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10 Healthcare IT News ■ July 2008 plan to deploy pay for performance broadly by 2009, which offers even more opportunities for healthcare organizations to earn significant financial rewards by creating interoperable environments. In addition, accurate and accessible patient data can decrease costs by eliminating duplicate tests, which frequently occur simply because original test results aren’t available to a physician when needed. With linked patient records, physicians can view test results from anywhere easily and quickly, eliminating the www.HealthcareITNews.com these emPI solutions serve as the foundation for helping patients receive the highest quality care possible and ensuring they are treated as valued customers. they even address physician satisfaction while allowing for more cost effective care. at the end of the day, patients can receive better care for less expense. Shouldn’t that be everyone’s goal? ■ Fernandes, vice president and healthcare industry ambassador for the Healthcare Practice at Initiate systems, Inc., is a recognized leader in the healthcare IT industry. she frequently speaks at healthcare conferences and publishes on topics such as regional health information organizations, health data exchange, patient identification issues and best practices for master patient index (MPI) cleanup. she serves on committees and workgroups for HIMss, aHIMa and eHealth Initiatives. Fernandes is a recipient of the aHIMa discovery award and CHIa distinguished Member award. MORE AT HealthcareITnews.com e Connect: FERNANDES 0708 Fernandes Continued from page 9 exchanging patient data can also positively impact pay-forperformance initiatives, which provide financial rewards for improving quality and performance. Healthcare organizations, especially those that pool patient data across the entire delivery system and demonstrate better care delivery, could potentially earn millions of dollars. the centers for medicare and medicaid Services need to order repeat tests that drive up costs and potentially compromise patient safety through unnecessary needle sticks or repeat radiation exposure. cMIos can breathe easIer Healthcare executives can breathe easier – their voices have been heard. emPI offerings are available today that integrate patient data beyond the walls of the hospital or clinic, and are faster, less expensive and more secure than many think. ● LAN of the Free. Introducing the new Welch Allyn Spot Vital Signs LXi with wireless technology. ® Now you can have the freedom you deserve—the new wireless Spot Vital Signs LXi integrates with your existing hospital infrastructure. Using Welch Allyn Connex™ Data Management System, the Spot Vital Signs LXi will wirelessly send vitals data to a range of EMRs. You choose the technology and we’ll provide the workflow that’s best suited for your hospital and your nurses, letting them wirelessly capture and document patient vitals from the bedside with no extra steps. And that’s liberating for everyone. For more information, please call 1.800.289.2500. www.welchallyn.com sIddIqI Continued from page 9 with disparate patient payment and tracking systems, and health insurance claims stored in several legacy systems cannot be accessed and shared easily. this type of environment severely hinders the productivity and efficiency of the healthcare organizations to deliver quality services to patients. Soa will provide a common platform for integration of disparate systems, provide real-time knowledge for patient care, and enable re-usable business services within the organizations in the overall “Healthcare ecosystem”, all key efficiencies organizations can realize by implementing Soa principles. How can SOA affect patient safety? Soa has a positive impact on patient safety providing real-time access to knowledge, accurate patient data on time and as needed, reduced manual data entry errors, improvements in the implementation of Post market safety surveillance programs including the tracking and dissemination of adverse event data. Where do you see SOA in the healthcare system five years from now? the full value of Soa will be realized when Soa spans the entire enterprise of locally managed, globally aware healthcare systems. I believe adoption of Soa will increase at a fast pace and organizations within the Healthcare ecosystem will be beyond optimization of their Soa strategy, and focusing on institutionalizing Soa. With the push for intelligent electronic health records, real-time access to health data and complex sets of functions needed to enable electronic quality monitoring among other initiatives, there will be a greater focus on modernization through the use of innovative BPm solutions and using Soa as a foundation to rapidly build composite applications. this will achieve standardization, reusability and simplified knowledge exchange for healthcare practitioners. ■ Editor Bernie Monegain interviewed Shamlan Siddiqi. 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