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www.HealthcareITNews.com NEWSMAKERS December 2008 ■ Healthcare IT News 25 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 people will be watching two guys from chicago p Barack Obama and CEO of the newly merged Allscripts-Misys Healthcare Solutions Glen Tullman were voted the two leaders to watch for healthcare IT advances. Obama and Tullman were neck-and-neck on this score with few others mentioned. resident-elect it, it has been reported that A few readers menhe has advised Obama on tioned the new Health his healthcare IT plan. and Human Services “Obama of course. secretary. Former Sen. Any reorganization of Tom Daschle had not yet American healthcare will been picked by Obama President-electBarackObama AllscriptsCeOGlenTullman start there,” said Mark at the time of the survey. Cress of Allscripts-Misys. Some respondents provided a named the name and left it at that. “Glen Tullman, he is a true leader reason for their choice. Most just Though Tullman has not confirmed and a visionary,” said one reader. “Certainly President-elect Obama will have a significant impact on the direction of healthcare reform, said one reader. “Bottom line is things will continue to get done community by community.” ■ More at HealthcareITnews.com e Connect: toWatcH 1208 ● Trends Continued from page 23 “Still much education is required to get the public to begin developing their own personal health records.” P4P made news in 2008 with success stories and significant return on investment for quality and incentives. In June, the Premier Healthcare Alliance reported that a P4P initiative resulted in an increase of 15.8 percent in quality throughout 250 hospitals across the country. As a joint partner in the initiative, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services awarded nearly $25 million, with incentive payments topping more than $7 million to 112 highest-performing hospitals in the third year of the initiative. Other programs, such as the one overseen by the Integrated Healthcare Association in California, have seen providers earning substantial rewards for providing quality care. Many respondents see P4P as a way to benefit all. “Finally, healthcare quality being measured by performance will increase quality, enhance outcomes and patient satisfaction,” said one respondent. Another noted, “Measurement is a wake-up call to physicians and hospitals.” While one respondent gave a nod to the value of incentives, it came with a condition: “Motivating providers by reimbursement will get results IF the reimbursement is significant enough for them to see it is worth investing in the technology and processes to improve patient care and data exchange.” ■ More at HealthcareITnews.com e Connect: treNdS 1208 ● Top sTorIes Continued from page 21 engineers and entrepreneurs might want/like; but Google has shown itself to be very smart and it will persist at it,” said Steven J. Davidson, MD, Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn, N.Y. Google and Allscripts were linked in September 2008 when Allscripts integrated its e-prescribing solution with Google Health in order to offer physicians a new means of sharing patient medication history. ■ More at HealthcareITnews.com e Connect: topStorieS 1208 ● e ● Connect: SNoMed 1208 http://www.HealthcareITNews.com http://www.HealthcareITNews.com http://www.healthcareitnews.com/story.cms?id=10543 http://www.HealthcareITNews.com http://www.healthcareitnews.com/story.cms?id=10540 http://www.capsts.org http://www.HealthcareITNews.com http://www.healthcareitnews.com/story.cms?id=10537 http://www.capsts.org http://www.healthcareitnews.com/eConnect.cms?id=10564

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