Healthcare IT News - October 2007 - (Page 27)

www.HealthcareITNews.com October 2007 ■ Healthcare IT News 27 NEWSBRIEFS MIchIgaN phySIcIaNS to gEt E-pREScRIBINg tEchNology The Consortium of Independent Physician Associations, a collection of 38 independent physician associations consisting of 4,000 physicians throughout the state of Michigan, will deploy Rockville, Md.-based DrFirst’s Rcopia electronic prescribing technology to 1,200 of its members. The initial focus will be on installing e-prescribing for primary care physicians and large group practices. CIPA will subsidize first year costs for each physician and pay for a PDA or comparable credit towards other hardware. Is ‘free’ cheap enough for EHR licenses? By RICHaRd PIzzI, Associate Editor IllINoIS gRoup SIgNS dEal WIth athENahEalth Rush-Copley Medical Group, a multi-specialty physician network affiliated with Rush-Copley Medical Center in Aurora, Ill., has selected a practice management service from Westborough, Mass.-based athenahealth. The network will implement athenaCollector, the company’s revenue cycle management product. Rush-Copley will also be using Sunrise Clinical Manager software from Eclipsys Corporation as part of a new integrated clinical and financial ambulatory care solution. – As of Sept. 1, electronic health records vendor RemedyMD began offering free licenses for its specialty-specific EHR and practice management software to ambulatory physician practices across the country. The company claims that offering physician practices the opportunity to use its software at no charge will dramatically increase the number of practices that collect data electronically instead of using paper charts. RemedyMD specializes in predictive informatics, so data collection is critical to its business. “All we’re offering is the data collection part at no cost,” said Gary Kennedy, chairman and CEO of RemedyMD. “Some cusSANDY, UT tomers will also want the ad-hoc reporting high-quality researchable data. The Mosaic capability and business intelligence soft- platform tracks outcomes from each interware. But charging people just to collect vention event to determine the effectiveness data doesn’t make of the treatment. sense.” “This is an effort to “We believe Kennedy affirmed provide an economic that predictive that the company incentive to collect would continue to better data in order to informatics will charge for the use drive better outcomes,” tRaNSFoRM of its predictive said Michael Malone, hEalthcaRE.” informatics tools. president and COO of – Gary Kennedy Physicians who want RemedyMD. “When support, ad-hoc more practices start reporting, and sophisticated analytics will using electronic systems to capture data, pay for these products and services. using our technology to recognize patterns Earlier this year, RemedyMD released its in the data and take preemptive action Mosaic platform, which the company says becomes much more powerful.” will significantly increase the volume of fRee see page 29 MGMa goes to Philadelphia Popular CCHIT Forum on the agenda in 2007. By RICHaRd PIzzI, Associate Editor Michigan docs building HIE By RICHaRd PIzzI, Associate Editor WEB SItE alloWS NuRSES to RatE phySIcIaNS CareSeek has launched NursesRateDoctors. com, a social media networking platform focused on gathering nurse ratings and reviews of doctors. The online platform allows nurses to anonymously provide their insights on physicians to help patients who are seeking a healthcare provider. The Solvang, Calif.-based company is campaigning to get nurses to participate and to encourage their peers to collectively write one million reviews. pIttSBuRgh-aREa phySIcIaNS to gEt EhR/pM SyStEM West Penn Allegheny Health System plans to roll out an electronic health record system to the 165 physicians in its primary care network. The Pittsburgh-based health system, which admits more than 80,000 patients into its six hospitals each year, owns a primary care network of 36 physician practices. The health system will integrate an EHR system from Chicagobased Allscripts with IDX/GE’s Centricity Business, the practice management system used by its employed physicians. WPAHS hopes that linking the clinical and financial information systems will help physician practices become more productive. More at – The annual conference of the Medical Group Management Association has become a premier date on the calendars of healthcare IT vendors, say executives at the association, and attendees at the 2007 event will benefit from its industry-wide appeal. “MGMA is starting to draw almost as many IT vendors to the show floor as HIMSS does,” said William Jessee, MD, president and CEO of MGMA. “Our members will see a sold-out exhibition hall and many ITrelated breakout sessions.” The 2007 Annual Conference PHILADELPHIA The flags of many nations line the street leading to Philadelphia’s city hall. The Medical Group Management Association will hold its 2007 annual conference here. will be held Oct. 28-31 in Philadelphia. Jessee anticipates a large turnout, similar to the excellent registration numbers at last year’s show in Las Vegas. He predicts that close to 5,000 people will attend the event. “This year we have a Health Care Innovations pavilion in the mgma see page 29 – West Michigan Physicians Network, an organization of 450 physicians representing various medical and surgical specialties and practice sizes, has named a preferred healthcare IT vendor to help it create a community-wide health information exchange. The WMPN board of directors has endorsed software products offered by Misys Healthcare Systems of Raleigh, N.C., including the Misys EMR for electronic medical records and the Misys Tiger practice management system. The physician network announced that, as EMR GRAND RAPIDS, MI mICHIgaN see page 32 Docs to get ambulatory EHRs from Catholic health system By RICHaRd PIzzI, Associate Editor Medical students on patient safety Which initiatives could most positively impact reducing errors and improving patient safety? Electronic medical record system Penalty free error reporting Improved staff/patient ratios Electronic prescribing Computer order entry e ● Connect: GraPHS 1007 HealthcareITNews.com e ●Connect: PHYSICIaNS 1007 – The Sisters of Charity of Leavenworth Health System intends to offer an electronic medical record, practice management system and patient portal to community physicians as part of its new Ambulatory Electronic Health Record initiative. The Kansas-based health system will provide local physician practices with the uniLENEXA, KS fied EMR/PM software product from eClinicalWorks. The Westborough, Mass.-based vendor says that its software will interface with the SCLHS GE Centricity Enterprise hospital system and with local regional health information organization (RHIO) initiatives. SCLHS plans to make the ambulatory EHRs available to its 200 employed physicians CaTHOLIC see page 30 42% 31% 27% 18% 17% SOURCE: EPOCRATES FUTURE PHySICIANS OF AMERICA SURvEy http://www.HealthcareITNews.com http://HealthcareITNews.com http://www.healthcareitnews.com/story.cms?id=7849

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