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May 28, 2003 HIMSS NEWS INDUSTRY NEWS HEALTHCARE TECHNOLOGY NEWSBRIEFS |
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1. You're invited to attend the CEO IT achievement banquet Space is still available for the CEO IT Achievement Award Banquet, set for Monday, June 9 at the Adler Planetarium. The Banquet will be held in conjunction with HIMSS' Summer Conference in Chicago, June 9 and 10. Tickets to the banquet are $95 per person; tables of 10 can be purchased for $950 per table. See the registration form to sign up for this premier event. George Vecchione, president and CEO of Lifespan Healthcare System in Providence, RI, and Pete Velez, executive director of Elmhurst (NY) Hospital Center and senior vice president of Queens Healthcare Network, are the winners of the 2003 CEO IT Achievement Award sponsored by HIMSS and Modern Healthcare magazine. The award recognizes one or more healthcare industry CEOs who demonstrate leadership and commitment to using information technology to advance their organization's strategic goals.
HIMSS announces a call for papers for the Winter 2004 edition of the Journal of Healthcare Information Management, edited by Richard Lang,Ed.D.The journal is seeking papers for the focus section of the journal and also papers on topics of general interest to the field. The focus section is on CPOE and patient safety. Potential authors also can submit manuscripts on topics not related to the focus section. The deadline for abstracts is July 1, 2003. The deadline for manuscripts is September 1, 2003. For details, request a copy of HIMSS' Writer's Guidelines from Fred Bazzoli, Director of Communications, HIMSS, (312) 915-9253, fbazzoli@himss.org. Submission guidelines are also available on the HIMSS Web site at www.himss.org/content/files/jhim_submissions.pdf.
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Don't miss the HIMSS audio conferences, CPOE Critical Success Factors: Technology, People and Processes, to be held on June 19 and 26 from 2 to 3 p.m. CDT. The cost for each is $95 for HIMSS member sites and $125 for nonmember sites. Attend both and receive a 15 percent discount. Each audio conference earns one contact hour towards CPHIMS recertification. On June 19, The Perils and Promises of Technology describe CPOE features that enhance or encumber clinical workflow. The presenter will be Jonathan M. Teich, MD, PhD, chief medical officer for HEALTHvision and emergency medicine physician at Brigham and Women's Hospital, Waltham, MA. To learn more, visit www.himss.org/asp/ContentRedirector.asp?ContentId=32449 On June 26, listen to The Mayo Clinic Experience: CPOE Success and Failure, in which two physicians will talk candidly about the differences each faced in their implementation of CPOE and workflow enhancement. Speakers are John K. Camoriano, MD, senior associate consultant, Mayo Clinic Rochester and Mayo Clinic Scottsdale, and Jason Persoff, MD, Mayo Clinic Jacksonville.To learn more, visit www.himss.org/asp/ContentRedirector.asp?ContentId=32450
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5. NHII Conference scheduled to start June 30 "Developing a National Action Agenda for NHII," The National Health Information Infrastructure consensus conference for this year is scheduled for June 30 through July 2. Sponsored by the Department of Health and Human Services, the conference will feature expert panels from organizations such as the National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics, the President's Information Technology Advisory Committee and the Institute of Medicine. Some 1,000 attendees are expected; they will attend plenary sessions and then meet in small breakout groups to consideration recommendations in eight key areas. The event will be held at the Renaissance Washington Hotel in the nation's capital. For more information on the conference, contact Dianne Norcutt at 301-628-3146. to view the full agenda, go to www.nhii-03.s-3.net/agenda.htm; to register online, go to www.nhii-03.s-3.net/registration.htm. 6. Research backs up financial benefits of CPOE applications The use of computerized provider order entry applications in ambulatory settings will provide tangible savings for individual provider organizations and the nation as a whole, says research from the Center for Information Technology Leadership. For example, CPOE applications have been shown to save money on prescriptions, and also in ordering laboratory and radiological procedures, says CITL, created by Partners Healthcare System and supported by HIMSS. The applications also will prevent adverse drug events (ADEs); reducing the number of ADEs will trim the number of hospitalizations for serious incidents, CITL research shows. These findings and other implementation factors will be presented at the ACPOE Symposium on June 11 in Chicago, jointly sponsored by HIMSS and Partners. Registration is $995, and that price includes CITL's 112-page report on ACPOE and an interactive CD, which are together priced at $445. To register or for more information, visit www.himss.org/summerconference/ASP/events_acpoe.asp. Or attend HIMSS summer conference on June 9 and 10 and the ACPOE Symposium for only $1,195. 7. Technology helps reduce healthcare staffing shortages Results from the 2003 HIMSS Staffing and Technology Survey suggest that technology can help reduce healthcare staffing shortages, particularly when that technology is introduced into a well-designed care process. Results show that 52 percent of respondents indicated that technology would have a significant impact on increasing worker efficiency, and another 42 percent suggested that implementing technology would have some impact on increasing worker efficiency. Full results of the survey can www.himss.org/content/files/StaffingTechnologySurvey.pdf 8. Experience counts with clinical standards in healthcare Shannah Koss, a HIMSS member, industry leader and recognized speaker on the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), believes the industry should consider what has and has not worked for HIPAA administrative transactions to avoid repeating the same mistakes when establishing healthcare IT standards. In fact, she says the standards represent the critical foundation for addressing America's greatest healthcare concerns including medical errors, SARS, and bioterrorism. Koss, who is the author of a new white paper on industry standards, cautions against well-intended calls to action that suggest competing and limited approaches to healthcare IT standards. In fact, when it comes to the application of information technology, the healthcare industry lags behind industries such as banking, insurance, grocery stores, reservations/ticketing, publishing, and manufacturing, which have improved productivity and efficiency and lower costs with the use of IT. The white paper is found at www.himss.org/content/files/WPClinicalStandardsinHealthcareV3.doc
Representatives of the nation's leading healthcare and consumer groups have endorsed 30 patient safety practices for healthcare settings to reduce the risk of harm resulting from processes, systems, or environments of care, according to a consensus report released today by the National Quality Forum and funded in part by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. The 30 patient safety practices are outlined in a new report, Safe Practices for Better Healthcare: A Consensus Report. "By achieving consensus on this set of evidence-based, high-priority safe practices, NQF seeks to stimulate their universal implementation in applicable healthcare settings and, in turn, achieve substantial improvements in patient safety," said NQF President and CEO Kenneth W. Kizer, M.D. The NQF consensus report is based in part on work by a team of researchers at AHRQ's Evidence-based Practice Center at Stanford University and the University of California at San Francisco.
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Sponsored by Dell Computer Corp. Dell introduces the Dell Knowledge Center for Healthcare, a (c) Copyright 2003 Information Inc. 10. Better Prognosis After Slow Start The relatively slow conversion to electronic patient records (EPRs) in healthcare is not a result of technological concerns, but to financial limitations and other factors. Eva Deutsch of IBM's healthcare operations argues that EPRs represents a huge change for an organization, so doctors must be amenable to a conversion, and a facility must clearly evaluate its processes to make the change possible. Information technology hasn't affected care delivery the way it has administrative functions, and doctors tend to base their support on whether they believe changes will improve clinical care, says Andrew Broderick of SRI Consulting Business Intelligence. . the potential benefits of EPRs for patient care include cutting patient deaths associated with medical mistakes, which may result from illegible reading of handwriting, and supporting better care. Electronic standards like XML and HL7 enable healthcare groups to more easily exchange patient data, permitting more unified and accurate records and treatment. 11. Wireless Ways on the Wards Hospitals in the United Sates and Europe are increasingly using wireless local area networks (WLANS) and handheld devices. These technologies save time and provide a higher standard of care. Frost & Sullivan research analyst John Gilsenan states that the productivity benefits of WLANs include streamlining internal communications, eliminating the need to duplicate records, and ensuring document reliability. By 2004, Chahners InStat expects one-fifth of all US physicians will regularly use hand-held devices.
Hospital Corp. of America has enrolled 14 of its hospitals in a trial of an electronic medication administration system. The project involves bar-coding medications and using handheld scanners on patient wristbands to ensure that patients receive proper drugs and doses. An alert is sent out if a mistake is made. Medication errors cause from 40,000 to 90,000 deaths in US hospitals each year, says Jo Burt of Mountain View Hospital, a participating hospital in the trial. The Payson, Utah, facility has put the bar-coding equipment on walls in the medical, surgical, intensive care, and obstetrics departments.
The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), which gives individuals more control over the privacy of their personal medical information, will place limitations on or completely prohibit medical researchers from accessing large amounts of patient data to conduct studies, says Association of American Medical Colleges senior vice president David Korn. To maintain access to data, Johns Hopkins and other major teaching hospitals are implementing systems to manage the process and other researchers are relying on volunteer participants. The problem arises when data is required from teaching hospitals as well as community hospitals, medical clinical, and other facilities. Researchers are worried that the complexity of HIPAA and the steep penalties associated with transgressions will discourage community hospitals and other medical facilities from sharing information.
Health organizations' compliance to HIPAA requires an understanding of the threats to and liabilities of protected data and the institution of a broad variety of safeguards and security best practices. The safeguards fall into administrative, physical, and technical areas. The administrative portion is best addressed by hiring a chief privacy officer to establish policy and procedure for employees. Workers needs to be aware of security and trained to protect it. Access, authentication, authorization, auditing, integrity, and transmission of data fall under the technical heading. The chief privacy officer can learn where to devote HIPAA compliance efforts by having an independent information security audit performed. The officer can then establish clear and consistent standards for the organization.
Martin Merry, a medical staff leadership consultant, notes that hospital physicians and executives typically have an uncomfortable relationship. James Lederer, Novant Health's medical director for performance improvement, says the lack of trust often results from a disengagement. VHA affiliate Community Hospitals implemented electronic medical records at the Indiana Heart Hospital because administrators acted on the advice of cardiologists. Glenn Bingle, senior vice president for medical and academic affairs, points out that the technology is of no benefit to the administrators. The effort to decrease doctors' wariness about technology is aided by HEALTHvision, a VHA spinoff. The company provides consumer health content, a purchasing portal for doctors, and a clinical care reference tool.
Several state healthcare authorities are looking to wireless personal digital assistants (PDAs) as part of the solution to reduce high rates of medical mistakes and high medical costs. However, groups like Cedars-Sinai Medical Center have run into problems with the computerized physician order-entry programs they have implemented, because doctors have found systems to be too cumbersome and more time-consuming than traditional paper prescriptions. Some PDA systems also have proven frustrating because they have to operate with retail pharmacy or mail order pharmacy systems, which means doctors must pay monthly fees to use them. |
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