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ALSO NOTED: WellPoint exposes patient data; ED visits go up when OR trims Medicaid rolls; and much more...

April 25, 2008 — 6:59am ET
> Security pros are lambasting WellPoint, which may have inadvertently allowed Web users to access data on 130,000 of its beneficiaries. Read more...

State auditor to study Iowa IT break-in

January 30, 2007 — 8:01pm ET

Iowa state officials are looking further into the source of a recent break in to University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics IT system. The school apparently believes that it was a university employee who broke into the school's system.  In the wake of this incident, however, UIHC believes that it needs to the take stronger measures to prevent this from happening again. For that reason, UIHC has invited state auditor David Vaudt to increase means of access to the hospital's information …

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ALSO NOTED: Debate over HPV vaccine; Specialty hospitals blossom in WI; and much more...

November 8, 2006 — 8:01pm ET

> Do girls really need to get the cancer-fighting HPV vaccine Gardasil if they're too young to be sexually active? Some parents are struggling with the idea. Article

> Planners in Wyoming debate the effects of a new wave of specialty hospitals emerging in the state. …

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Study: US providers lag in evening care, IT use

November 2, 2006 — 8:01pm ET

A new study comparing care trends in seven countries suggests that U.S. providers are behind on several measures of business and clinical efficiency, including technology adoption, after-hours availability and chronic disease management. To learn more about international differences in provider practices, the Commonwealth Fund surveyed 6,000 primary care physicians across Australia, Canada, Germany, the Netherlands, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and the United States. Researchers found …

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McKesson acquires RelayHealth

June 11, 2006 — 8:01pm ET

There was a big healthcare IT deal in the Bay area today as McKesson announced that it has bought RelayHealth. The company is probably best known for WebVisits, popular software that allows patients to exchange messages with providers over a secure internet connection. Providers who use RelayHealth's system typically bill patients for an "online consultation" or e-consult, allowing them to seek reimbursement from insurers.

Despite reluctance on the part of some doctors, online …

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San Diego: Heart attacks only to cath-lab hospitals?

May 8, 2006 — 8:01pm ET

San Diego is considering a new system that would require ambulances to take patients experiencing serious heart attacks only to hospitals that have catheterization labs on site to insure that potentially-life saving treatment is given quickly. Currently, all but two of San Diego County's hospitals are failing to get patients into the cath lab within 90 minutes, which considered the standard by most experts.

"The way it is now, it's a free-for-all. Anybody goes anywhere, and …

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Senate report raises questions about QIOs

March 6, 2006 — 8:01pm ET

The government's system of investigating complaints related to Medicare is "broken" and of "no help" for improving care quality, an investigation by the Senate Finance Committee found. Committee Chairman Charles Grassley (R-IA) sent a letter to senior Medicare officials on Monday recommending major reforms to the program. Medicare relies on private contractors known as quality improvement organizations (QIOs) to investigate complaints. The Washington Post reports that QIOs …

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Interoperability key trend at HIMSS

February 14, 2006 — 8:01pm ET

Tuesday at the HIMSS show was all business, with a multitude of new product releases and alliances announced. While no one human could cover everything in such a mammoth show, a key trends is interoperability, which may be moving a little past the hype. Every vendor I spoke with described how they were integrating their product with everyone else's system. No one wants to be an "island" of information any more.

Two other important trends are automation of high acuity areas like the …

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HIMSS: A view from the floor

February 13, 2006 — 8:01pm ET

HIMSS appears to be getting bigger and bigger. There are 23,500 people here and over 800 exhibitors, but segregation is the watchword. The big guys are downstairs in the main exhibit hall, while the smaller companies are in an upstairs gulag. Cerner has perhaps the most interesting approach, taking a huge space in the middle of the hall, but featuring its clients rather than itself. Several other big companies are hosting smaller ones, with Microsoft devoting seemingly all its space to …

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SPOTLIGHT: Bay Area PHR drive

January 8, 2006 — 8:01pm ET

The Palo Alto Medical Foundation is running one of the more successful personal health record pilots in the country. PAMF says it has signed up 54,000 people to use it's system--impressive numbers indeed. But all the more impressive when you take into account the fact that 50,000 people have logged in to use the system, according to Paul Tang, the group's CIO. Blog

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