Healthcare IT News - December 2008 - (Page 17)

www.HealthcareITNews.com December 2008 ■ Healthcare IT News 17 NEWSBRIEFS UNIv. oF MISSoURI, CERNER BooSt MEdICal HoME ModEl The College of Healthcare Information Executives (CHIME) recently recognized MU and Cerner with the Collaboration Award for their work to create a medical home for patients treated by MU family medicine physicians. By June 2009 all UM family medicine practices will use the medical home model to track the treatment of patients with the 12 most common chronic illnesses. Currently, 46 physicians in MU’s Family and Community Medicine department are using the medical home model to treat patients with chronic conditions. eHealth group to aid in EHR plan. By Molly MerrIll, Associate Editor DUNGANNON, VA Change in the works Telehealth provides help with neurology shortage By Molly MerrIll, Associate Editor ROWLETT, TX – Finding certified neurologists is becoming more difficult as many hospitals face shortages in all areas. Through a service called Specialists on Call, some hospitals are getting neurologists to the patient’s bedside – fast. Westlake Village, Calif.-based Specialists On Call Inc. (SOC) provides trained specialist physicians on call 24/7 to urban, suburban and critical access hospitals using videoconferencing technology. According to CEO Joe Peterson, MD, there are about 40 neurologists on staff, serving about 60 private community hospitals. The SOC neurologists use videoconferencng technology from New York-based TANDBERG. TeleHeAlTH see page 19 MICHIgaN PHo to IMPlEMENt PatIENt REgIStRy The Wexford-Mercy PHO, a not-for-profit physician hospital organization based in Cadillac, Mich., is implementing a patient registry system to improve quality outcomes and care delivery. Wexford-Mercy physicians and other healthcare providers will use a Web-based registry system from Atlanta-based WellCentive to track patients with chronic health conditions and manage preventive care initiatives. The WellCentive Registry will be used at the point of care and for patient population management oHIo PRogRaM HElPS PHySICIaNS adoPt EMRS The Ohio State Medical Association says its Standards of Excellence Program has helped save time and money in helping its physicians adopt electronic medical records. The program, a collaboration between OSMA and The Coker Group, an Alpharetta, Ga.-based healthcare consulting firm, recognizes EMR vendors that voluntarily agree to amend their contracts with OSMA member practices to include an approved list of terms and conditions that will help guarantee that physician rights are protected in the contracting process. The vendors also provide OSMA members with preferred pricing. – The Community Care Network of Virginia (CCNV), a network of 22 Federally Qualified Health Centers, is about to choose a patient kiosk system for its centers and completing an electronic health record rollout. The projects’ initial costs were covered by grants CCNV received from Health and Human Service’s Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA). David Selig, CEO of CCNV, says he and his team have narrowed the patient kiosk vendors to four. “One of our challenges is to marry content needs with the best vendor,” he says. “One of the things we have learned about kiosks is that when you just go out to market to look for vendors, the real guts of what they provide is the content that the patients see.” CCNv see page 18 Percentage of ER directors paying specialists more to be on call General Surgery Orthopedics Neurosurgery Psychiatry Gastroenterology e ● Connect: GraPHS 1208 25% 20% 30% 16% 30% 12% 7% Docs like blogging platform By Molly MerrIll, Associate Editor WARREN, RI – Blogging is becom- SOURCE: AMERICAN COllEGE OF EMERGENCy PHySICIANS 2005 Using telehealth technology, neurologists can help quickly diagnose a patient in the ED who may be experiencing stroke symptoms. EHR/PM SyStEM to CoNNECt CHICago PHySICIaNS Edward Hospital & Health Services, a regional healthcare provider in Naperville, Ill., is developing a hospital-based community model that will connect its physicians electronically. Edward will roll out an electronic health record and practice management system to more than 50 of its physicians and mid-level providers. Another 40 affiliated providers will implement just the practice management component. More at HealthcareITNews.com e ●Connect: PHYSICIaNS 1208 to public health. Coming in at what was wrong with healthcare, number 11 under the category of Poses found a common thread. ing a major tool for the aver- ethics was Poses’ “Health Care Most everyone complained of badly run healthcare age person to convey his/her Renewal” blog. organizations, someP o s e s is the ➔ thoughts to the world. Its infortHE NEWS: Docs are blogging about thing he says is not mal platform is ideal for com- president of FIRM: healthcare concerns. normally addressed municating ideas from politics F o u n d a t i o n in healthcare literafor Integrity and ➔ to the politically incorrect. WHat It MEaNS: Readers get objective ture. This is why Roy Poses, MD, Responsibility in info. on issues like Scot Silverstein, decided to create a blog that Medicine, a not-forethics and HIT failure. MD, a senior mediprofit eduwould “address threats cal informatics specational to healthcare’s core valfoundation devoted to cialist at Drexel University in ues, especially those upholding medicine’s Philadelphia, blogs for the site stemming from concore values. He practices about failures in information centration and abuse general internal medicine technology. This is also an issue of power,” perhaps not and, as he says, “sees first not covered in literature, says the most popular issue Roy Poses, MD hand the primary care Silverstein. Silverstein began to talk about, but one collecting information on these he believes will garner an audi- crisis every week.” Poses says 10 years ago he and types of incidents and had them ence. In September 2008 a nurs- many of his colleagues felt there posted on a static Web site. He ing Web site called RNCentral. was something “increasingly” says he began to receive mail com rated the 100 best health- wrong in healthcare. After con- from around the world that care policy blogs from pediatrics ducting a crude study that asked BloGGING see page 18 New vacation homes get IT By Molly MerrIll, Associate Editor PARADISE VALLEY, MT – About 300 new vacation homes being built on 1,000 acres in the Upper Yellowstone region of Montana will be supplied with emergency medical services. Developers of the Ameya Preserve will provide emergency medical services via phone, Internet or bi-directional video to all residents and employees and their families. Telemedicine firm SwiftMD will provide the community with 24/7 access to a network of emergency trained, board-certified doctors, as the nearest medical facilities is 45 minutes away. More at HealthcareITNews.com e Connect: vaCatIoN 1208 ● http://www.HealthcareITNews.com http://www.HealthcareITNews.com http://www.HealthcareITNews.com http://www.healthcareitnews.com/story.cms?id=10534 http://www.healthcareitnews.com/story.cms?id=10535

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