Posts Tagged ‘Health Care IT’
Best method to rate Wired Hospitals
July 22, 2008
What is the best method to rate how wired or wireless a hospital is. There has been some criticism of reports about Most Wired. Some “might mistakenly believe that the simple installation of healthcare IT would lift quality in a hospital.”While the most wired competition has some discrete standards, not all hospitals participate and some major players are missing. But is a good opportunity for some hospitals to show major improvements. HIMSS Analytics has an alternative: The EMR Adoption model which is an 8 stage model including benchmarks such as CPOE and closed loop medication administration. Neither model is perfect, each have their own value.
Share and Enjoy
Today’s Healthcare CIO – C. Martin Harris, MD, MBA
July 2, 2008
Dr. Harris is on the cover of Health Management Technology, the July Issue. The article is an interview on being a CIO in a health care organization. Who better to explain the role that someone leading a key organization into the future of EMRs, PHRs (including a Google Health partnership), eResearch, and online consults. Certainly a leader and an innovator.
Share and Enjoy
Federal Health IT Strategic Plan Published
June 4, 2008
The Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) for Healthcare Technology has issued their strategic plan for 2008-2012. Subtitled “Using the Power of Information Technology to Transform Health and Care”, the report details plans in the areas of privacy and security, interoperability, adoption, and collaborative governance. It includes goals the areas of patient-focused healthcare and population health.
The measures of success are clearly spelled out:
- Health IT becomes common and expected in health care delivery nationwide for all communities, including those caring for underserved or disadvantaged populations;
- Your health information is available to you and those caring for you so that you receive safe, high quality, and efficient care;
- You will be able to use information to better determine what choices are right for you with respect to your health and care; and
- You trust your health information can be used, in a secure environment, without compromising your privacy, to assess and improve the health in your community, measure and make available the quality of care being provided, and support advances in medical knowledge through research.
This is one of the best strategy statements I have seen. The obvious question is: will congress and a new president pay sufficient attention to it and fund it appropriately so that Health IT can be transformative?
I recommend reading the synopsis if your time is limited.
Share and Enjoy
Future of Medical Imaging: Podcast & Video
January 15, 2008
Mayo Clinic and IBM are teaming up in a new center for medical imaging. A video and podcast are available here on the Healthnex blog. More information is available in the IBM Press Room including a white paper (“Real-Time Mutual-Information-Based Linear Registration on the Cell Broadband Engine Processor”) and PowerPoint presentations.
What is the future of medical imaging? With lower cost storage, more robust networks in hospitals and faster processors, many of the previous barriers are being broken down. This is confirmed by the growth of remote radiology. But the Mayo Clinic/IBM initiative demonstrates an innovation at another level with future real-time imaging which may benefit transplant or interoperative interventions.
Share and Enjoy
Healthcare Senario Planning
August 30, 2007
Found an blog focused on Healthcare IT with this unique title for two posts. It looks at the exponential and disruptive growth of health care information on the internet and how it is a trusted source for most consumers. He also points to this Senario Thinking portal with much broader ideas than healthcare. Looks like senario thinking can be compared to futurist thinking but on a shorter time horizon.
Share and Enjoy
Healthcare 100
August 2, 2007
Made in into the top 200 blogs on this list. 184 – in the honorable mention category. A growing list of blogs.
