Healthcare IT News - August 2007 - (Page 15)

www.HealthcareITNews.com August 2007 ■ Healthcare IT News 15 NEWSBRIEFS OchSNER autOmatES hIRINg, StaFFINg maNagEmENt Ochsner Health System in New Orleans is automating workforce management. The health system tapped San Francisco-based eWork Inc. for online software. “eWork Healthcare streamlines the process of sourcing contract nurses and improves communications with our vendors,” said Nattie Leger, vice president, clinical operations at Ochsner. Ochsner is one of the largest healthcare systems in the region with more than 8,000 employees and the largest private employer and healthcare system in Louisiana. Indiana network delivers to EHRs By rICHarD PIzzI, Associate Editor – The Indiana Health Information Exchange and the not-forprofit Community Health Network says the IHIE’s DOCS4DOCS service is now delivering clinical results directly into physicians’ electronic health records. IHIE and Community tested this new functionality with Community’s EHR vendor INDIANAPOLIS in three different practices. the dOcS4dOcS IHIE provides the service to IHIE says that practices will service is currently major hospital systems such as Clarian Health, Sisters of continue to be added over used in 25 hospitals St. Francis Health Services, the coming months. in Indiana. Inc. , St. Vincent Health and The DOCS4DOCS service Wishard Health Services. is currently used in 25 hos“ These enhancements collect the pitals in Indiana, which send about one million messages each month to approximately test data, regardless of where they are 5,000 Indiana physicians at 1,900 practices. INDIaNa see page 17 Handling or information St. Joseph Mercy Hospital streamlines patient data in its 17 operating rooms. By Molly MerrIll, Editorial Assistant ANN ARBOR, MI – St. Joseph Mercy Hospital, a 529-bed teaching hospital, will install the ORDashboard system from Cambridge, Mass-based LiveData into 17 operating rooms in order to improve patient safety and clinical workflow, say hospital executives. “The LiveData system maximizes accurate communication. It minimizes the need for verbal communication, which is distracting during a procedure,” said Walter M. Whitehouse, Jr., MD, chairman of the department of surgery and medical director of surgical services at St. Joseph Mercy Hospital. Whitehouse emphasized that the bottom line was improved patient safety. “LiveData is uniquely positioned to bring this technology to the table with its extensive experience in the power industry,” he said. Phil Brzezinski, vice president of Healthcare Systems at LiveData, said that LiveData’s visual integration system captures, synthesizes and dis- tExaS hOSpItal OFFERS SElF-SERvIcE ER chEck-IN Parkland Health & Hospital System, based in Dallas, has installed self-service checkin kiosks in the emergency room to speed the delivery of care and streamline registration processes. The technology, called MediKiosk, is provided by Florida-based Galvanon, a subsidiary of NCR Corp. Three self-service check-in stations are available to patients in both English and Spanish. “My hope with this system is that we can provide a more comfortable check-in process,” said Jennifer Sharpe, director, emergency services at Parkland Hospital. Panel urges hospitals to do NPI now By DIaNa MaNos, Senior Editor FAIRFAX, VA Electronic boards on the walls of the OR at Memorial SloanKettering Cancer Center in New York, shown above on first day of use, are the same purchased by St. Joseph Mercy Hospital. OklahOma hOSpItal pOISEd tO gO papERlESS Comanche County Memorial Hospital, a 283-bed facility in Lawton, Okla., will spend about $13 million in efforts to go paperless and boost patient safety. The hospital recently selected a wide range of technology developed by McKesson Corp. The goal is to create a single, secure EHR flowing across hospital departments and local physician offices. Under terms of the multi-phase initiative, the hospital will deploy a combination of the Horizon Clinicals suite, along with resource management systems and information technology services. plays patient information in the OR through a flat panel display, which can also be accessed on the web from anywhere in the hospital. “There exists this great information [in hospitals], yet it is trapped in systems, and we bring it out and make it usable,” said Brzezinski. Brzezinski said that he is very excited about LiveData’s implementation at SJM because the hospital has, “moved into a tier where the true need lies.” He added that SJM has the same needs as bigger hospitals, such as Massachusetts MICHIgaN see page 16 – Providers should not procrastinate using National Provider Identifiers, according members of the Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services began dissemination of national provider identifier numbers Aug. 1 on its Web site By Aug. 7, CMS planned to make available a downloadable file containing all provider information that the agency believes it can legally release. Marty Jensen, co-chair of WEDI’s business sub-workgroup, said most providers think of the NPI transition as a regulatory compliance issue that won’t have any impact until the enforcement date next May 23. NPI see page 16 New Jersey hospital automates – Bayshore Community Hospital, a 225-bed acute care facility will add new technology to support several patient safety initiatives. “Everyone at Bayshore is focused on providing high quality outcomes for our patients and their families, while educating our community how to change their lives for improved health and wellness,” said Raimonda Clark, the hospital’s president and CEO. “Clinical solutions that help our healthcare team provide better patient care, also help to HOLMDEL, NJ hospital use of healtcare It Percent of hospitals reporting they have fully or partially implemented various clinical IT functions - N=1,500 community hospitals FauquIER tO pull mEdIcatION INFO IN aNd Out OF hOSpItal Executives at Fauquier Health System in Warrenton, Va. say Fauquier will be the first health system in the nation to pilot an electronic medication reconciliation system aimed at improving patient safety by automatically incorporating a patient’s current prescription information into the hospital environment. Fauquier will use RcopiaAC (Acute Care), a Web-based application created by DrFirst, to track both internal and external records. More at HealthcareITNews.com e Connect: HoSPItaLS 0807 recruit and retain exceptional staff and medical professionals,” Clark added. Bayshore will roll out Sunrise Clinical Manager, developed by Boca Raton, Fla.-based Eclipsy. The platform will make it possible for clinicians to obtain a single view of their patients’ data. Bayshore will integrate evidence-based clinical content into its care delivery processes. The hospital will also implement financial management technology from Eclipsys. ■ More at HealthcareITNews.com e Connect: BaYSHore 0807 Results review, lab Results review, radiology report Order entry, lab Order entry, radiology Results review, radiology images Order entry, pharmacy e l Connect: GraPHS 0807 78% 77% 72% 70% 64% 61% AMERICAN HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION SURVEy - FALL 2006 l l http://www.HealthcareITNews.com http://www.HealthcareITNews.com http://www.HealthcareITNews.com http://www.healthcareitnews.com/story.cms?id=7541 http://www.healthcareitnews.com/story.cms?id=7594 http://www.healthcareitnews.com/story.cms?id=7540

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Contents AHIC Redux IT Saving Lives IT, Wal-Mart Style OR Workflow Counting on Quality PHR Position Tapping Talent Slimming Down E-Prescribing Claims Processing

Healthcare IT News - August 2007

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