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www.HealthcareITNews.com March 2008 s Healthcare IT News 25 IMSS and a broad coalition of healthcare organizations are joining forces on June 10-11 for the HIMSS-sponsored 7th Annual National Health IT Advocacy Day on Capitol Hill. Advocacy Day, organized to ensure public policy issues focused on the use of information technology and management systems continue to take center stage in Washington, DC, is also a cornerstone event of the third annual National Health IT Week, June 9-13. “We must keep the pressure on key decisionmakers to transform healthcare using information technology and management systems,” said HIMSS Vice President of Government Relations Dave Roberts, FHIMSS. “HIMSS members are our best champions by providing personal stories on how and why our healthcare system needs transforming now, and Advocacy Day provides them with a great pre-arranged opportunity to meet with their elected officials.” The opportunities for legislative and regulatory action this year are unparalleled. More than 100 healthcare IT bills have been introduced in state legislatures, more than 90 healthcare IT bills are pending in the US Congress, and all of the presidential candidates are talking about and support the use of healthcare IT to decrease cost and save lives. Advocacy Day, which begins at 5:30 pm on Tuesday, June 10, and concludes at 7 pm on Wednesday, June 11, is open to all HIMSS members and affiliate organizations and sponsors for a small fee of $25. All attendees receive a HIMSS Advocacy tote bag, an updated Congress at Your Fingertips guidebook, professional legislative action and spokesperson training, in addition to meeting with members of Congress and other key decision-makers, and Impact of IT on healthcare transformation takes center stage during Advocacy Day H WELCOME PLATINUM NEW CORPORATE MEMBERS SafeMed Inc. SafeMed Inc. was founded by physicians to address the fundamental challenge in healthcare: improving quality and affordability. As a part of this mission, SafeMed created and developed products founded on its breakthrough Analysis Engine, which combines a complex set of clinical algorithms with real-time insurer business rules. www.safe-med.com ARINC ARINC is dedicated to meeting–even exceeding–customer expectations. As the premier provider of communications, engineering and integration solutions, ARINC helps its customers in the defense, commercial and government industries mitigate risk, improve operational and systems performance, and meet program requirements. www.arinc.com Wellogic Wellogic Consult, the company's award-winning clinical solution, unifies patient information and clinical workflows across hospital, payor, employer, pharmacy and service provider systems, providing clinical decision support and allowing the creation of longitudinal patient records over time. www.wellogic.com Avatier Corp. Avatier provides cost effective self-service password reset and employee provisioning and de-provisioning solutions that enable enterprises to more securely and efficiently manage employee access to corporate resources, password resets and account unlocks. Avatier products allow everyday administrative tasks to be streamlined, simplified and delegated. www.avatier.com O National Health IT Week 2008 participating in a Capitol Hill Networking and Advocacy Award Reception, where the 2008 HIMSS Advocacy Awards are presented by HIMSS Board Chair John Wade, FHIMSS. Full and partial Advocacy Day scholarships are available this year for Chapter Advocates and other interested HIMSS members who need financial assistance to attend this exciting event. Interested Chapters or members should contact HIMSS Senior Director of State Government Relations Tom Keefe at tkeefe@himss.org for more information. HIMSS members can also win an all-expense paid trip to National Health IT Week, which includes Advocacy Day, by entering the 2008 HIMSS Advocacy and Public Policy Photo Contest. E-mail digital pictures from town hall meetings, political debates, one-on-one meetings, rallies, group meetings, site visits, fundraisers, and any other interactions with political candidates, elected officials and their staff. For additional details on the contest and Advocacy Day, visit www.himss.org/advocacy. For more information on National Health IT Week, see the sidebar article below. s GOLD 314e Corp. 314e Corp. is a full services healthcare IT firm committed to improving the operational performance of its healthcare clients by offering world-class technology at competitive rates. It provides a spectrum of services to the entire healthcare value chain from producers, purchasers, providers to payors. www.314e.com FairWarning FairWarning is the world's leading supplier of crossplatform healthcare privacy auditing solutions for electronic health records. FairWarning protects healthcare organizations from emerging legal and privacy threats, which include medical identity theft, identity theft and other forms of healthcare information crimes. www.fairwarningaudit.com Aeroscout AeroScout is the market leader in enterprise visibility solutions based on Wi-Fi and other wireless-networking standards. The AeroScout Visibility System utilizes the power of innovative positioning technology to provide real business benefits through real-time location, active radio-frequency identification and telemetry. www.aeroscout.com Identity Engines Identity Engines solves the principle mobility challenge plaguing most organizations today–how to authenticate individuals on porous networks and provision them with the minimum-necessary authorization privileges consistent with their role in or relationship to the organization. www.idengines.com DSN Software Inc. DSN Software Inc. is a privately-held software development company in Washington State that engineers innovative practice management software solutions for dental and dental specialist practices. Founded in 1978, DSN has been a consistent leader in transforming practices through the integration of advanced technology. www.dsnsoft.com PC Connection Inc. PC Connection Inc., a Fortune 1000 company, has three sales subsidiaries, PC Connection Sales Corp., GovConnection Inc., and MoreDirect Inc., headquartered in Merrimack, N.H., Rockville, Md., and Boca Raton, Fla., respectively. All three subsidiaries can deliver custom-configured computer systems overnight. www.pcconnection.com To learn more about the benefits of corporate membership, visit www.himss.org or contact HIMSS Senior Director of Business Development Kelly Laidler at klaidler@himss.org or 312-915-9285. Just Released! rganizations with diverse perspectives on health and care, including HIMSS, gather in Washington, DC, the week of June 9-13 to work together under one banner with the goal of improving healthcare efficiency, quality, cost-effectiveness and patient safety through health IT. National Health IT Week is a fully collaborative annual forum where public and private sector organizations promote the common goal of interoperable health IT adoption to transform health and care in the United States. The first National Health IT Week, held in 2006, brought together 46 public and private entities. In 2007, 60 partnering organizations united in the effort, and participation in National Health IT Week 2008 is on track to be stronger than ever. There is no cost to join as a partner, and it provides significant opportunities to raise awareness of partner organizations and the benefits of health IT. To become a partner or learn more about participating in National Health IT Week 2008, visit www.healthitweek.org. s Importance of managing personal health Steering Committee promotes BY KAREN GOLDEN RUSSELL, MA, MBA O ow the most trusted industry report on hospital IT use, this new report provides valuable insights into the world of healthcare IT and the latest analysis on the penetration of IT applications in various sectors (e.g., bed size, hospital type and census regions). Information gathered from 4,000 American hospitals on more than 100 applications and technologies is provided. This valuable edition also evaluates the financial and clinical application environments in US hospitals. New this year is information on HIMSS Analytics' Electronic Medical Record Adoption ModelSM (EMRAM), which scores organiza- N 2008 Annual Report of the US Hospital IT Market HIMSS and HIMSS Analytics™ LLC, the wholly-owned market-research arm of HIMSS. Data is from the HIMSS Analytics™ Database 2007 (derived from the Dorenfest IHDS+ Database™). To order, visit www.himss.org/ store, or call 312-664-4467. s The 2008 Annual Report of the U.S. Hospital IT Market is produced jointly by tions on their progress in completing the eight stages toward achieving a paperless patient record environment. Also, a section on “Next Generation RCM Index” covers the market storm brewing for revenue cycle management and measures the market adoption of newer RCM application capabilities. ne of the most talked about subjects in the healthcare IT industry today is the management of personal health. In July 2005, HIMSS created the PHR Steering Committee to address the emerging national discussion surrounding PHRs, including their definition, design and adoption. The committee focuses on identifying key elements of a PHR, identifying barriers to adoption of PHRs, and developing strategies for removing these barriers along with strategies for increasing PHR adoption. Chaired by Holly Miller, MD, chief medical information officer at University Hospitals in Cleveland, and co-chaired by Lucy Mancini-Newall, director of clinical solutions at Perot Systems Corp., the committee is comprised of 17 members with a broad representation of healthcare constituent groups, including software and telemonitoring vendors, provider organizations, consulting companies and payors. Among its accomplishments thus far, the committee has developed an ePHR definition, meant to address both the current and future http://www.HealthcareITNews.com http://www.safe-med.com http://www.arinc.com http://www.wellogic.com http://www.avatier.com http://www.314e.com http://www.fairwarningaudit.com http://www.aeroscout.com http://www.idengines.com http://www.himss.org/advocacy http://www.dsnsoft.com http://www.pcconnection.com http://www.himss.org http://www.healthitweek.org http://www.himss.org/phr http://www.himss.org/phr http://www.himss.org/store http://www.himss.org/store

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