the survey will receive a complimentary copy of the survey whitepaper. The name of the organization will be coded to protect the identity of individual hospitals. Hospitals will be benchmarked against their peers in terms of bed size and geographic region. The information will give administrators some sense of where their individual hospital ranks in comparison to others on the IT spectrum, and may offer some insight into an organization’s strategic market position, Salem said. ■ More at healthcareITnews.com e connect: goLdeN 0108 Taking care of the little things makes all the difference. We connect more providers to more payers than anyone else. But what really sets us apart is all the little things we do for both that make the business of claims and payments so much more efficient. Discover how Emdeon is changing the business of healthcare. Visit www.emdeon.com today. Simplifying the Business of Healthcare l Patient Access Management • Claim Management • Remittance & Payment Distribution • Patient Billing & Payment e l connect: eMdeoN 0108 http://www.HealthcareITNews.com http://HealthcareITNews.com http://www.healthcareitnews.com/story.cms?id=8416 http://www.emdeon.com http://www.emdeon.com http://HealthcareITNews.com http://www.healthcareitnews.com/story.cms?id=8415 http://www.healthcareitnews.com/eConnect.cms?id=8463
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