clinical applications news from FierceHealthIT

> The American College of Physicians has gotten a $50,000 grant that it plans to use to develop physician IT tools in order to support the development of the "medical home" model. Read more...

> The American College of Physicians has gotten a $50,000 grant that it plans to use to develop physician IT tools in order to support the development of the "medical home" model. Read more...

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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> The American Health Information Management Association is planning a new certification offering which will offer credentials for vendors in the healthcare privacy and security arena. Article (Modern Healthcare sub. req.)

> Think you can breeze through the National Provider Identifier rollout? Don't be fooled. A consultant explains just how …

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Hospital CIOs will have their work cut out for them in 2007. Healthcare IT News notes that a number of health systems will be tackling major projects, including rolling out physician order entry forms, boosting wireless capacity, and installing clinical applications as well as new servers. "The variety and size of the healthcare IT projects reflect industry forecasts for market growth. Recent analysis…pegs the market at about $549 million in 2005. Analysts estimate the …

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