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emergeNcy systems: Applications streamline workflow pAge 72 Published in partnership with tHE nEWS SOurCE FOr HEALtHCArE InFOrMAtIOn tECHnOLOGy n February 2008 Bush calls for boost in healthcare IT spending Katrina work The HIMSS Katrina Phoenix Project has completed its overall mission. Read about the work. PAGE 45 News By DIAnA MAnOS, Senior Editor WASHINGTON – Hot potato People in the know say e-prescribing is emerging as a ‘hot’ issue for 2008. PAGE 5 Wal-Mart focus E-prescribing is one of the topics that interests the big-box retailer, according to its CEO. PAGE 12 commeNtary President Bush fiscal year 2009 spending proposal calls for $66 million for the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, a $6 million increase over last year’s request. The president’s budget – essentially a recommendation– will be considered by Congress when it works out its own appropriations bill, which will not be decided until next August. Bush said the proposed increase for the ONC would be used to support the administration’s policy to advance electronic health records by 2014 for all Americans. The money will also be used to establish a successor to the federal advisory panel, the American Health Information Community as an independent and sustainable public-private partnership. The president also called for $45 million for the Agency for Healthcare Research Quality to advance healthcare IT to promote patient safety and $3 million for the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation for independent evaluations of factors influencing healthcare IT. The president’s plan would set aside $3.8 million to support the second year of a demonstration project providing financial incentives for up to 1,200 physician practices to adopt certified electronic health record systems. President Bush included money in his budget for the advancement of healthcare IT, including $66 million for the ONC. The president’s FY 2009 request includes $26 million to continue the Nationwide Health Information Network trial implementations. n More AT HealthcareItnews.com e Connect: BUDgeT 0208 ● CIO role CIO George T. Hickman considers the changing, more complex role of today’s CIO. PAGE 21 HosPItaLs & IDNs Allina pushes beyond EHR Minneapolis health system wins Davies Award and prepares for next IT move. By BErnIE MOnEGAIn, Editor MINNEAPOLIS – Wasteland No need to lock old computers into closets. Hospitals are finding new ways to recycle. PAGE 25 PHysIcIaN PractIces & ambuLatory care Florida clinics link with new ED system By rICHArD PIzzI, Associate Editor Linking docs Boston’s Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital has found a way to help connect non-owned docs. PAGE 35 Payers P4P team Wellmark Blues, Iowa Health launch P4P pilot. PAGE 53 VeNDors Fire sale? Investors jostle for position as the future of troubled Medquist remains uncertain. PAGE 65 CLInICAL toolkit Emergency systems It’s a fight between enterprise solutions and best-of-breed. PAGE 72 The team at Allina Hospitals and Clinics is freshly done with a 3 1/2 year electronic health record and revenue cycle system rollout that insiders say has changed everything for caregivers and for patients. The $250 million project spanned eight hospitals and 65 clinics, and it won Allina the coveted Davies Award from the Healthcare Information Management and Systems Society. A group from Allina will pick up the award at the annual HIMSS conference Feb. 25-28. Allina, which cares for patients throughout Minnesota, and western Wisconsin, implemented technology developed by Wisconsinbased Epic Systems. It made it its © PHOTO by GARy bISTRAM Excellian nursing coordinators Bev Dehn, RN, Unity Hospital, left, and Dawn Anderson, RN, Mercy Hospital, review some of the charts. own by tailoring it to its specific needs and naming it “Excellian.” Susan Heichert, Allina’s director of the Excellian implementation, has had a 25-year career of rolling out technology like this at other healthcare systems. This one was more challenging, she said, and unique for her because it included ALLInA see page 26 – After Hours Pediatrics, the largest pediatric urgent care organization in the nation, has purchased an integrated emergency department information sys- Charles tem that will link Wellborn, MD each of its 25 Florida clinics. The clinics, owned by Knoxville, Tenn.-based Team Health, inked a deal with Allscripts to implement the Chicago-based vendor’s HealthMatics ED software. AHP plans to go live with the system by summer 2008. After Hours Pediatrics is different than most urgent care clinics, as the clinics are staffed by trained TAMPA, FL FLOrIDA see page 36 IBM, Mayo tackle imaging research By FrED BAzzOLI, Editor MAnAGEMEnt Solutions Beyond business In the hospital setting, enterprise resource planning goes beyond the usual business applications. PAGE 74 www.HealthcareItNews.com MedTech Publishing Company / Vol. 5 No. 2 – The Mayo Clinic and IBM Corp. have pledged to expand a 2007 collaborative research effort aimed at making cutting-edge imaging technology available in more medical facilities. The effort is already drawing interest from industry leaders such ROCHESTER, MN as Siemens and the McKesson Corp. “We’re trying to pull everyone together and help them build this next generation of tools that will help improve quality and productivity,” said Bill Rapp, chief technology officer for IBM Healthcare and Life Sciences. The Medical Imaging Informatics Innovation Center, located on the Mayo campus in Rochester, Minn. will apply research and associated technologies to cut the time needed to get results from algorithms that can help clinicians with radiological assessments. “The hope of the center is to be able to use computers to extract information and key images in large exams, and make radiologists do our jobs more efficiently and better,” said said Bradley Erickson, MD, head of Mayo’s radiology informatics lab. n More AT HealthcareItnews.com e Connect: reSeArCH 0208 HImss symposia draw more attendees than last year 51% Six weeks before the annual HIMSS conference Feb. 25-28, registration for special education sessions were running ahead of last year. 38% 37% 29% Nursing Physician CIO Clinical Forum Engineering Symposia Symposia SOURCE: HIMSS ● http://www.healthcareitnews.com http://www.healthcareitnews.com/story.cms?id=8580 http://www.healthcareitnews.com http://www.healthcareitnews.com http://www.healthcareitnews.com/story.cms?id=8583

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Healthcare It News - February 2008 Contents Hot Potato Wal-Mart Focus CIO Role Wasteland Linking Docs Katrina Work P4P Team Fire Sale? Emergency Systems Beyond Business

Healthcare It News - February 2008

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