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Healthcare IT News ■ October 2008 industry news www.HealthcareITNews.com of medical identity theft with contracted help from consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton. The idea is to evaluate the scope of the problem and figure out how healthcare IT can detect and prevent it. A town hall meeting is slated for Washington D.C. on Oct. 15. AHIMA representatives will respond to questions from the Seattle convention goers immediately after. The time is set for 3:30 p.m. in Room 319. have highlighted for discussion are personal health records; patient information; privacy and security; the legal EHR; and professional certification. AHIMA will continue its PHR campaign into 2009, said Kloss. The focus will be on healthcare literacy as a means of raising healthcare consumer involvement. On Oct. 15. Don Mon, AHIMA vice president of practice leadership, will lead an expert panel on PHRs. Other key events include presentations by Lori Evans of the New York State Health Department and Kerry Weems, acting administrator for CMS. Evans will speak about state solutions for improving healthcare delivery. Weems will provide a federal update on healthcare reform. Both are slated to speak on Oct. 14. ■ More at HealthcareITNews.com e Connect: aHIMa 1008 ICd-10 front and center at aHIMa Association CEO Linda Kloss is an enthusiastic proponent of ICD-10 coding. The conversion of ICD-9 codes to ICD-10 is expected to generate plenty of anxiety and heated discussion at the 2008 convention this month. As Kloss sees it, ICD-10, which includes about 10 times the number of codes in the ICD-9 system, would Linda Kloss allow for the measurement of quality patient care and the international exchange of information on public health, pandemic and research that will help make policy and care decisions. a meriCan health infOrmatiOn Management aHIMa Continued from page 3 However, other organizations – the Medical Group Management Association, the American Medical Association and Blue Cross Blue Shield Association among them – say the Oct. 2011 deadline proposed by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid is too soon. MediCal identity theft The Office of the National Coordinator has taken on the issue More highlights Other topics AHIMA officials Cart Mobility Meets Omnicell Reliability ● PHr Continued from page 6 vice president and chief medical information officer at the Palo Alto Medical Foundation, and chairman of Project HealthDesign’s National Advisory Committee. Patricia Flatley Brennan, national program director and professor of Nursing and Industrial and Systems Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said the research program challenged grantees to “aggressively push the boundaries” of how PHRs could be used. COMPACT MOBILE CART “with companies like Microsoft and google entering the personal health space we’re likely to see a thriving marketplace of tools and applications that help people make sense of their health information and act on it.” – Stephen Downs “It’s a simple but radical idea to think that the technology for using your personal health record should be separated from the record itself,” said Stephen Downs, senior program officer and deputy director of RWJF’s Health Group. “Through this program, we’re showing that the record can serve as a platform, upon which developers can build compelling applications to meet consumers’ diverse health goals and needs.” “With companies like Microsoft and Google entering the personal health space and offering PHR platform services, we’re likely to see a thriving marketplace of tools and applications that help people make sense of their health information and act on it,” Downs added. ■ More at HealthcareITNews.com e Connect: pHr 1008 ©2008 Omnicell, Corp. All rights reserved. Omnicell Compact Mobile Carts are the Perfect Balance Between Point-of-Care and Point-and-Click. IT specialists appreciate the reliability, simple set-up, optimized power system, and 24x7 customer support. Nurses admire the compact maneuverability, stability, ease-of-use, easy-to-disinfect cart with electronic height adjustment. Call for Demo: e ● Connect: oMNICell 1008 ● http://www.HealthcareITNews.com http://www.HealthcareITNews.com http://www.healthcareitnews.com/story.cms?id=10040 http://www.omnicell.com http://www.HealthcareITNews.com http://www.healthcareitnews.com/story.cms?id=10046 http://www.healthcareitnews.com/eConnect.cms?id=10070 http://www.omnicell.com

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