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4 Healthcare IT News ■ December 2007 industry news www.HealthcareITNews.com cchIt gives its seal to six EhRs for hospitals By erIC WICKLUND, Managing Editor rUraL Continued from page 1 – Roughly one out of every four vendors offering electronic health record products for acute care hospitals have now been certified by the Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology. Products offered by six EHR vendors have demonstrated compliance with the certification commission’s published criteria. Four CHICAGO have been deemed fully certified: • Computer Programs and Systems, Inc.’s CPSI System 15, • Eclipsys Corp.’s Sunrise Acute Care 4.5 SP4, • Epic Systems’ EpicCare Inpatient Spring 2007, and • Healthcare Management Systems, Inc.’s Healthcare Management Systems 7.0. Two others – Prognosis Health Information Systems’ ChartAccess 1.0 and Siemens Medical dors have been certified, Solutions’ Soarian Clinicals and compared that number 2.0C5 with Siemens to the 10 percent of ambuPharmacy and Medication latory EHR vendors that Administration Check 24.0 were certified during the – have been ruled pre-marinitial round of inspections ket, conditionally CCHIT in 2006. “We are off to a alisa Ray certified. great start with certificaAlisa Ray, the commission’s tion of EHR products for hospiexecutive director, said her organi- tals,” she said. ■ zation was pleased that a quarter More at HealthcareITNews.com of the nation’s inpatient EHR ven- ●Connect: CCHIt 1207 e LAN of the Free. Introducing the new Welch Allyn Spot Vital Signs LXi with wireless technology. ® Now you can have the freedom you deserve—the new wireless Spot Vital Signs LXi integrates with your existing hospital infrastructure. Using Welch Allyn Connex™ Data Management System, the Spot Vital Signs LXi will wirelessly send vitals data to a range of EMRs. You choose the technology and we’ll provide the workflow that’s best suited for your hospital and your nurses, letting them wirelessly capture and document patient vitals from the bedside with no extra steps. And that’s liberating for everyone. For more information, please call 1.800.289.2500. www.welchallyn.com the meeting of the American Health Information Community, held in Chicago in conjunction with the annual conference of the American Medical Informatics Association. “With the pilot program, the commission will be taking a major step toward the goal of connecting healthcare facilities across the nation with one another through broadband telehealth networks,” he said. The initiative can help advance the Nationwide Health Information Network. Martin estimated that, over the three-year life of the program, it would ultimately enable connections with about 6,000 healthcare providers. The FCC last year launched a pilot program to provide funding for as much as 85 percent of an applicant’s cost of deploying a dedicated broadband network to connect healthcare providers in rural and urban areas within a state or region. Some 81 regional and state health networks submitted applications, he said. The healthcare facilities qualified to participate in the pilot program would be able to use funding to leverage existing telehealth networks or build new, comprehensive systems for telehealth projects. ■ More at HealthcareITNews.com e Connect: rUraL 1207 ● MaNos Continued from page 3 don’t think this is fast enough. However, what good are certified products if doctors don’t use them? Doctors haven’t made much headway in healthcare IT adoption over the past year, according to preliminary results from a survey conducted by Massachusetts General Hospital Institute for Health Policy. Members of a federal advisory panel, the American Health Information Community, want to know why the government isn’t going to push adoption harder, or at least pay for it. “It’s clear why the results are poor,” according to panel member Charles Kahn III, president of the American Federation of Hospitals. “For most physicians, it’s not someone else’s money – it’s theirs.” Me a nw h i l e , t h e Fe d e ra l Communications Commission announced a $400 million rural broadband telehealth network pilot that will connect some 6,000 healthcare providers, and the Department of Health and Human Services announced it would launch a widespread demonstration initiative rewarding some 1,200 doctors to adopt electronic health records. HHS Secretary Michael Leavitt called these “a steady march of successes.” Give that man a glass. ■ More at HealthcareITNews.com e Connect: MaNoS 1207 Advancing Frontline Care™ e ● Connect: WeLCHaLLYN 1207 ©2007 Welch Allyn MC4788 ● http://www.HealthcareITNews.com http://www.HealthcareITNews.com http://www.healthcareitnews.com/story.cms?id=8183 http://www.HealthcareITNews.com http://www.healthcareitnews.com/story.cms?id=8175 http://www.welchallyn.com http://www.HealthcareITNews.com http://www.healthcareitnews.com/story.cms?id=8180 http://www.healthcareitnews.com/eConnect.cms?id=8238 http://www.welchallyn.com

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