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trackINg assets: In healthcare, it’s critical page 34 Published in partnership with tHE NEwS SouRCE foR HEALtHCARE INfoRMAtIoN tECHNoLoGY n APril 2008 Summit08 “Advancing Healthcare Leadership through IT” is the focus of HIMSS Summit08, June 9-10. PAGE 23 News Montana clinic reaches goals in CMS pilot Technology, physician work contribute to outcomes. BY PAttY ENRADo, Contributing Editor BILLINGS, MT ‘Real work begins now’ one-time rivals Misys Healthcare and Allscripts poised to join forces in down market. BY ERIC wICkLuND, Managing Editor CHICAGO – Two stumbling healthcare IT heavyweights New media push Experts say social media is the way to get the word out about personal health records. PAGE 3 Stepping down After six years at the helm, Scott Wallace takes leave of the Alliance for Health Information Technology. PAGE 5 commeNtary BI headaches Pervasive business intelligence may be more trouble than it’s worth, says columnist John Kitchen. PAGE 9 HosPItaLs & IDNs Decision grants Research under way on how best to provide decision support at point of care. PAGE 11 PHysIcIaN PractIces & ambuLatory care – The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has just closed the books on the second performance year of its Medicare Physician Group Practice demonstration, and the Billings Clinic released a case study on its participation of that pilot. From January 2006 through July 2007, the Billings Clinic Heart Failure Clinic saw a 59 percent reduction in hospitalization of congestive heart failure patients, which accrued more than $3 million of total cost savings, including $2.46 million to the Medicare program. The Clinic managed more than 500 patients, who are MoNtANA see page 30 Safety alerts New network replaces paper-based drug safety alerts for physicians with online warnings. PAGE 17 Payers Snooping into medical records mounts Spears medical breach raises privacy questions anew. BY MoLLY MERRILL, Associate Editor SANTA MONICA, CA - Unauthorized access to medical records is becoming a celebrity right of passage. George Clooney made headlines back in October and have decided to lend each other a hand. And while the reac“we’ve achieved tion from analysts has been subdued, the crItIcaL proposed merger of mass, and now British-based Misys Plc and Chicago- Progress has to based Allscripts has be made.” its respective CEOs, – Mike lawrie Mike Lawrie and Glen Tullman, seeing a brighter future and a more complete healthcare IT offering. “Our mutual clients understand the power of this transaction,” Tullman said during a recent conference call with Lawrie – one of many the two have been conducting. “And then the market will catch up.” The merger, announced March 18 and expected to take four to eight months to be completed, gives Misys a 54.5-percent stake in the merged company and a majority on its proposed 10-member board of directors, while making Raleigh, N.C.-based Misys Healthcare a wholly owned subsidiary of Allscripts Mike Lawrie of Misys, left, and Allscripts CEO Glen Tullman look over some numbers at Allscripts headquarters in Chicago after a recent meeting. and giving $330 million to Allscripts to disburse to its stockholders. The two companies had revenues of MERGE see page 32 Growing an EHR VeNDors Missouri’s Medicaid program expands its electronic health record. PAGE 28 Year 24 Organizers of Towards the Electronic Patient Record promise newer, fresher conference and show. PAGE 31 now it’s Britney Spears’ Framingham, Mass. turn, which begs based Courion is in the the question, what can identity management hospitals do to protect market. Its technology against a breach in designs hospital propatient privacy? visioning policies and If you ask Kurt automates the role creation of hospital staff Johnson, vice president of access, to be assessed Corporate Development Britney Spears at Courion, he would say it all lies against these policies. “As more medical records are in automation and enforcement. moved online, we greatly enhance visibility and patient safety because we are ensuring access to patients’ records, providing better care. But with this comes the responsibility for creating policies for who has access to what, and making sure that gets enforced,” Johnson says If you were to ask Mark Jacobs, director, technology services, SNooPING see page 12 CLINICAL toolkit H current It priorities (Next 12 months) Inpatient clinical information systems Reduce medical errors/ promote patient safety Implement an EMR Connect hospital with remote environments 40% 39% 38% 30% Location services Asset location is critical in the healthcare market. PAGE 34 NYC docs sign on for eHRs BY CHELSEY LEDuE, Contributing Editor MANAGEMENt Solutions New consulting Targeted expertise available for just about any challenge healthcare providers face. PAGE 35 www.HealthcareItNews.com MedTech Publishing Company / Vol. 5 No. 4 Base: 307 responses, representing 207 unique healthcare organizations and more than 700 hospitals. e l Connect: gRapHS 0408 Source: 19TH AnnuAl 2008 HiMSS leAderSHip Survey, SponSored By ciSco – New York City will spend about $30 million to equip more than 1,000 primary care physician offices with electronic health records – enough to cover 1 million patients. The city signed a contract with Westborough, Mass.-based eClinicalWorks a year ago to help design and implement the program. Officials have spent the past several months developing the system and recruiting practices. Approximately 250 providers have signed up so far. “It has only been in the last two to three months that we have started implementing this program in NEW YORK Farzad Mostashari, MD e a r n e s t ,” said Farzad Mostashari, MD, assistant healthcare commissioner for the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. A physician practice may qualify to participate in the program if at least 30 percent of a practice’s patient base is uninsured or on Medicaid. Additionally, all physicians practicing in the high-need NYC see page 18 http://www.HealthcareItNews.com

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