Healthcare IT News - March 2010
Hospital EHrs :
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HIMSSlanta
Healthcare IT professionals head to Atlanta to learn, to network and to shop for cool tech. PAGE 43
News
Public input critical to final rule
By Diana Manos, Senior Editor WASHINGTON
Tick tock
The deadline for ICD-10 is October 2013, but is it enough time to get everything done? PAGE 3
Haiti help
Internet, health IT make a difference in Haiti. PAGE 4
commentary
– Public comments will play a major role in defining meaningful use of healthcare IT, according to federal officials. The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services will accept comments through March 15 on the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) for the EHR Incentive Program for Medicare and Medicaid. David Blumenthal, MD, National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, said the
NPRM, published Jan. 13, is not a done deal. “We want to get it as right as possible,” he said during an HIT Standards Committee meeting on Jan. 20. “I would not hold back any comments because you think they are irrelevant. If it’s within the scope of the regulation, we want to hear about it and we’ll try to get it right.” The proposed rule contains 25 measures that providers must use to qualify for federal incentives beginning January 2011. The rule also contains 23 measures through which hospitals must demonstrate meaningful use of health-
care IT for incentives beginning Oct. 1, 2011. The incentives are spelled out in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA). Jodi Daniel, the ONC’s director of the Office of Policy and Research, said David the ONC’s ability to change the Blumenthal, MD proposed rule will be limited to removing or tweaking aspects already there. n
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Hearts and minds
HIMSS Analytics CEO Dave Garets says EHR deployments are not about the technology. PAGE 19
HOSPITALS & IDNs
Daunting data
Hospitals everywhere are not ready for the overwhelming amount of data to come. PAGE 23
Physician practices & ambulatory care
Davies goes to MultiCare
By Bernie Monegain, Editor
TACOMA, WA
Stepping up
Physicians must put technology to work on improving care, say Kaiser physicians. PAGE 35
Payers
Keeping the jobs
BCBS Michigan found a way to keep IT jobs local. PAGE 47
Vendors
IBM foray
Big Blue gives healthcare portfolio a boost with Initiate. PAGE 53
EPIC in ED: Heather Marshall, MD, works at a terminal equipped with MultiCare’s electronic health record in the Tacoma General Hospital Emergency Department
– The team at MultiCare Health System was exactly going for the prize when it completed its application for the 2009 HIMSS Davies Award. For them, it was all about the process. The goal was to learn and improve. “We just actually wanted to go through a process for a third-party who had done this in the past to really come into our organization to take a look at what we have accomplished and perhaps also share some of the best practices from other organizations,” said Florence Chang, CIO. As Chang puts it: “To put in a mirror right in front of us to see what we did well and what we can do better.” As it turns out, Chang and other members of the MultiCare team are sharing their experience and best practices in EHR implementation and use at HIMSS10, and taking home the Davies Organizational Award. MultiCare Health System is an integrated notfor-profit organization in Tacoma, Wash. with four
MULTICARE see page 26
Clinical Toolkit
Hospital EMRs
The stars and the funds are aligning for busy market. PAGE 60
Three more hospitals reach Stage 7
By Molly Merrill, Associate Editor
Management Solutions
Emphasis on ‘P’
Industry experts consider CPOE’s third wave, stress workflow. PAGE 62
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– Three more hospitals have been recognized for attaining Stage 7, the highest level on the HIMSS Analytics EMR Adoption Model. Citizens Memorial Hospital in Bolivar, Mo., Stanford Hospital and Clinics in Palo Alto, Calif., and the
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University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics in Madison, Wis., have been validated by HIMSS Analytics for delivering care without the use of paper charts and readily sharing clinical information with other care providers via electronic transactions. Citizens Memorial Healthcare, a 76-bed fully integrated healthcare
system with a Meditech system, is being showcased by HIMSS as a model for what small community hospitals can achieve with IT. Stanford Hospital and Clinics implemented an Epic EHR in 2006 and has been using a CPOE system since 2001. The University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics, a 493-bed tertiary care hospital regional referral center, also uses an EHR from Epic. “The investment we made in the electronic health record is an investment in patient safety and quality,” said Donna Katen-Bahensky, the hospital’s president and CEO. n
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HIMSS Analytics Stage 7 Hospitals
➔ Citizens Memorial Hospital, Bolivar, Mo., CIO Denni McColm ➔ Kaiser Permanente, Oakland, Calif., CIO Phil Fasano ➔ NorthShore University HealthSytems, Evanston, Ill., CIO Thomas W. Smith ➔ Sentara Healthcare, Norfolk, Va., CIO Bertram Reese ➔ Stanford University Medical Center, Stanford, Calif., CIO Carolyn Byerly ➔ Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC, Pittsburgh, CIO Dan Drawbaugh ➔ University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics, CIO Mike Sauk
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