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www.HealthcareITNews.com HoSpITalS & IdNs March 2008 services in order to reach a broader audience as well as provide patients with greater portability in accessing data outside the Cleveland Clinic Health System. “We chose Cleveland Clinic as one of the first partners to pilot our new health offering because as a provider, they already empower their patients by giving them online tools that help them manage their medical records online and coordinate care with their doctors,” said Marissa Mayer, vice president of Search Products ■ Healthcare IT News 13 CaNCer Continued from page 11 google Continued from page 11 to handling several cases. Thirty percent of the cases that have been discussed to date had important management changes made, Brady said. “This link we’ve put together is a great tool in early intervention – especially in headscratcher cases,” Brady said. MMC uses technology developed by Pleasanton, Calif.-based Frank J. Brady Polycom. It makes it possible for physicians to diagnose and treat patients remotely as if they were in the same room, he said. “If during a symposium, a doctor has input or feedback, he or she is able to tap a button integrated into the room’s smart desks that activates a local microphone and alerts the camera to pan automatically to the speaker,” Brady said. “Functionality like this eliminates distractions in dealing with the technology and keeps the flow of the meeting natural.” The video collaboration endpoints also enable simultaneous transfer of high-definition multimedia content, making it possible to share Bill McDonald high-resolution documents such as CT scans and X-rays to between sites without loss of video quality or detail. “It’s interesting that MMC and St. Jude’s were doing the same thing in parallel,” said Bill McDonald, president of St. Joseph’s Hospital. “Now we take it to the next level. What we’re learning gets shared with the entire world. If you put to saints together, how can you go wrong?” McDonald sees the oncology partnership between St. Joseph’s and St. Jude’s as “just scratching the surface.” Raul Ribeiro, MD, at St. Jude’s agrees. Continuing education is anRaul Ribeiro, MD other critical area in which clinicians can learn from each other with presentations and case studies that can be shared with clinicians everywhere, he said. MMC received the Polycom technology free after responding to a magazine advertisement – a contest promoted by the company. Polycom has continued to support MMC with donations since. “It’s an opportunity to give back and help, and show the clinical effectiveness,” said Ron Emerson, Polycom’s Global Director of Healthcare. ■ More at HealthcareITNews.com e Connect: caNcer 0308 clinical delivery setting. Clinic officials say the goal of this patient-centered and controlled model is to give patients the ability to interact with multiple physicians, healthcare service providers and pharmacies, giving them more control over their health. Executives say the clinic’s integration with the Google platform will help create national access to elec- tronic medical records at no cost to the user or provider. “Utilizing Cleveland Clinic’s PHR expertise, this collaboration is intended to help Google test features and services that will ultimately allow all Americans (as patients) to direct the exchange of their medical information between their various providers without compromising their privacy,” said C. Martin Harris, MD, CIO of the Cleveland Clinic. The pilot will eventually extend to the Cleveland Clinic’s online patient and User Experience at Google. Delos M. Cosgrove, MD, president and CEO of the Cleveland Clinic and a member of the Google Health Advisory Council, added, “As the volume of medical information available to patients increases, it becomes more important for doctors and patients to use this information in a way that empowers the patient to be more collaborative with their care providers.” More at HealthcareITNews.com e Connect: GooGLe 0308 l “Before deploying the Dictaphone® EXSpeech® recognition system, our approach to creating documentation was inconsistent and inefficient. The costs and staffing pressures of maintaining a full-time transcription department were staggering. Now, 100% of our professional staff (i.e. 330 physical and occupational therapy clinicians) are dictating their reports with ease. We’ve seen transcription productivity gains as high as 55%! We’ve been able to eliminate the majority of our outsourcing. Report turnaround time has decreased from 1 - 2 weeks to less than 48 hours on average. Priority reports are being produced in just a few hours. We’re generating 450 to 700 reports daily. That’s possible because our Dictaphone system offers the flexibility to dictate by phone, wireless iPAQ®, and PC. That makes it easy to deploy across all of our existing locations and the new ones we’re adding all the time. Thanks to Dictaphone, patient documentation is no longer a burden for AthletiCo. Best of all, because Dictaphone EXSpeech has freed our staff from the mechanics of creating patient reports, they have more quality time available for our patients. The return on this technology investment has far exceeded my expectations. I’m confident that the rapid growth we’re experiencing is indicative of the value Dictaphone will bring in the future.” Nick Tsatsis Chief Operations Officer AthletiCo Rehabilitation Fitness & Performance, Ltd. Chicago, Illinois ©2008 Nuance Communications, Inc. www.nuance.com /dictaphone | 1.800.350.4836, EXT. 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