Healthcare IT News - September 2008 - (Page 26) 26 Healthcare IT News September 2008 ■ PhySIcIaN PRactIcES & amBulatoRy caRE lion to $50 million. The ROI will be measured in recovering space, reduction in staff, and time saved chasing information. Allscripts’ Clinical Quality Solution will make it possible for physicians to gather data for payfor-performance programs, and it will also give them disease management capabilities they have never had before. The CQS application provides a dashboard on the electronic record showing how each patient is doing against standards of care as measured by pay-for-performance programs. Typically, quality initiatives are measured after the fact, said Glen Tullman, Allscripts CEO. CQS, he said, “measures what do I need to do to meet that quality metric.” As Patefield envisions it, Novant physicians will be providing their patients with the best care possible. “Our overriding goal is to be able to get the data and improve patient care,” he said. ■ More at www.HealthcareITNews.com large medical practice of 300 physicians into one that is much Continued from page 22 larger today, yet connected to the physicians a year. He figures the organization, the leadership and implementation will be complete in to their bottom line. As leaders, Patefield said, “we’ve the first quarter of 2010. However, he notes that Novant come a long way. We enjoy a large is growing. When the health sys- degree of credibility.” Patefield and others are banktem first contemplated EHRs for its physicians, there were 400 in ing on that credibility as Novant the medical group. Today there once again connects physicians, converting many of them from are 1,050. TSFinal:Layout 1 8/21/08 much time Page 1 Novant has invested 11:43 AM paper to digital records. He estiand effort in transforming what mates the total capital expendiin the 1990s was a dysfunctional ture for the project at $40 mil- NovaNT Connecticut docs to get subsidized EHR – The Hartford Healthcare Corp. plans to take advantage of recent changes to the federal Stark regulations to subsidize an electronic health record system for 200 physicians in affiliated medical groups. HHCC will deploy the Electronic Health Record from Chicago-based Allscripts for 50 physicians in Hartford Medical Group – an a HHCC subsidiary – and another 150 physicians affiliated with its hospitals. HHCC will cover most of the cost of the EHR, and provide implementation services and front-line technical support for physician practices. HARTFORD, CT More at HealthcareITNews.com e ●Connect: NovaNt 0908 HealthcareITNews.com e ●Connect: Hartford 0908 It could happen sooner than you think. SNOMED Clinical Terms® (SNOMED CT®) enables the safe, accurate, and effective exchange of health information. Nine countries* are supporting its use. Are your systems ready? duaP Continued from page 22 SNOMED Terminology Solutions SNOMED Terminology Solutions (STS) is the world’s leading and most trusted resource for SNOMED CT® expertise and advice. To help you implement SNOMED CT®, STS offers a broad spectrum of consulting services and products—Clinical Informatics Consulting/Mapping, Technical Consulting, and Education. Learn how STS can help you achieve semantic interoperability for your electronic health record and other health information technology systems. TM Expert Advice. Expert Implementation. Expert Education. *Member countries of the International Health Terminology Standards Development Organisation® (IHTSDO®). CAP STS is the original creator of SNOMED CT® and has fostered its development for more than 40 years. Today, on behalf of the IHTSDO®, STS continues to develop and maintain SNOMED CT®. SNOMED CT and IHTSDO are registered trademarks of the International Health Terminology Standards Development Organisation. e ● Connect: SNoMed 0908 expand the registry into preventive healthcare tracking and monitoring.” DUAP uses a DocSite registry with Decision Support tools, supplied by Raleigh, N.C.-based DocSite. According to John Haughton, MD, DocSite’s CEO, registries are typically less expensive than EMRs and are designed to let physicians get easy access to continuity of care records. “Some of the barriers related to healthcare IT adoption are about risk,” John Haughton, said Haughton. MD “Registries have some value propositions that make them low risk. Physicians can generally keep their current office practices in place after implementing a registry.” A report from the Boston-based Center for Information Technology Leadership showed that chronic disease registries might provide savings that will produce a positive return on investment for physicians. More importantly, CITL estimated that registries would reduce diabetes-related mortality by 710,000 over 10 years of full implementation. “At the national level, electronic diabetes registries are the only form of information technologyenabled diabetes management we found to be costbeneficial when adopted for patients with Type 2 diabetes,” said Blackford Blackford Middleton, CITL Middleton chairman. ■ More at HealthcareITNews.com e ●Connect: duaP 0908 www.capsts.org snomedsolutions@cap.org 800-323-4040 ext. 7700 http://www.HealthcareITNews.com http://HealthcareITNews.com http://www.healthcareitnews.com/story.cms?id=9895 http://HealthcareITNews.com http://www.healthcareitnews.com/story.cms?id=9899 http://www.capsts.org http://HealthcareITNews.com http://www.healthcareitnews.com/story.cms?id=9892 http://www.capsts.org http://www.healthcareitnews.com/eConnect.cms?id=9948
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