Healthcare IT News - September 2007 - (Page 1)

at rIsk: Healthcare data everywhere page 50 Published in partnership with THE nEwS SouRcE foR HEAlTHcARE InfoRMATIon TEcHnoloGy n SePTeMber 2007 IT in the sun Chicago-based HIMSS officials are already preparing for warmth and sunshine in February. PAGE 31 News E-prescribing center launched projects that lead to real results.” The center is a collaborative project of SureNational Governors Association State Alliance Scripts, the American Academy of Family Phyfor eHealth meeting that it has teamed with a sicians, Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association, broad coalition of industry partners Humana, Inc., the Intel Corporation and to launch The Center for Improving the Medical Group More on electronic Medication Management. Management prescribing, According to SureScripts, the cenAssociation. pages 5, 24 ter will operate as a research-orientThe project has REPORT been in the works for more than a year, ed “center of excellence” and pursue “unique and creative ways to improve the over- Hutchinson said, and the founders want the all safety, quality and efficiency of the patient center to focus on the broad dissemination of medication management process.” best practices for the deployment of information “We’re hoping to do something that hasn’t technology that electronically links physicians, been done before,” said Kevin Hutchinson, cEnTER see page 28 CEO of SureScripts. “We don’t want this to be simply a ‘think t a n k ,’ w h e r e w e debate things like the value of standards. A new research center will focus on increasing physicians’ adoption of electronic prescribing. We want to create By PATTy EnRADo, Contributing Editor Allscripts. With its user-friendly CHICAGO – Payers are testing and ASP model, NEPSI has removed adjusting their e-prescribing pro- two barriers. grams using two separate NEPSI developed a By BERnIE MonEGAIn, Editor The telemedicine program models. self-funding mechanism KANSAS CITY, MO – St. Luke’s Health offers patients in rural parts of While some are subsiwhereSystem is planning to expand its the state access to specialists dizing software, hardware by payexisting telemedicine offerings to in the metro area. It saves both and training, others are ers, who REPORT b e n e fi t include additional specialties. patients and physicians travel providing incentives for The health system will add ENT, time and cost. The savings can be physicians through the National from e-prescribor ear, nose and throat, and urol- $80 to $120 for patients who live e-Prescribing Patient Safety ing formular y ogy specialties to its list of other 50 miles or more from the metro Initiative, or NEPSI. Still oth- compliance and telehealth specialties – cardiology, center, said Steve Kropp, director ers are pursuing both models for generic use, give Glen Tullman pulmonary, mental health, and the of outreach services at St. Luke’s. wider coverage. physicians incentives for adoptrecently added neurology. And, for most patients, it means The three barriers to e-pre- ing electronic prescribing. St. Luke’s Health System less time off work. scribing are cost, training and “The issue is getting physicians includes 11 hospitals and several Moreover, most patients would no provider incentives to adopt, to continue to use e-prescribing,” MoDEl see page 39 practices in the Kansas City metro have a two or three month wait said Glen Tullman, CEO of area and the surrounding region. TElEHEAlTH see page 18 By RIcHARD PIzzI, Associate Editor BURLINGTON, VT – SureScripts announced at the Alaska sweep The 49th state became the 50th state to remove barriers to electronic prescribing. PAGE 5 SPECIAL HITN SiCKO debate Healthcare IT News readers are split on Michael Moore’s latest film. PAGE 9 commeNtary Data exchange Rx eHealth Initiative CEO has just the right formula for health information exchanges. PAGE 13 HosPItaLs & IDNs payers test e-prescribing with variety of models SPECIAL HITN EDITH knows Midland Memorial’s OpenVista system - called EDITH – seems to do everything right. PAGE 17 PHysIcIaN PractIces & ambuLatory care St. Luke’s expands telehealth Hold that script Research at Everett Clinic shows handwritten prescriptions prone to error. PAGE 24 Payers Breathing easy Pilot improves asthma care for children. PAGE 40 VeNDors IT on the menu Software enables patients to order meals via TV. PAGE 43 pano Logic takes ‘drag’ from desktop By ERIc wIcklunD, Managing Editor clInIcAl Toolkit Ambulatory EMRs Uptake is high for practices of 100 or more physicians. PAGE 48 MAnAGEMEnT Solutions Identity crisis Patient data continues to be vulnerable to identity thieves as much information is there for the taking. PAGE 50 www.HealthcareItNews.com MedTech Publishing Company / Vol. 4 No. 9 About the size of a deck of cards, the Pano device connects a keyboard, mouse, display, audio and USB peripherals to applications running on a virtualized server. – No CPU? No software? No problem. That’s the thinking behind Pano Logic’s unveiling of the Pano device, an all-hardware, no-software desktop tool designed specifically for server-based desktop virtualization. About the size of a deck of cards, the device connects a keyboard, mouse, display, audio and USB peripherals over an existing IP network to an instance of Microsoft Windows Vista or MENLO PARK, CA Windows XP running on a virtualized server. “You put all the desktop operating systems on top of the server,” explains Nick Gault, CEO of the Menlo Park, Calif.-based company. “Since everything can run there … all of the other stuff is unnecessary. It’s drag. It’s stuff that has to be updated (and) patched.” “You don’t need an operating service there on the desktop,” he adds. “You just need the ability to plug in your peripherals.” Pano’s product is being touted as an upgrade to thin-client PCs now sold by Hewlett-Packard, Wyse Technology and NEC, as well as PC blades offered by ClearCube Technology. DEVIcE see page 44 Urban hospitals and EHRs Urban hospitals more likely to have electronic records than their rural counterparts. 1,500 communitY HoSpitAlS SurVeYeD in tHe FAll oF 2006 77% 58% 61% 53% 5% e l connect: gRapHS 0907 16% Source: AmericAn HoSpitAl ASSociAtion http://www.healthcareitnews.com

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Contents Alaska Sweep SiCKO Debate Data Exchange Rx EDITH knows Hold That Script IT in the Sun Breathing Easy IT on the Menu Ambulatory EMRs Identity Crisis

Healthcare IT News - September 2007

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