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bar coDINg: Uptake slow in hospitals page 35 Published in partnership with ThE NEwS SourCE For hEAlThCArE INForMATIoN TEChNoloGy n MarCh 2008 ‘Smashing success’ More than 28,400 attendees and 900 exhibitors made HIMSS08 a recordbreaking event. PAGE 23 News Telehealth boon for Ohio babies Neonatologists collaborate in real-time with pediatricians across the state. By rIChArd PIzzI, Associate Editor COLUMBUS, OH – An innovative telemedicine project in central Ohio plans to extend its reach, using high definition videoconferencing technology to connect remote medical facilities in the St. Jude’s and St. state with one of the nation’s leadJoseph’s telehealth ing children’s hospitals. project - Page 11 The Division of Neonatology at Nationwide Children’s Hospital in Columbus is the largest in the United States, treating more than 2,100 babies per year. But until recently, infants outside the greater Columbus area did not have easy access to the skills of specialists at Nationwide Children’s. That changed in March 2007, when Nationwide Children’s partnered with the Columbusbased Ohio Supercomputer Center to link the hospital’s neonatology experts with pediatricians at Adena Health System in Chillicothe, Ohio. All parties involved view the resulting project as a success, and want to expand it. “The project was funded with federal dollars, and No. 1 e-prescribing Guess which state is No. 1 in eprescribing for the second year in a row? PAGE 3 ‘Quite bright’ The head of the panel developing standards for healthcare IT is positively enthusiastic. PAGE 4 commeNtary Bill Frist on IT The heart surgeon and former Senate Majority Leader considers how IT is likely to change healthcare. PAGE 9 HosPItaLs & IDNs Google connection Cleveland Clinic teams up with Google on model for personal health record. PAGE 11 PHysIcIaN PractIces & ambuLatory care Poised for P4P HHS is ready to pick physician practices for its P4P demo. Officials were in Maine to make the pitch. PAGE 17 Payers John Radford, MD, attending physician at Adena Regional Medical Center in Chillicothe, Ohio, consults with neonatologists at Nationwide Children’s Hospital in Columbus, Ohio, via high-definition videoconferencing, perhaps saving TElEhEAlTh see page 12 the newborn an unnecessary transfer to the hospital in Columbus. Tough on fraud QualChoice of Arkansas boosts IT to tackle fraud and waste. PAGE 28 VeNDors It’s analytics IBM spots a megatrend. It’s all about transforming data into results, the company says. PAGE 31 Eclipsys beefs up portfolio with EPSi buy ATLANTA e-prescribing errors raise worries By Molly MErrIll, Associate Editor COLUMBUS, OH By ErIC wICkluNd, Managing Editor ClINICAl Toolkit Stuck in neutral Even as automation goes forward at hospitals across the country, barcoding remains fragmented. PAGE 35 MANAGEMENT Solutions Getting rid of the pain Security is the goal. Multiple passwords are the pain. PAGE 34 www.HealthcareItNews.com MedTech Publishing Company / Vol. 5 No. 3 – The Eclipsys Corporation added some strength to the ‘Outcomes’ portion of its ‘The Outcomes Company’ moniker last month with the purchase of Enterprise Performance Systems, Inc., a St. Louis-based provider of financial solutions for healthcare companies. In a deal announced during the HIMSS08 conference and show in Orlando, Fla., Eclipsys acquired all of EPSi’s issued and outstanding capital stock for a purchase price of approximately $53 million in cash. The ouTCoMES see page 32 – The Ohio pharmacy board has reported that it has seen electronic prescribing errors that occur somewhere between the process of prescription translation from doctor to vendor and finally to the pharmacy. Bill Winsley, executive director of the Ohio pharmacy board, says the most common e-prescribing error is one of translation. He said what the pharmacy is seeing are field links allow 250 words for directions on usage, howthat are not perever this may sistent – in other “we have words, truncated documented a carload of change when it reaches the fields. them (errors).” vendor switch “We have doc– Bill Winsley and then again umented a carwhen it reaches load of them,” Winsley said, when asked about the pharmacy, cutting out important information. the number of errors. “The more the problems are As an example, he said the switch the physicians use may only ErrorS see page 19 Four major health plans seek to speed work with lookup tool By PATTy ENrAdo, Contributing Editor consumers support P4P Consumers are receptive to programs that reward physicians for adherence to evidence-based standards as basis for physician payment. – Four of the 10 largest health plans in the country are deploying a Web-based tool for retrieving updated provider information. ALISA VIEJO, CA Enclarity is banking that its Pr o v i d e r L o o k u p tool will replace the labor-intensive search health plans exert trying to find Stephanie the most current, Rose-Belcher correct and comprehensive information on providers, said Stephanie Rose-Belcher, vice president of payer solutions lookuP see page 29 43% 42% 15% yES No MAyBE e l Connect: gRapHS 0308 Deloitte 2008 survey of healthCare CoNsumers http://www.HealthcareITNews.com

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Healthcare IT News - March 2008 Contents No. 1 E-prescribing ‘Quite Bright’ Bill Frist on IT Google Connection Poised for P4P ‘Smashing Success’ Tough On Fraud It's Analytics Getting Rid of the Pain Stuck In Neutral

Healthcare IT News - March 2008

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