Error measure draws critics.
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Biomedical subjects
John Morrissey
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Show them the money. Healthcare providers say it will take more than vision to turn the government's health IT plans into reality.
The much-anticipated healthcare IT plan laid out by David Brailer last week won some points for vision from providers, but they're still wondering where the money will come from. One possibility is incentives, like the "pay for performance" strategy being touted by the CMS' Mark McClellan, left.
Ambulatory Care Information Systems↗
Hits and misses. JCAHO loses money; JCR subsidiary makes a profit.
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Making a connection. Coalition issues healthcare IT infrastructure road map.
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Community Networks↗
Adopting automation. IT leaders try to establish voluntary certification.
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Ambulatory Care Information Systems↗
The process comes first. Before assembling all the pieces of a clinical IT system, know what the initiative needs to accomplish and how the technology fits in.
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Decision Making, Organizational↗
It's more than just the purchase. Make clear the commitments that it will trigger.
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Decision Making, Organizational↗
One step at a time. Preparation, orderly implementation are keys to achieving clinical, financial goals for information technology.
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Decision Making, Organizational↗
A new degree of expertise. Organizations, universities helping doctors graduate to IT proficiency.
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Ambulatory Care Information Systems↗
Taking IT to the Hill. Trade groups send troops to Washington to serve in educational, promotional roles as IT becomes a high-profile legislative issue.
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Diffusion of Innovation↗
New and improved. JCAHO's revamped report provides accreditation results in a new format.
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Accreditation↗
Questions of leadership. Survey of CIOs places lack of high-level planning, support among the primary reasons behind failure of IT projects.
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Attitude of Health Personnel↗
Adding voltage to e-records. Action by White House, HHS and standards group HL7 give electronic health records a strong jolt. Will momentum continue?
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Diffusion of Innovation↗
Too much too soon? JCAHO's proposed 2007 deadline for bedside bar-code technology has some providers scurrying, but vendors call the plan doable.
The JCAHO is proposing mandatory bar-code technology at bedside by 2007. Michael Cohen, left, of the Institute of Safe Medication Practices, says the deadline may be too soon. Others say it could be met and are starting to train staff members on the equipment. In the cover photo, workers at Vanderbilt University Medical Center learn how to operate infusion pumps that double-check dosages.
Accreditation↗
Debugging hospitals. Technology helps track hospital-acquired infections, along with the often unreimbursed costs of treating them.
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Cost Allocation↗
The HIPAA headache. It just won't go away. An exclusive survey of privacy officers says full compliance with the 1-year-old regulations is still elusive.
After a year of HIPAA, there's still some adjusting to do. Some don't grasp the value of accounting to patients about disclosures, but HHS' Richard Campanelli, left, says it offers patients reassurance that their data was safeguarded. Baylor's Donna Bowers, on the cover, says caregivers are now understanding that "Maybe (patients) do care that I'm asking all these personal questions in front of all these people."
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Dr. intimidation. Surly prescribers increase risk of errors: survey.
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