Healthcare IT News - October 2008 - (Page 26)

26 Healthcare IT News top 26 hoSpItalS ■ October 2008 hoSpItalS & IdNs www.HealthcareITNews.com top chIldREN’S hoSpItalS ➔ Children National Medical Center, Washington, DC ➔ Children’s Hospital Boston ➔ Children's Hospital of Michigan, Detroit ➔ Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center ➔ Rainbow Babies and Children’s Hospital, Cleveland ➔ Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC ➔ Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt, Nashville, Tenn. ➔ Mayo Clinic Hospital (Phoenix, Ariz.) ➔ California Pacific Medical Center (California, Davies, Pacific Campuses) (San Francisco) ➔ Kaiser Permanente Bellflower Medical Center (Bellflower, Calif.) ➔ Kaiser Permanente Harbor City Medical Center (Harbor City, Calif.) ➔ University of California UCI Medical Center (Orange, Calif.) ➔ Evanston Hospital (Evanston, Ill.) ➔ Northwestern Memorial Hospital (Chicago) ➔ Sinai Hospital (Baltimore, Md. ) ➔ University of Maryland Medical Center (Baltimore, Md. ) ➔ Detroit Receiving Hospital & University Health Center (Detroit, Mich.) ➔ Harper-Hutzel Hospital, Detroit (Detroit, Mich.) ➔ Henry Ford Macomb Hospitals, Clinton Township (Clinton Township, Mich.) ➔ Saint Mary’s Health Care, Grand Rapids (Grand Rapids, Mich.) ➔ Sinai-Grace Hospital (Detroit, Mich.) ➔ University of Michigan Hospitals & Health Centers (Ann Arbor, Mich.) ➔ Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital (New Brunswick, N.J.) ➔ University Medical Center at Princeton (Princeton, N.J.) ➔ NYU Hospitals Center (New York) ➔ Summa Health Systems Hospitals - Akron City Hospital (Akron, Ohio) ➔ The Christ Hospital (Cincinnati) ➔ University Hospitals Case Medical Center (Cleveland, Ohio) ➔ Lehigh Valley Hospital (Allentown, Penn.) ➔ Lehigh Valley Hospital Muhlenberg (Bethlehem, Penn.) ➔ Virginia Mason Medical Center, Seattle (Seattle, Wash.) leaPfrog Continued from page 22 ■ How well do hospitals perform seven complex high-risk procedures and care for high-risk deliveries? ■ Are hospital intensive care units (ICUs) staffed by qualified specialists? ■ Do hospitals have safety practices and policies advocated by the National Quality Forum to reduce harm and errors? A recent study published in the June issue of the Journal on Quality and Patient Safety revealed that high-performing hospitals on the Leapfrog Hospital Survey have lower mortality and better quality of care than lower-performing or non-participating hospitals. ■ More at HealthcareITNews.com e Connect: LeaPFroG 1008 l kICkBaCk Continued from page 21 of hospital assistance,” said Joy M. Grossman, senior researcher and coauthor of the study with Genna Cohen, a research assistant at the center. The federal physician self-referral and anti-kickback laws are intended to prevent hospitals from offering financial incentives to physicians in return for patient referrals to their hospitals. Under the exceptions passed in August 2006, hospitals can subsidize up to 85 percent of the upfront and ongoing costs of EMR software and related information technology support services for physicians. Physicians must pay the full cost of any hardware, and the exceptions are scheduled to sunset on Dec. 31, 2013, when physicians must assume any ongoing EMR costs. ■ More at HealthcareITNews.com e Connect: KICKBaCK 1008 l uPMC Continued from page 21 modules along with English and a team at Emmi Solutions. The patient can absorb the information in the comfort of her home. When she is ready to talk with a physician, the focus can be on pertinent concerns. Physicians at the hospital-owned practice are encouraged to prescribe the Web sessions to their patients. It’s part of a ninepoint system on which they are evaluated for bonuses, and it represents a little over 3 percent of their bonus. Patient feedback has been positive, English said. The Web sessions are more valuable and cogent than the “mumbo jumbo that we sometimes put on paper.” Emmi CEO Jordan Dolin says 75 departments at UPMC use Emmi educational modules, accounting for about 700 physicians. An Emmi client service representative is on site full time. ■ More at HealthcareITNews.com e Connect: uPMC 1008 l e l Connect: SSI 1008 http://www.HealthcareITNews.com http://www.HealthcareITNews.com http://www.healthcareitnews.com/story.cms?id=10063 http://www.HealthcareITNews.com http://www.healthcareitnews.com/story.cms?id=10060 http://www.thessigroup.com/pearl http://www.thessigroup.com http://www.thessigroup.com http://www.HealthcareITNews.com http://www.healthcareitnews.com/story.cms?id=10058 http://www.healthcareitnews.com/eConnect.cms?id=10089

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