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NewsHIMSS: Poor data access impedes hospital quality efforts
Three-fourths of respondents to a new HIMSS survey on clinical transformation--most of them executives of hospitals or healthcare systems--said that their organization has created or is establishing Read more...
CSC: Start planning ACOs now
Though the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act doesn't take full effect until 2014, right now is the perfect time for providers to start developing Accountable Care Organization plans, Read more...
CMS developing 'meaningful use' guidance to remove contradictions
It was inevitable, given the short timeline and the apparent seat-of-the-pants nature of the rulemaking process, but CMS is preparing a guidance document intended to clarify several details and fix Read more...
Criticisms of final 'meaningful use' rule start to emerge
The final rules on "meaningful use" of EMRs have been out for about a week and a half now. While the early responses were overwhelmingly positive, some criticisms have started to surface now that Read more...
FDA evidence shows the downside of poorly implemented CPOE
This shouldn't surprise veterans of the health IT industry, but a review of FDA reports by the Huffington Post Investigative Fund shows that poorly implemented CPOE systems can lead to fatal medical Read more...
'Stage 7' hospital CIO frets about quality reporting
In January, Citizens Memorial Hospital in Bolivar, Mo., became the first rural hospital to achieve Stage 7 on the HIMSS Analytics EMR Adoption Model, and one of only 39 facilities nationwide to reach Read more...
SPOTLIGHT: Disclosure of medical errors
Physicians, surprise, are less likely than risk managers to admit the occurrence of a medical error, though doctors generally are quicker to apologize to patients after an error than are risk Read more...
Short EHR implementation timeline could lead to errors
If there is such a thing as a general consensus about the proposed rules for "meaningful use" of health IT, it's that the current HHS plan is fairly solid, but in need of some tweaking. It's fairly Read more...
Grassley: Vendor 'gag orders' prevent HIT issues from being reported and resolved
Concerns from healthcare providers about errors and complications associated with using healthcare information technology have prompted Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) to send a lengthy list of Read more...
Ochsner automates anesthesia management
Ochsner Health System in New Orleans has automated anesthesia management at 41 locations with a new system from Atlanta-based DocuSys. The anesthesia information management system includes advanced Read more...
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