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New Orleans clinics connect to charity hospitals
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 …
Duke launches doctor-patient portal
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 …
Case study: Nurses drive MSHA EMR project
While it wasn't always the case in the past, nurses are playing an increasingly large role in shaping and rolling out EMR systems. That was definitely the case at Mountain States Health Alliance (MSHA), which was aggressive enough to begin moving from paper records to EMR in 2001. MSHA's network includes 11 hospitals with 1,462 beds, 21 primary care centers and 13 outpatient clinics.
While physicians often run EMR deployments, this time chief nursing executive Kathryn Wilhoit …
ALSO NOTED: EHR software delays; The risks of telemedicine; and much more...
> The Department of Health and Human Services has once again delayed the release of its free EHR software, putting the release date on hold indefinitely, a department official said recently. VistA-Office, based on the wildly successful EHR system developed by the Department for use in VA hospitals and clinics, was supposed to be released in July, and then rescheduled for release in August. At this point, who knows when it will hit the streets? …
