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Leapfrog names top hospital safety performers

September 25, 2008 — 1:26pm ET | By Anne Zieger
Leapfrog Group has named 33 hospitals to this year's list of its top safety performers, a number that has shrunk from prior years as the ratings organization has gotten tougher. This year, 26... Read more...

SPOTLIGHT: How to succeed with EHRs

March 27, 2007 — 8:01pm ET


Not sure your physicians will buy in to your EHR rollout? It's a reasonable fear. After all, they may not feel ready for the changes EHRs will require them to make. But a physician leader who's been there--and achieved 100 percent adoption of a CPOE system--suggests that if executives take the right steps, they can virtually guarantee that their EHR implementation will succeed. Column

Survey: Health IT on the rise in hospitals

February 27, 2007 — 8:01pm ET

A new survey of 1,500 community hospitals conducted by the American Hospital Association has found that, despite barriers such as cost and integration, implementation of health IT is on the rise in hospitals. Nearly half of all surveyed hospitals reported moderate or high use of health IT in 2006, compared to a response of 37 percent in 2005. Large, urban and teaching hospitals are at the forefront of this movement. In addition:

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SPOTLIGHT: UPMC rolls out CPOE system, critics watch closely

June 18, 2006 — 8:01pm ET


The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center health system is rolling out a new CPOE system at one of its hospitals despite a study last year that found that found unexpectedly negative side effects of an earlier rollout at Children's Hospital. Dr. Eugene Wiener said, "I don't believe a single patient died because of this, and all of our data show that medication errors significantly decreased each year after implementing the system." Article

Trinity calls a halt to $315 million EMR project

March 8, 2006 — 8:01pm ET

The Michigan-based Trinity Health System says it is temporarily stopping its $315 million electronic medical records implementation. The effort, dubbed "Project Genesis," will eventually upgrade IT services at 23 Trinity-operated hospitals. No word on exactly what is going on, but Trinity says the pause is so the system can study the project's impact on "clinical processes for disease conditions." Says PR guy Kevin DiCola, "we'll be so much better with our implementation by taking a step …

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ALSO NOTED: Prescription sales up 5.4 percent in 2005; CDHP members see reduced medical costs; and much more...

February 22, 2006 — 8:00pm ET

> In a new report, market intelligence specialist IMS Health says U.S. prescription drug sales grew 5.4 percent to $251.8 billion in 2005. Since January, IMS reports 18 million prescriptions have been filled under Medicare Part D. Release

> Supporters of consumer-driven health plans are pointing at a recent internal study conducted by CIGNA that finds that patients who …

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Study assesses physician use of support systems

February 14, 2006 — 8:01pm ET

A new study examines the way physicians use clinical decision support systems, looking at the factors which cause them to ignore system alarms and prompts. The research, which appears in BioMedCentral and Medical Informatics, concludes that most doctors welcome the technology, albeit with some reservations. About 80 percent, however, say they tend to ignore alarms when they are in a hurry.

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Cerner joins billion-dollar club

February 2, 2006 — 8:01pm ET

Cerner said late yesterday its revenue has reached the $1 billion mark. The maker of hospital electronic medical records and CPOE systems for hospitals and physician practices said revenues for new bookings were up $386.3 million in the last quarter, an increase of 58 percent. The company adjusted its earnings forecast for next quarter, saying it expects to make 26 cents to 27 cents per share, lower than the 29 cents per share analysts had wanted. Wall Street is not happy about the news. …

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Editor's Corner

January 12, 2006 — 8:01pm ET

Friday the thirteenth may be a good day to talk about mistakes. The title of the 1999 IOM report on medical errors reminds me of a joke--"to err is human, but to really foul things up takes a computer." This month we have news of two national-scale IT implementations with significant problems. The first is the Medicare Part D system where needed coverage and benefit information …

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Benefits of interfacing computers to medical devices

January 4, 2006 — 8:01pm ET

Cain Medical CEO Nicholas Cain gives a quick run down of the advantages of connecting medical devices to electronic medical records systems and CPOE systems in a guest Op-Ed on the Health Care IT Guy's blog. His list of advantages for doing this in the ICU setting includes increased efficiency, reduced transcription errors during the data collection process, improved diagnosis support and the ability to remotely monitor patients. As Cain points out, there is no need to wait for these …

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