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16 Healthcare IT News ■ August 2007 hOSpItalS & IdNs www.HealthcareITNews.com John Muir Health signs AT&T networking deal By rICHarD PIzzI, Associate Editor MICHIgaN Continued from page 15 – John Muir Sigma Group - 276191 Health has signed a new optical networking services contract with AT&T. Project: Panasonic Under the five-year contract, AT&T Campaign: Healthcare will serve as the primary networking Creative:services provider for the health sysPAN2093 Imitations AE: Scott Lifschin tem, connecting one of John Muir’s more remote locations to the main data center in Walnut Creek. AT&T OPT-E-MAN service – a managed, switched Ethernet netWALNUT CREEK, CA work service – will provide secure claim that by using a unified net- hensive health care provider with Ship Info: Healthcare IT News Publication: Healthcare IT News will communications between John work platform the health system Pinelandtwo northern California medical 71 Dr. IO #: None Muir Health’s main campus and be able to support multiple business centers, the John Muir Medical Ste 203 Issue: August applications, such as electronic med- Center-Walnut Creek Campus, a the remote facility. New Gloucester, ME 04260 Ad Type: Island Single AT&T says that OPT-E-MAN ical records, as well as remote access 321-bed medical center that serves Attn: Karen Diekmann | MedTech Publishing bleed = 8.375 in X 10.875to patient health information and in as Contra Costa County’s only desservice is scalable and flexible in trim = Mbps 10.625 medical images for radiology. Company ignated trauma center; and John bandwidth from 10 8.125 in Xto 1 in t: 207-688-6270 f: Medical Center-Concord safety 7 in X 10 in AT&T says that the software Muir None Gbps. The redundant =service will support doctors and health care will provide reliable transport and Campus, a 251-bed medical center B: 8.375 in practitioners from any location enhanced security across John in Concord. ■ throughout the network. T: 8.125 in Muir’s converged network. More at HealthcareITNews.com S: 7 in John Muir Health is a compre- lConnect: MUIr 0807 Officials at John Muir Health e Panasonic recommends Windows Vista™ Business. General and NewYork Presbyterian, but may have fewer resources to make it available. Brzezinski insists that LiveData can integrate all of SJM’s information into one location to make it more usable. The hospital’s implementation training plan will begin with a 30hour orientation for clinicians a week before implementation. This session focuses on the benefits of having the dashboard in the OR. The morning of go-live SJM will offer a 45-minute orientation familiarizing the OR staff with the dashboard’s features. LiveData will also provide a team that will “hang out” in the OR for about a week to offer one-on-one instructions to the staff. LiveData hopes to have the system up and running by the end of 2007. LiveData’s OR-dashboard costs approximately $25,000 per operating room, but integration costs vary depending on the hospital, said Brzezinski. St. Joseph Mercy Hospital, and the St. Joseph Mercy Health System generally, are currently building an overarching IT system with Cerner that will be up in about 24 months, according to Whitehouse. ■ More at HealthcareITNews.com e Connect: MIcHIGaN 0807 l NPI Continued from page 15 PRESENTING THE NEW TOUGHBOOK 52. When you develop a laptop this innovative, other companies are bound to copy you. We can’t name names, but the truth is, if it’s not a Toughbook ®, it’s not the real deal. We built the semirugged Toughbook 52 to deliver industry-leading uptime in the ofﬁce or out—it’s wireless-ready with a shock-mounted hard drive, magnesium alloy case, spill-resistant keyboard—even a handle for greater mobility. The one and only Toughbook 52. The latest in a long line of rugged originals for which there is no substitute. panasonic.com/toughbook/healthcare 1.800.662.3537 THE RUGGED ORIGINAL. “The world will not stand still for the next 10 months,” Jensen said. “Medicare will be moving forward and many other payers will be following Medicare’s lead.” The Medicare contingency plan, which required all providers to start using NPIs in good faith since May 23 of this year, is intended for working out the kinks, Jensen said. Jensen said there are already signs of claims processing showing negative impact from the NPI transition, and that have at times held up crossover claims for days. Jensen has received anecdotal reports from some providers who say they have double-checked their NPI numbers for accuracy, yet still their claims were denied.Suzanne Stewart, EDI coordinator at Aurora Health Care in Milwaukee, said there are a number of ways providers can reduce the risks to accounts receivable while transitioning to NPI. One is to validate ahead of time whether all trading partners are ready to send and receive using NPI. Stewart said Aurora has not quantified the impact of its NPI transition yet, but so far it has extended staff resources, including project managers, office staff and others who have been involved in testing and implementation of the NPI project. ■ B: 10.875 in T: 10.625 in More at HealthcareITNews.com e Connect: NPI 0807 S: 10 in e l Connect: PaNaSoNIc 0807 Intel, Intel logo, Intel Centrino, Intel Centrino logo, Intel Inside, Intel Inside logo and Pentium are trademarks or registered trademarks of Intel Corporation or its subsidiaries in the United States and other countries. Toughbook notebook PCs are covered by a 3-year limited warranty, parts and labor. To view the full text of the warranty, log on to panasonic.com/business/toughbook/support.asp. Please consult your Panasonic representative prior to purchase. ©2007 Panasonic Corporation of North America. All rights reserved. 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