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Editor's Picks
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Will the iPad Revolutionize Healthcare?
If you're curious as to whether Apple's iPad will transform healthcare, this article by my colleague Cheryl Clark is worth a read. She spoke with four health leaders about the iPad, and the overall consensus was it's not ready for prime time, but it holds a lot of promise. It "will definitely be worth a pilot," according to John Halamka, MD, chief information officer at Harvard Medical School. [Read More]
Meaningful Use Calls for Meaningful Risk Analysis
Healthcare organizations looking to meet CMS' "meaningful use" definition and qualify for government incentives must attest that a risk analysis has been conducted and reviewed. Here are three tips to meeting that requirement. [Read More]
Hospital Creates Electronic Medication List to Achieve Consistency, Help Patients
Washington Hospital Healthcare System in Fremont, CA, converted its handwritten medication lists to electronic lists that are easy to read and accessible to all physicians. Now more than 99% of patients at WHHS have a home medication list compiled upon admission. This article discusses how WHHS got started and gained buy-in for the new electronic tools. For example, the hospital brought pharmacy technicians into the admission process and taught them how to take medication histories from patients, where to find additional medication information, and how to input the information into the technology application, which interfaces with the hospital's other computer systems and formulary. [Read More]
Live ED Overhaul Webcast on February 23
Join HealthLeaders Media on February 23 for HealthLeaders Media Rounds: ED Overhaul: Reduce costs, improve quality, and increase satisfaction from 9 a.m.-noon, PST. This three–hour Webcast features discussion–including interactive Q&A–of the key issues impacting ED management. Hear top executives from Scripps Health, Tomball Regional Hospital, William Beaumont Hospital, and Methodist Healthcare share solutions to: crowding and wait times, streamlining the admission process, ED and hospital integration, staffing plans that reduce costs and increase coverage during peak hours, physician alignment, and quality and patient safety improvement. For more information and to register click here. To attend the program live on the Scripps La Jolla campus, click here.
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Tech Headlines
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NIH will start keeping track of patients' radiation exposure
USA Today - February 1, 2010
Obama's Proposed Budget: More Money for Health IT, Medicare, Medicaid, NIH
Janice Simmons, for HealthLeaders Media - February 1, 2010
Americans Don't Trust Feds to Protect Patient Health Record Database
Cheryl Clark, for HealthLeaders Media - January 27, 2009
Medical Center Uses Web Questions to Connect Experts with Patients
Cynthia Johnson, for HealthLeaders Media - January 27, 2010
Practicing on patients, real and otherwise
New York Times - February 2, 2010
Experts raise concerns about EHR vendors' long-term viability
iHealthBeat - February 2, 2010
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Webcasts
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February 23: ED Overhaul: Reduce costs, improve quality, and increase satisfaction
On Demand: Marketing Oncology: Service Line Strategies for Marketers
On Demand: Joint Replacement Service Lines: Alignment and Business Strategies for a Changing Environment
On Demand: Women's Health: Building a More Profitable Service Line With Existing Assets
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Sponsored Headlines
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Harnessing effective asset management in an uncertain economy from IBM
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Building a successful validation process and compliance support with IBM Maximo solutions
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Managing healthcare assets and optimizing asset utilization with IBM asset management tools
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Learn how Sisters of Mercy Health achieved its asset management goals in partnership with IBM
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The Sports Center Famous athletes and big sports programs may be the public face of sports medicine, but at its core are local communities and, increasingly, the unconventional athlete. [Read More]
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