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www.HealthcareITNews.com NEWSMAKERS December 2008 ■ Healthcare IT News 23 The P e o Ple , S To r i e S a n d i n n ovaT i o n S o f 20 0 8 top trends: pHrs, p4p runaway favorites HE GROWTH of pay-forperformance programs and personal health record initiatives being developed by the likes of Microsoft and Google ranked as the runaway top two trends by Healthcare IT News readers, with 28.5 percent and 27.5 percent of t By paTTy enrado, Contributing Editor the vote, respectively. Support for the two trends has grown in 2008, and the trends are poised to be even bigger forces in 2009. Announcements of PHR initiatives showed up on the radar screen in 2007, and in 2008 IT companies and the federal government announced partnerships for realworld use of their applications. The biggest initiative to date was the November announcement of the Medicare launch of a PHR pilot in Arizona and Utah, involving vendors Google Health, HealthTrio, NoMoreClipboard. com and PassportMD. “PHRs seem to provide a more intuitive solution to managing patient information,” said one survey respondent. The Medicare PHR pilot is focusing on consumer control and choice, but some respondents are concerned with the privacy and security of health information. “Although development of PH records is very important in 2009, the public at large is still not comfortable with the sharing of PHI,” the respondent said. Trends see page 25 Whileacknowledgingit’snotaplace,voters couldn’thelpbutvotefortheAllscriptsmisysmerger,whoseexecutivesareshown aboveringingtheopeningbellatNasdaqon Oct.28,2008. plaCes Continued from page 22 vendors for e-prescribing, which the respondent said “will be (the) single most significant change in the next year.” The Allscripts-Misys merger was selected by many as “one of the biggest occurrences of the year.” Although the merger isn’t a place, one respondent noted that between the two vendors, “one in three physicians and one in five hospitals have their products.” “This merger with Allscripts Misys has to be a beginning of all good things,” said one respondent. “Anywhere where the EHR is becoming reality,” another respondent said. That thinking accounted for votes for such health systems as the Cleveland Clinic and Children’s Hospital in Boston. There were several votes for respondents’ own practices. “I am trying to assist the hospital in using a platform such that it can be directly connected to my EMR system so that my dictations and patient data can be entered directly into my server and allow quick access,” one respondent said. “My own hospital,” another respondent said. “We are a small critical access hospital in Illinois and are in the beginning stages of implementing an EHR. So far – so good!” Finally, some respondents paid homage to the Internet. “With Microsoft’s HealthVault and Google’s forays into health information, the Internet seems to be the place where all health information will someday live and, therefore, be discoverable by any hacker worth his salt,” wrote one respondent. ■ More at HealthcareITnews.com e Connect: placeS 1208 ● e ● Connect: iNgeNix 1208 http://www.HealthcareITNews.com http://www.ingenix.com/informationis http://www.ingenix.com/informationis http://www.HealthcareITNews.com http://www.healthcareitnews.com/story.cms?id=10539 http://www.healthcareitnews.com/eConnect.cms?id=10562

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Healthcare IT News - December 2008

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