Healthcare IT News - September 2008 - (Page 1) INformatIcs: Nurses thrive in data environment page 43 Published in partnership with the neWS SourCe for healthCare inforMation teChnology n SePTeMber 2008 New Mexico healthcare goes digital Public health Agencies in New Jersey and North Carolina to receive 2008 Davies Awards. Page 28 News Department of health launches statewide system. SANTA FE, NM By riCharD Pizzi, Associate Editor iCD-10 debate Some say the 2011 deadline is too soon for ICD-10. Others see it as long overdue. Page 3 – The New Mexico Department of Health has implemented electronic medical records in all of its 49 public health offices that provide clinical services across the L. Albert Villarin Jr., MD, chief medical informatics officer, Albert Einstein Medical Center in Philadelphia, and director of medical informatics for the Department of Emergency Medicine, created a Web-based knowledge engine, which this year has evolved into its third version, managing 12 gigabytes of data for time-critical access in all emergency departments. state. The effort is part tHe News: New of Gov. Bill Richardson’s ➔ Mexico’s department of telehealth and health health adopts EHRs. information technology wHat It meaNs: ➔ initiatives. Makes possible the “New Mexico is sharing of clinical data well on its way to for better care. having providers in both the public and private sector using this rapidly the hands the state and enabling the emerging techsharing of clinical data for nology,” said better patient care.” Richardson. According to New Mexico “By advancing Health Secretary Alfredo this important Vigil, MD, public health prostrategy, the fessionals in the state have Department cared for 19,680 patients and of Health is Bill Richardson putting new tools in logged 120,524 procedures with the of our providers across neWMexiCo see page 23 Medicaid spending A new report forecasts upcoming state Medicaid spending on IT at $380B. Page 8 commeNtary IBC makes its SMART registry even smarter By Patty enraDo, Contributing Editor PHILADELPHIA – Independence Blue Cross (IBC) is adding a medication-monitoring tool to its SMART Registry to provide key data regarding medication persistence for its members with chronic conditions. With the additional data on how often patients fill their recommended prescriptions in a timely manner, primary care physicians will be able to better manage Kimberly Siejak their patients’ care. The enhancement for medical persistence gives physicians an overall view of their patients to provide continuity of care and to engage their patients, said Kimberly Siejak, manager of IBC’s Population Health and Wellness department. Health Dialog Services developed the registry concept in response to the needs of the providers it worked with, said Janet Maurer, MD, vice president and regional medical director. It partnered with IBC to deliver the reports to IBC’s providers. The SMART Registry’s reports iBC see page 36 20th century tools Barry Chaiken, MD, says financial incentives are key to adoption of 21st century technology. Page 8 HosPItaLs & IDNs it’s the law Massachusetts law to mandate hospitals, clinics use of EHRs as condition of state license. Page 14 PHysIcIaN PractIces & ambuLatory care ‘Perfect care’ Duke docs digital registry doubles ‘perfect care’ rate for patients with diabetes. Page 22 Payers Out with the paper mess Automating the ED at Albert Einstein made everything better. By Bernie Monegain, Editor PHILADELPHIA Matching data Humana uses new tech to substantiate payments. Page 34 VeNDors Wireless detector Carestream releases digital wireless radiography detector - the size of a cassette. Page 38 CliniCal toolkit Driven by data IT proves to be instrument of cultural change in hospital setting. Page 43 – There is power in data, and L. Albert Villarin, Jr., MD, is collecting it by the gigabyte and putting it to work at the Albert Einstein Healthcare Network here. The data provides key information for patient care, research, daily logs, administrative management, surge capacity control, physician benchmarking, and much more, says Villarin, an emergency physician and the chief medical informatics officer at Albert Einstein. The next step for the healthcare system will be to integrate data collected from its tracking system with the electronic health record. “We’re the only emergency department doing research using live data,” Villarin said. Other organizations base their research on chart reviews and it cannot be as accurate as live data, he said. Villarin created a Web-based knowledge engine that manages einStein see page 20 Percent eD walkout rate 4 3 3.5 2.5 2 1.5 1 0.5 0 04 05 06 07 e l Connect: gRapHS 0908 SourcE: AlbErt EinStEin MEDicAl cEntEr ManageMent Solutions Serving it up Worldwide market for x86 servers grows year over year, driven by virtualization. Page 42 www.HealthcareItNews.com MedTech Publishing Company / Vol. 5 No. 9 Government tackles medical identity theft problem By Bernie Monegain, Editor WASHINGTON – A governmentsponsored town hall meeting on medical identity theft in a digital age has been slated for Oct. 15 in the nation’s capital. The meeting, organized by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, will focus on how medical identity understanding of the meditheft should be addressed cal identity theft landscape,” in a healthcare information according to the ONC notice technology environment. of the meeting. “Public disThe meeting is schedcussion during the town uled from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 hall will feed into and supp.m. at the Federal Trade port potential recommenCommission Conference Robert M. dations for the prevention, Center. Kolodner, MD detection, and remediation “As part of ONC’s mission to assure that electronic health of this form of identity theft, leverinformation exchange is secure, this aging health IT and best practices, town hall is designed to increase iDentity see page 37 http://www.HealthcareITNews.com
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