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WebMDs Parent Reinvents Itself
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Hutchinson Lands as CEO for Start-up Prematics |
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Tenet Q&A: Clinicians Critical to HIT Deployment Success |
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CIO Roundtable Maps out 2008 Imperatives |
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UPMC Tackles Record Duplication with New EMPI |
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WebMDs Parent Reinvents Itself
Again
By Neil Versel, contributing editor
On Monday, Elmwood Park, N.J.-based HLTH Corp. announced that it had sold off its remaining 48 percent interest in Emdeon Business Services (Nashville, Tenn.) to private investors General Atlantic and Hellman & Friedman for $575 million in cash. General Atlantic had bought 52 percent of Emdeon, a health care revenue cycle management firm and transaction clearinghouse, in November 2006 for $1.2 billion. More...
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Hutchinson Lands as CEO for Start-up Prematics
By Neil Versel, contributing editor
Less than two weeks after stepping down as chief executive of SureScripts, Kevin Hutchinson has landed as president and CEO of ePrescribing start-up Prematics Bethesda, Md.), where he will attempt to jump-start physician adoption of the technology. More...
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Executive Q&A
Clinician Involvement is Critical to Successful HIT Deployment
By Cindy Atoji
Liz Johnson, Tenet Healthcare's VP of clinical informatics helped lead the deployment of multiple clinical systems across Tenet's many hospitals. Today the clinical application suite of products for Tenets 72 provider organizations includes over 3,000 clinical applications and 5,000 custom interfaces. Johnson is also on the board of director of HIMSS (Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society). Digital HealthCare & Productivity spoke with Johnson about Tenets team-based approach to process redesign and how to develop a comprehensive clinical informatics vision and strategy.
DHP: Tenet has made significant progress in delivering physician-friendly tools, from physician portals, PACs, scheduling, and document imaging. Whats the thinking behind this clinical information roadmap?
JOHNSON: Weve chosen a strategy that enhances the foundation of applications across various ancillary departments and facilities, whether its pharmacy or radiology, to interface electronically and make the information more congruent across the database, closing the loop with information systems talking to each other. More...
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CIO Roundtable Maps out 2008 Imperatives
By Adam Stone
Linking business and clinical technology systems, dealing with data security, and coping with new government requirements lead the list of 2008 challenges according to a roundtable of health care CIOs held last week and moderated by HIMSS Analytics President and CEO Dave Garets. The discussion was sponsored and hosted by Picis.
Participating in the wide-ranging discussion were Novant Health CIO Richard McKnight; Sharp HealthCare CIO William Spooner; Saint Barnabas Health Care System CIO Joseph Sullivan; and William Olser Health Center CIO Judy Middleton. Perhaps not surprisingly this year, concerns about business issues shared center stage with questions of technology. More...
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Case Study
UPMC Tackles Record Duplication Challenge with New EMPI
By Adam Stone
On December 15, 2007, following two years of preparation, the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center went live with a new enterprise master person index (EMPI) from Initiate Systems. The goal is to boost efficiency and improve patient care by stripping out hundreds of thousands of duplicate records from throughout its many data systems.
Part of the challenge was coping with UPMCs daunting size. It serves more than 4 million patients each year in 29 western Pennsylvania counties and has 45,000 employees, 20 hospitals, 400 physician offices/outpatient centers, and a health plan. In a typical year, UPMC has more than 167,000 inpatient admissions, 3 million outpatient visits and 400,000 emergency visits annually. More...
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Deals, Deployments, and Short News
By Allison Proffitt, Digital HealthCare & Productivity staff
Essentris wins DoD approval; RadarFind and CenTrak offer real time location systems; personal health record news from OptumHealth and the American Health Information Management Association. More
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| TOP STORIES FROM AROUND THE WEB |
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Study Questions Impact of Quality Report Cards
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HLTH Sells Its Emdeon Stake
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Wisconsin Seeks Changes to Health Data Privacy Laws
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2008 IT Spending Forecast Again Cut by Forrester
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Children's Hospital in Omaha Improves Management of Data Warehouse
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Memphis Chosen by HHS to Help Create 'Travelocity of Health Care'
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California Healthcare System to Offer EMR System to Docs
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Battle Between Best-of-Breed and Sole Source Continues
Given all the consolidation among health-IT suppliers in the last few years, more than a few big guns have assembled true, end-to-end integrated clinical and management systems. Yet the ongoing national push for data and interoperability standards means it easier than ever to knit together best-of-breed solutions in Lego-like fashion. More
IT Outsourcing: A Game of Specialization and Global Reach
The low hanging fruit was harvested in the first wave of healthcare-IT outsourcing. Now, national and global companies report the biggest opportunities lurk in niches. Moreover, traditionally entrenched players like EDS and Oracle are ceding ground to new global companies, say observers. More
EHRs Forge Links to Practice Management S/W
Electronic health records are gaining ground, but slowly. Conversely the practice management software market, though unexciting, is steady. Efforts are now on to fuse the two. More
Trends in Medical PCs, PDAs, and Portable Workstations
Do healthcare professionals in your organization want laptop computers? Tablet PCs? Plain old desktop machines? Personal digital assistants? Sure. All can work just fine in clinical environments. More
Wireless Technology Use Jumps in Hospitals
While adoption of many health-IT technologies has stalled, the use of mobile and wireless technology has soared and the choices are proliferating. More
Does Asset Tracking Live Up to the Hype?
Asset tracking has become a hot technology. Indeed, makers of RFID systems just one of the technology choices claim to provide near instantaneous ROI. Whats the real state of the market? More
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Bio-IT World proudly introduces Life Science Webcasts -- a series of informal conversations with leading researchers and executives in the bio-IT and biopharma arena. This week, Dr. Jerald Schindler (VP, late stage clinical development statistics, Merck) discusses e-clinical research with Bio-IT World's Kevin Davies.
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| SGI's Meeting Today’s Computational Needs for Science
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Global pharmaceutical company improves the accessibility and intellectual property managment of drung candidate data with Waters® NuGenesis® SDMS software.
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