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NY-area hospitals testing smart cards

June 24, 2007 — 8:01pm ET

Over next 18 to 24 months, a group of New York area hospitals will be pilot-testing smart cards that can carry the equivalent of 30 pages of medical records. The hospitals, which include Mount Sinai Medical Center, Jersey City Medical Center, Queens Hospital Center, Cabrini Medical Center and several others, plan to hand out 100,000 of the cards, that were developed by Siemens Medical Solutions. Siemens is actually subsidizing the initial round of cards, not to mention the hardware and …

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Case study: Partners invests in SOA

June 17, 2007 — 8:01pm ET

Working with Siemens Medical Solutions, Boston-based Partners HealthCare has decided to make a substantial investment in service-oriented architecture. Over the next 12 months, the health system will work its medication, problem and eventing services into the new architecture, using the Siemens Soarian SOA platform. This despite the fact that CIO John Glaser considers SOA to be "over-hyped and still immature." "I believe that SOA...is a very profound shift in the way that we think about …

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Case study: TX network subsidizes physician EMRs

June 10, 2007 — 8:01pm ET

Here's the story of how one south Texas health system has responded to new federal guidance making it clear that non-profits can help doctors acquire EMRs. Valley Health Care Network, a physician-hospital organization affiliated with Valley Baptist Health System of Brownsville, TX, has begun subsidizing EMR rollouts among participating physicians. To take part in the the program, physicians must agree to use GE Healthcare's Centricity EMR, which is already in place within the system's …

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Health systems seek better user access control

May 28, 2007 — 8:01pm ET

With HIPAA requirements upping the ante, health IT administrators must take the issue of user access control even more seriously than their colleagues in other enterprise IT environments. Increasingly, health systems are being forced to throw additional resources at the problem, conducting frequent privacy audits that look closely at user access permissions. User accounts that remain active after employees leave are a predictable--yet still vexing--problem HIT admins struggle to address. …

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Case study: Cerner builds EMR, portal in small town

April 8, 2007 — 8:01pm ET

Cerner was looking for just the right environment to pilot-test its health portal and EMR: a town with less than 50,000 people, a single healthcare system and leading clinic and a wealth of broadband connections. It found its target in Winona, Minnesota, which now plays host to Cerner's IQHealth portal. The portal offers not only EMR access for professionals, but also consumer access to EMR data, PHR capabilities, physician visit scheduling functionality and a wealth of educational …

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Case study: FL hospital goes all-digital

April 1, 2007 — 8:01pm ET

When Baptist Health South Florida set plans to rebuild Homestead Hospital, execs decided to go first class. The new 120-bed facility, which is costing Baptist $135 million, replaces an aged, overcrowded building with little capacity to survive the region's occasionally violent hurricanes. In addition to being built to withstand a Category 5 storm, the new facility is designed with IT in mind. Features will include a direct connection between radiology department and the rest of the …

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Case study: WI hospital portal improves access

April 1, 2007 — 8:01pm ET

When IT managers at Milwaukee's Children's Hospital and Health System got started with development, all they had in mind was a single-sign in project that would simplify access to the hospital's many clinical applications. Over time, however, they realized that aggregating data from those applications was just as important. To launch the project, which took two years to implement, Children's spent about $500,000, including $300,000 in development costs. IT managers found it relatively …

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New Orleans clinics connect to charity hospitals

March 18, 2007 — 8:01pm ET

Despite the widespread disorder in the healthcare system in New Orleans, at least one aspect of the system is working better than in many other parts of the country. Since 1999, a group of outpatient clinics for the uninsured has run a federally-funded network linking the clinics with the hospitals, saving a great deal of time and money which used to be wasted in the past. Previously, when doctor at the Daughers of Charity clinics wanted to order hospital-based tests such as mammograms or …

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Duke launches doctor-patient portal

February 25, 2007 — 8:01pm ET

Duke University has decided to streamline its relationship with doctors and patients, building a web portal which it intends to see become a central hub for such communications. Its "Healthview Portal" is designed to serve the roughly 400,000 to 500,000 patients using its three major hospitals and 100 outpatient clinics. The portal was developed by IBM, which used a SOA strategy for systems integration. It took about 14 weeks to complete the project, which was built on the IBM WebSphere …

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Case study: IT use keeps solo doc afloat

February 25, 2007 — 8:01pm ET

Dr. Gordon Moore was unhappy with the high volume of patients he was required to see as a staff physician in a hospital-owned medical practice--30 plus a day, each of whom only got 15 minutes of his time. Unwilling to keep that pace up, in 2001 Moore took out a $15,000 business loan and opened his own one-man practice. He's not alone. While no one has exact statistics, a growing number of doctors are following his model, building tiny but high-tech practices that allow them to work on …

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