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Marathon of Meaningful Use, EHR Standards Just Beginning
It came down to the wire, but the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services finally released two anxiously-awaited regulations last week. It provided both the definition of "meaningful use" for electronic health records and the standards to improve the efficiency of health information technology used nationwide by hospitals and physicians. This article offers a good summary of the proposed rule, which will be open for a 60-day comment period after the rule is published in the Federal Register in January. [Read More]
How to Prevent Top Three Health Information Breaches
In this article, my colleague Dom Nicastro analyzes three of the biggest breaches of patient information in 2009 and offers solutions on how organizations can prevent similar situations from occurring in their facilities. [Read More]
High-tech hospital gowns are hot
Patients at Cooper University Hospital no longer have to endure being cold and uncomfortable in a drafty hospital gown. For the past six months the hospital has been using hospital gowns that have a machine blowing warm air between the layers of paper, so that patients are kept warm before, during, and after surgery. The gowns, made by Minnesota-based Arizant Inc., cost about $15 each. They not only make the patients feel better, but they also help organizations maintain patients normal body temperature during surgery. [Read More]
Virtual Nurse Helps Patients Understand Discharge Information
A virtual nurse named "Elizabeth" is helping nurses and patients during the discharge process. When a patient is ready for discharge, a touch-screen computer can be wheeled to the bedside. The patient's discharge information is pre-programmed, so Elizabeth can help answer any questions or concerns that the patient might have. She also quizzes patients to make sure they understand the information given to them. If the patient doesn't understand the information and Elizabeth is unable to answer the question, the nurse receives an alert. Researchers are investigating applications that would enable patients to talk to the virtual nurse from their home. [Read More]
Breakthroughs: Aligning Hospitals and Physicians Toward Value
The current relationship between hospitals and physicians has been built around rewarding for volume of services and not quality. That model is breaking down as reformers in Washington have hospital and physician inefficiency in their sights, with Medicare pushing toward value-based purchasing and experimenting with a payment system that rewards a system of coordinated care. In this HealthLeaders Media Breakthroughs report that you can download for free, four leading hospital systems—Gundersen Lutheran Health System, Sanford Health-MeritCare, SSM Health Care, and Virginia Mason Medical Center—share the lessons they have learned about adding quality to healthcare. [Read More]
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Tech Headlines
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Study questions value of remote patient monitoring in ICUs
iHealthBeat - January 5, 2010
Healthcare Management Systems Inc. makes deal to help finance EHR purchases
Nashville Business Journal - January 5, 2010
Implanted cardiac device testing is scant, study finds
Los Angeles Times - December 30, 2009
Georgia to help doctors get e-medical records
Chattanooga Times Free Press - January 5, 2010
At-home technology can monitor seniors for safety
AP/Boston Herald - January 5, 2010
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