Healthcare IT News - October 2007 - (Page 1)

PHILLY BOUND: AHIMA PAGE 4 MGMA PAGE 27 in conference Published in partnership with THE NEWS SOURCE FOR HEALTHCARE INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY ■ OCTOBER 2007 Headliners Revolution Health CEO Steve Case and Freakonomics co-author Steven D. Levitt to keynote in Orlando. PAGE 35 NEWS Med students call for more IT BY RICHARD PIZZI, Associate Editor PROVIDENCE, RI Global harmony Groups from around the world have joined to create common healthcare informatics standards. PAGE 3 ‘Romantic notion’ of medicine seen as major barrier to getting rid of paper. Telegrowth Datamonitor says the telehealth market is growing by leaps and bounds. PAGE 6 COMMENTARY New rules Two consultants say it’s time for a rules change when rolling out healthcare IT applications. PAGE 15 HOSPITALS & IDNs Keeping tabs Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center has a new tool to help assess each of its buildings. PAGE 19 PHYSICIAN PRACTICES & AMBULATORY CARE A medical school student, left, works under the supervision of a faculty member at the Warren Alpert School of Medicine at Brown University in Providence, R.I. Some medical students say they would welcome more opportunities for healthcare IT training. – Students at the Warren Alpert School of Medicine at Brown University believe that healthcare IT can contribute greatly to the future of medical care, as do many of their fellow medical students around the United Neel Shah States. But do U.S. medical schools do enough to train students how to use IT? Results from the 2007 “Future Physicians of America” survey, released this summer by San Mateo, Calif.-based Epocrates, revealed that more than 75 percent of medical students think formal STUDENTS see page 28 What’s free? A Gartner analyst notes that software licenses represent just 10 percent of the cost of an EHR. PAGE 27 PAYERS PHR of its own UPMC Health Plan’s home-grown PHR gains traction. PAGE 43 VENDORS Dell makes ‘broad play’ for healthcare BY ERIC WICKLUND, Managing Editor Taking aim at brain tumors opened in February this year. The new technology – The radiation therapy department at went online about two months ago. Intermountain Medical Center is To date, it has been used to treat two “Tumor volume can offering a fully automated technology to three patients per week, said Bob to treat brain tumors that makes it be deﬁned remotely, Mendenhall, administrative director, possible for radiologists to collaborate radiation therapy at Intermountain. but the treatment and create treatment plans, remotely. occurs at the facility.” Intermountain Medical Center T he L eksell Gamma Knife is the largest hospital in the – John Crudo Perfexion Technology is located in Intermountain West and the Intermountain Medical Center the radiation therapy department, new flagship of Intermountain housed in the Jon and Karen Huntsman Cancer Healthcare. It is the third institution in the United Center on the campus of Intermountain. The center TUMORS see page 20 BY MOLLY MERRILL, Contributing Writer MURRAY, UT Intelligent dosing New Web-based application enables people with diabetes to determine the best insulin dose. PAGE 49 CLINICAL Toolkit Paper tiger Document imaging companies say their future is secure. PAGE 56 MANAGEMENT Solutions Practice Management Integration with electronic medical records is key to linking business side with clinical side. PAGE 54 www.HealthcareITNews.com MedTech Publishing Company / Vol. 4 No. 10 – The Baby Boomer generation is getting older, and Dell ﬁgures they’ll be needing more than just personal computers. With the healthcare ﬁeld getting more complex and crowded, the PC giant has laid out ambitious plans to help America get quality care. Long known for its work in the provider segment, Jamie Cofﬁn Dell is launching a “partner ecosystem,” a series of partnerships with healthcare information technology vendors designed to rival the efforts of bigtime players Siemens, Cerner and McKesson. ROUND ROCK, TX PLAY see page 50 New York Blues ﬁghts fraud BY PATTY ENRADO, Contributing Editor ROCHESTER, NY – As part of its plan Need to know Consumers are looking for information to help them make healthcare decisions 64% Answers to questions from sources other than their doctors. lent activity in the pharmacy sector because it paid out $1 billion, or to crack down on claims one-ﬁfth of its total payout, scams, the special invesin 2006 for prescription tigations unit of Excellus drugs, said Flora Allen, corBlueCross BlueShield porate director of Excellus’ is deploying a new onspecial investigations unit. demand anti-fraud service In addition, CMS requires Mark Ramsey by IBM. greater fraud identiﬁcation Excellus will focus on fraudu- from providers of Medicare Part D beneﬁts. The on-demand service is new, but it leverages technology and expertise that larger payers have already been utilizing for years, according to Mark Ramsey, global FRAUD see page 44 88% Information about treatment options. 81% Information about physicians or hospitals. e ● Connect: GRAPHS 1007 SOURCE: BLUE CROSS AND BLUE SHIELD ASSOCIATION (2006) http://www.HealthcareITNews.com

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Healthcare IT News - October 2007

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