Healthcare IT News - April 2008 - (Page 31)

www.HealthcareITNews.com April 2008 ■ Healthcare IT News 31 NEWSBRIEFS EMC to BuIld platFoRM FoR FINNISh hEalth aRChIvES The EMC Corporation of Hopkinton, Mass., will be providing the information infrastructure solution for the new national patient record archives being built by the Social Insurance Institution of Finland (KELA). EMC will supply its Documentum, Symmetrix and Centerra products to manage all content on the “KanTa” eHealth archiving system, which is expected to serve as many as 300,000 healthcare providers in Finland. An electronic prescription system will be up and running this year, and a patient record and image archive is expected to be online by 2009. IBM strengthens access management Encentuate purchase boosts company’s SSO portfolio. By ErIC WICkluNd, Managing Editor ARMONK, NY – Identity and access management issues are never easily resolved in hospitals, where doctors and nurses move from station to station and floor to floor. And while older, legacy based systems require the user to stay at one computer terminal to access information, newer, single sign-on solutions permit the user to log on at one place and still have access while moving around. IBM, one of the larger players in the healthcare field, recently made a push toward mobility with the acquisition of Encentuate, a three-year-old, Redwood City, Calif.-based startup whose products are focused on SSO and strong authentication technology, coupled with audit and reporting capabilities. “The market is always increasing and getting more complex,” said Joe Anthony, program director for security and compliance management at IBM’s Tivoli software division, which focuses on identity management. “The breadth of systems that people are trying to deal with (in healthcare settings) makes it a challenge. We thought we could use the additional services.” aCCEss see page 33 Doctations tells docs: Do everything online By ErIC WICkluNd, Managing Editor Combining OLD and NEW A majority of hospitals (58 percent) don’t have an up-to-the-minute picture of their patient flow operations, nor do they have bed management software or technology in their facility (60 percent). Healthcare executives report staff currently track patients and manage beds with a combination of old and new technologies, including MCKESSoN, CloRox tEaM up to FIght hoSpItal INFECtIoNS McKesson Provider Technologies has announced a partnership with The Clorox Company to develop and promote disinfection protocols for mobile equipment and handheld electronic devices, including wheeled computers, tablet PCs, mobile medication cabinets and hand-held barcode scanners. The protocols will be integrated into McKesson’s Patient Care Advantage software solution. MEdaptuS addS SolutIoNS to Md. aNdERSoN’S platFoRM MedAptus, a Boston-based provider of point-of-care charge capture technologies, has announced the addition of Facility Charge Capture and Infusion Services Module to the software platform being used at the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston. Facility Charge Capture, which allows for the management of all technical charges, and Infusion Services Module, which provides automatic coding and charge capture after nurses input infusion services delivered, are add-ons to the Facility Charge Capture platform, which M.D. Anderson has been using since 2005. When Google announced plans in late February to collaborate with Ohio’s Cleveland Clinic on a pilot program to make medical records available online, the news didn’t go unnoticed on New York’s Long Island. A group of doctors there have been working on just such a program for several years. Doctations, Inc. last year unveiled DocPatient.com, a Website designed to bring healthcare providers, their patients and service providers together in a secure environment to enter and share information. The five-year-old company aims to be the antithesis of the EMR, offering all services GARDEN CITY, NY – on an outsourced basis through a series of Web browsers. “With this system, all the data is online,” said Louis Cornacchia III, MD, the company’s president and CEO. Louis Cornacchia Cornacchia feels that most of the functions of the traditional EMR can be outsourced, including transcription, scheduling and billing. By connecting to a Web-based infrastructure – what he calls a “Web-Integrated Healthcare Community” – doctors can focus on the sharing of medical data with their patients. Basic services are provided doCumENTs see page 32 N = 200 SoURCE: STATCoM 2007 NATIoNAL SURvEy oN PATIENT THRoUgHPUT AND CAPACITy CHALLENgES e ● Connect: GraPHS 0408 Dictaphone makes the connection with Veriphy By ErIC WICkluNd, Managing Editor BURLINGTON, MA – TEPR looks to rebound in 2008 By ErIC WICkluNd, Managing Editor t MEdINotES, aKaMaI to oFFER EhRS to haWaII phySICIaNS The MediNotes Corporation, a West Des Moines, Iowa-based provider of electronic health record systems, is teaming up with Akamai Practice Management, LLC, a practice management and reimbursement service provider for independent physicians in Hawaii. The partnership will allow MediNotes to increase its EHR foothold in Hawaii, particularly among small, independent practices. In addition, the two companies have joined the Hawaii Medical Service Association’s Initiative for Innovation and Quality, which provides assistance to physicians looking to acquire EHR systems. More at HealthcareITNews.com e Connect: VeNDorS 0408 Nuance Communications has introduced a new solution designed to bridge the gap between the lab and the electronic medical record. Nuance’s Dic taphone Healthcare Division has rolled out the Vocada VeriphyReady HL7 Integration Server (VIS), which allows Vocada Veriphy, the company’s critical test result management (CTRM) solution, to communicate directly with internal diagnostic systems vErIpHy see page 33 ● YPE THE LETTERS “TEPR” into a search engine and you’ll likely come up with two items: The Towards the Electronic Patient Record conference and a French electronic musician. It’s not known if French electronica is making any inroads in the American music scene, but the TEPR conference, now in its 24th year, could use a revival. And that’s exactly what C. Peter Waegemann has in mind when TEPR 2008 opens this May in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. “The focus had always been on EMRs (electronic medical records),” said the CEO of the Boston-based Medical Records Institute, which organizes and hosts TEPR. “They’re still at the heart of things, but there is a revolution going on in health- care right now, and we need to focus on that.” TEPR 2007, held last May in Dallas, drew an estimated 2,500 attendees and vendors and a fair amount of criticism. Bloggers and healthcare journalists who covered the conference said it was underwhelm- Attendees visit the show floor during TEPR’s 2005 annual conference and exhibition in Salt Lake City, Utah. ing. That prompted MRI to, as Waegemann puts it, “take a hard look at TEPR altogether.” “No one should expect the same thing this year,” he said. “This conference is going to give people fresh ideas.” To that end, TEPR organizers TEpr see page 32 http://www.HealthcareITNews.com http://www.HealthcareITNews.com http://www.healthcareitnews.com/story.cms?id=9030

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