Healthcare IT News - January 2008 - (Page 4) Healthcare IT News ■ January 2008 industry news www.HealthcareITNews.com aHIMa to tackle standards for nursing home It By BerNIe MoNegaIN, Editor – The American Health - anagem I nSigma tGroup M276377 e n t forma ion Project: Association’s Foundation of Panasonic Toughbook - December Research Campaign: Healthcareand Education – FORE – has launched a project focused Creative: PAN308 Trust on electronic health records and AE: Scott Lifschin other information technology for use in nursing homes. The work from this project will enable post-acute and long-term care vendors and providers to CHICaGo Ship Info: Healthcare Publication: Healthcare IT News these CHI stanFORE will use the Consolidated IT News develop and implement electronic dards, and develHealth Informatics standards71 Pineland Dr. accepthealth #: IO records and healthcare None op guidance for information technology prod- ed by the Department of Health 203 Ste and Issue: 08/Jan using them for the ucts Ad Type: be functional in the Human Services for assessment that will Island Single New Gloucester, ME 04260 exchange instruments used in long-term care. Diekmann | MedTech Publishingof stanemerging interoperable nation- in Attn: Karen bleed = 8.375 in X 10.875 dardized assessSpecifically, the project will wide health information network. Company trim = 8.125 in X 10.625 in ment and patient Also, the project will provide poli- apply approved CHI standards t: 207-688-6270 f: None safety = 7.625 in X 10.125 in summary data. cymakers with additional informa- to the nursing home Minimum Linda Kloss FORE has assembled a team Data Set (MDS) and home health tion to support implementation in B:8.375 of healthcare IT standards for patient Outcome Assessment Information skilled in data and exchange stanT:8.125 in assessments required by the federal Set (OASIS), validate the accuracy dards to accomplish the work, said S:7.625 in and impact of the application of Linda Kloss, CEO of AHIMA. government. Chief among FORE’s goals are: ■ Create a sample Health Level Seven (HL7) clinical document architecture (CDA) for the exchange of MDS data and assess the potential and requirements for a general CDA, MDS solution ■ Create a sample HL7 continuity of care document that incorporates data from the federally required assessment and other patient aHIMa see page 5 Panasonic recommends Windows Vista® Business. MaNos Continued from page 3 DON’T TRUST THE NEW PANASONIC TOUGHBOOK T7. LEGALLY, WE CANNOT SAY YOUR HEALTHCARE TO ANYONE ELSE. Why do we call our new Toughbook ® T7 the total healthcare package? We did our homework. We looked at healthcare from all angles and engineered the Toughbook T7 to be light on its feet at only 3.3 pounds, and long on endurance with extended battery life. Then we built in protection from drops, bangs and spills. We sealed it from liquids, for easy sanitizing and infection control. We gave it a touchscreen LCD for simplicity with EMRs and enhanced security features to keep those records confidential. Finally, we integrated wireless WAN for a reliable connection virtually anywhere. Have the alternatives done all this homework? panasonic.com/toughbook/healthcare 1.800.662.3537 committees or completely on the back burner include the National Health Information Incentive Act introduced by Reps. Charles Gonzalez (D-Texas) and Phil Gingrey (R-Ga.) to alleviate the high cost of adopting healthcare information technology, and the Promotion of Health Information Technology Act, sponsored by Reps. Anna Eshoo (D-Calif.) and Mike Rogers (R-Mich.) to accelerate adoption. Sens. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) and Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.) introduced a bill to provide patients with more control over their electronic health records, and Sen. John Kerry Deborah Peel, (D-Mass.) intro- MD duced a bill that would pay doctors bonuses for using e-prescribing. Probably the most debated and one of the obstacles to its passage was a very forceful and growing contingency of privacy activists led by deborah peel, Md, founder of patient privacy rights B:10.875 in T:10.625 in S:10.125 in THE RUGGED ORIGINAL. promising bill, The Wired for Health Care Quality Act of 2007, introduced by Sens. Kennedy, Michael Enzi (R-Wyo.), Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.) and Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), had activity until the 11th hour as Congress did its best to pass the bill by special measures that require no debate. One of the obstacles to its passage was a very forceful and growing contingency of privacy activists led by Deborah Peel, MD, founder of Patient Privacy Rights, who never faltered in pressing for greater privacy and had a good deal to do with the bill not passing. Depending on how you look at it, Peel and her coalition are quite possibly some of only a few people who can say they had a good year in 2007. ■ More at HealthcareITNews.com e Connect: MaNoS 0108 e ● Connect: paNaSoNIc 0108 Intel, Intel logo, Intel Centrino, Intel Centrino logo, Intel Inside, Intel Inside logo and Pentium are trademarks or registered trademarks of Intel Corporation or its subsidiaries in the United States and other countries. Toughbook notebook PCs are covered by a 3-year limited warranty, parts and labor. To view the full text of the warranty, log on to panasonic.com/business/toughbook/support.asp. Please consult your Panasonic representative prior to purchase. ©2008 Panasonic Corporation of North America. All rights reserved. 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