Healthcare IT News - April 2008 - (Page 11)

www.HealthcareITNews.com April 2008 ■ Healthcare IT News 11 NEWSBRIEFS BEthESda MEMoRIal BEEFS up MEdIcal MaNagEMENt Bethesda Memorial Hospital in Boynton Beach, Fla., has deployed new medical management software. The technology, developed by Chico, Calif.-based Landacorp, enables Bethesda to have timely access to patient information, hospital officials said. Called eM2, it is the companion software to Landacorp’s Maxsys II medical management software that includes the Web-based online risk incident report form. The 401bed Bethesda Memorial Hospital uses the case, quality and risk management modules of Maxsys II. Grants bolster clinical decision support Research under way at Brigham and Women’s, Yale University. By BerNIe MoNegaIN, Editor ROCKVILLE, MD – Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston and the Yale University School of Medicine in New Haven, Conn., have been awarded $5 million from the government for clinical decision support projects. The projects will focus on translation of clinical guidelines and outcomes related to preven- well executed, physicians tive healthcare and treatment of will find that clinical decipatients with multiple chronic sion support is more helpful, easier to use illnesses. and a routine part Clinicians’ use of cliniof care, Jonathan cal decision support also M. Teich, MD, one will be evaluated. the authors of the Jonathan The American Medical Teich, MD report, said. Informatics Association Teich practices and released in 2006 “A teaches at Brigham and Roadmap for National Carolyn Women’s Hospital. Ac tion on C linical Clancy, MD The Agency for Healthcare Decision Support.” In five years, if the roadmap is Research and Quality, part of the Department of Health and Human Services, announced the awards to Yale and Brigham and Women’s last month. “These projects build on AHRQ’s investment in health IT and the lessons that we have already learned from our grantees and contractors,” said AHRQ Director Carolyn M. Clancy, MD. “We hope that important deCIsIoN see page 13 NoRth caRolINa hoSpItal to autoMatE aSSEt tRackINg The Women’s Hospital of Greensboro, part of North Carolina’s Moses Cone Health System, has chosen the RadarFind Real Time Location System to monitor the location and status of its mobile medical equipment. The indoor tracking system pinpoints the location of medical equipment throughout the hospital and displays this information via the hospital staff’s computer screens. The system also gathers data about equipment utilization rates to help hospital administrators more accurately plan for new medical equipment purchases. Univ. of Michigan to replace legacy PACS system By BerNIe MoNegaIN, Editor Security expert says HIPaa doesn’t have clout it takes By Molly MerrIll, Associate Editor PORTLAND, OR – Security and privacy expert Chris hollaNd hoSpItal BooStS BuSINESS SIdE tEch Holland Hospital, a 205-bed, not-for-profit hospital in Holland, Mich., has rolled out new applications to boost its reporting capabilities and automate business processes. The hospital tapped Lawson Software for the new technology. In addition to the business applications, Holland also deployed the Lawson Mobile Supply Chain Management solution to save time each day tracking and replenishing supplies. – The University of Michigan Health System, made up of three hospitals and nine clinical centers, expects to improve the efficiency of its radiology team with the rollout of a new picture archiving and communications system. Go-live at all facilities is slated for early summer. The university has selected McKesson’s Horizon Medical Imaging PACS to replace its legacy system, on which radiologists at the health system now conduct about 550,000 exams a year. McKesson is helping the university system with the migration of 2 million archived studies into the new PACS system. McKesson executives say their Horizon Medical Imaging system can manage large data sets. ■ ANN ARBOR, MI More at HealthcareITNews.com IoWa hEalthcaRE SyStEM BooStS MEdIcatIoN SaFEty Myrtue Medical Center, an integrated healthcare delivery system in Harlan, Iowa, plans to implement medication reconciliation software. Myrtue will use MedsTracker software from Seattle-based Design Clinicals, Inc., a provider of advanced medication reconciliation and patient safety systems. “Over the past three years, Myrtue Medical Center has been recognized for leadership in clinical excellence, and our goal has always been to put patient safety at the top of our medical care list,” said Mark Woodring, Myrtue’s CEO. “This new software package will help us with that ongoing patient care mission.” More at HealthcareITNews.com e Connect: HoSPItaLS 0408 e lConnect: MICHIGaN 0408 A recent Research Concepts survey reveals that 72 percent of IT asset managers believe Apgar says the Health Insurance Portability and their own employees – those with access to Accountability Act doesn’t have what it takes to encryption keys and passwords enforce the regulations to prevent medical iden- –were responsible for the most incidents of data breach in their tity theft. In 2005, leukemia patient Eric Drew’s identi- organization. Drew’s case became the first ty was stolen by a lab technician at the hospital where he was being treated, making headlines. successful conviction under Lab technician Richard Gibson was part of the HIPAA, setting a precedent it team that Drew relied on for treatment. But it seemed for more cases to follow. Chris Apgar Javelin Strategy and Research released a surturned out that Gibson was the very person that vey last month on identity fraud. Rachel Kim, posed a threat. an associate analyst at the StatuS oF all coMplaINtS firm, says that unauthorized April 14, 2003 through February 29, 2008 access of health records could fall under two categories, Complaints Resolved (79%) that of “data breaches” repre26,955 Complaints Remaining senting 7 percent of identity Open (21%) theft resulting in fraud and “other” which accounts for 2 6,961 percent. She says their studTotal Complaints Received 33,916 ies, “year over year shows that the majority of identity theft e Connect: GraPHS 0408 l REFERRaLS TO DOJ - 422, REFERRaLS TO CMS - 218 HIpaa see page 14 Study names top 100 hospitals on patient safety affecting Medicare patients treated in U.S. – It’s not just about informa- hospitals from 2001 through 2005. The highest perfortion technology or the “Employers, health plans mance levels in patient cost of delivering care, and hospitals need to take safety were achieved but those two factors play a role in a complex note that we have entered a by the 100 hospitals in the study that delivformula that technolnew phase in driving ered the highest balogy company Thomson transformation of the anced performance Healthcare uses to across quality, efficienmeasure the top 100 healthcare industry.” cy and financial stabilperforming hospitals – Jean Chenoweth ity, according to the on patient safety. The company released a new study last study. If all hospitals had performed at the month that reveals improvement on a level of these leading hospitals on the eight composite of eight patient safety measures patient safety measures, they would have By BerNIe MoNegaIN, Editor STAMFORD, CT l saved $253 million and 7,914 lives during that time period, the study concluded. “Employers, health plans and hospitals need to take note that we have entered a new phase in driving transformation of the healthcare industry,” said Jean Chenoweth, senior vice president in the Center for Healthcare Improvement at Thomson Healthcare. “Hospitals setting new levels of patient safety are those with the highest balanced scores across quality, efficiency and financial performance - suggesting that payers that focus narrowly on cost alone, or any other single area of performance, are less Top see page 13 http://www.HealthcareITNews.com http://www.HealthcareITNews.com http://www.healthcareitnews.com/story.cms?id=8989 http://www.HealthcareITNews.com

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