Meridian Health System: a 'destination employer'
The IT department at Meridian Health System is two blocks from its academic medical center – a geographical layout that makes apparent the direct impact its technology work has on clinicians and consumers alike.
Best Hospital Label:
Best Super Hospital IT Department
Workforce
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Source: Healthcare IT News - November 2, 2015 Category: Information Technology Authors: Tom Sullivan Tags: Online Only Workforce Source Type: news
At Wake Forest Baptist, a 'reinvigorated' IT team
Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center has seen some sizable IT challenges in recent years, but Chief Information Officer Deette "Dee" Emon says the Winston-Salem, N.C.-based health system has made its way through the storm, and staff morale has "really come around."
Best Hospital Label:
Best Super Hospital IT Department
Workforce
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Source: Healthcare IT News - November 2, 2015 Category: Information Technology Authors: Mike Miliard Tags: Online Only Workforce Source Type: news
Big data holds keys to population health
Big data is on the minds of everyone in the healthcare field, as they work to harness it to create more complete patient profiles for better population health.
Explorys Vice President of Provider Programs Sarah Mihalik sees this as a critical time for big data in healthcare, and she urges healthcare leaders to consider new technology and ways of thinking to fully incorporate big data ideas into their practices.
Analytics
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Source: Healthcare IT News - October 30, 2015 Category: Information Technology Authors: Jessica Davis Tags: Online Only Analytics Clinical Data Warehousing Population Health Workflow Source Type: news
Cleveland Clinic picks top 10 innovations for 2016
Topping the list of the Top 10 Medical Innovations for 2016 are new, faster methods of creating vaccines, a process for rewriting genetic code, and a water purification system for the developing world.
A panel of 75 Cleveland Clinic physicians and scientists selected the medical innovations expected to take hold in 2016 and make the most difference in medicine.
Clinical
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Source: Healthcare IT News - October 30, 2015 Category: Information Technology Authors: Bernie Monegain Tags: Online Only Analytics Clinical Imaging Mobile Population Health Source Type: news
Innovation Pulse: An early glimpse into a learning health system
When NYU Langone Medical Center established a Department of Enterprise Data Quality, the academic medical center homed in on exactly how information is collected, categorized and distributed -- as well as how to validate quality across the entire clinical enterprise.
Population Health
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Source: Healthcare IT News - October 30, 2015 Category: Information Technology Authors: Tom Sullivan Tags: Online Only Data Warehousing Decision Support Interoperability Network Infrastructure Population Health Source Type: news
View all Leapfrog's 'F' hospitals
How many hospitals are actually putting patient's lives at risk?
That would be 34 facilities, according to the Leapfrog Group's Fall 2015 Hospital Safety Score rankings.
[Related: Safety still shaky at many hospitals and see all the 'A' hospitals.]
Quality and Safety
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Source: Healthcare IT News - October 29, 2015 Category: Information Technology Authors: Henry Powderly Tags: Online Only Quality and Safety Source Type: news
View all Leapfrog's 'A' hospitals
Leapfrog released the fall iteration of its hospital safety scores yesterday and in all 773 earned the grade of A.
Quality and Safety
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Source: Healthcare IT News - October 29, 2015 Category: Information Technology Authors: Henry Powderly Tags: Online Only Quality and Safety Source Type: news
How healthcare organizations can avoid repeating 2015's IT security failures
Avoid repeating 2015's security failures
In 2015, it seems like barely a month goes by without another report of a data breach suffered by a health care organization exposing personal information about patients, employees and related health services providers. HIPAA was intended to provide a framework for health care organizations to improve their overall security posture from both a technical and procedural standpoint, with the ultimate goal of preventing these kinds of breaches from happening. Unfortunately, what we've seen this year is quite the opposite.
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Source: Healthcare IT News - October 29, 2015 Category: Information Technology Authors: Nathan Wenzler Tags: Data Warehousing Network Infrastructure Privacy & Security Source Type: news
Making analytics work for quality improvement? Harder than it looks
It's one thing to say you're going to embrace data analytics; it's another to do it. And it's something else entirely to actually turn the insights derived from clinical and business intelligence into better care and lower costs.
Analytics
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Source: Healthcare IT News - October 29, 2015 Category: Information Technology Authors: Mike Miliard Tags: Online Only Analytics Business Intelligence Clinical Quality and Safety Workflow Source Type: news
Technology leads hospital expenditures
Hospitals are continuing to make big investments in technology as they recognize the need to effectively manage population health, according to C-suite execs polled for Premier's Fall 2015 Economic Outlook survey.
More than 64 percent of respondents reported an increase to capital budgets this year, reflecting the need for investments in advanced technology to meet value-based care goals. In fact, 39 percent of these respondents increased their budgets by at least 10 percent.
Population Health
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Source: Healthcare IT News - October 29, 2015 Category: Information Technology Authors: Jessica Davis Tags: Online Only Analytics Electronic Health Records Financial/Revenue Cycle Management Patient Engagement Population Health Source Type: news
Hospitals to triple use of cloud services
How aggressively are healthcare organizations turning to the cloud?
Globally, the market could triple in within five years. That would mean skyrocketing from $3.73 billion in 2015 to nearly $9.5 billion by 2020, according to research firm MarketsandMarkets.
Cloud Computing
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Source: Healthcare IT News - October 29, 2015 Category: Information Technology Authors: Jack McCarthy Tags: Online Only Clinical Cloud Computing Source Type: news
Interoperability pain point: the emergency department
A survey of emergency department (ED) doctors and staff found widespread dissatisfaction with interoperability and usability in Emergency Department Information Systems (EDIS).
Interoperability
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Source: Healthcare IT News - October 29, 2015 Category: Information Technology Authors: Jack McCarthy Tags: Online Only Electronic Health Records Interoperability Source Type: news
Perspective: One patient's satisfied experience with hospital IT
On Sept. 27, a piece of wood flew up from a power saw, crashing into my thumb. The nail was bleeding and my hand radiated a dull but intense throbbing. I knew that the emergency department made more sense than an urgent care facility, which would not offer orthopedic services.
Quality and Safety
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Source: Healthcare IT News - October 29, 2015 Category: Information Technology Authors: Skip Snow Tags: Online Only Clinical Electronic Health Records ICD-10 & Coding Quality and Safety Workflow Source Type: news
Closing HIPAA compliance gaps: Developing responsive training and incident management
Developing responsive training
Compliance & Legal
Closing HIPAA compliance gaps: Developing responsive training and incident management
Since HIPAA regulations are so vast, it can be difficult to fully understand what training is required and how often it should occur. That said, it's essential to make sure staff are properly trained to prevent breaches and mitigate effects should they occur.
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Source: Healthcare IT News - October 29, 2015 Category: Information Technology Authors: Lyn Triffletti Tags: Compliance & Legal Workforce Source Type: news
On trying (still) to access one's health data electronically
A few months back, I shared my struggle to obtain copies of my daughter's and my medical records. Initially I had made my requests through the doctors' portals and/or websites. Overall the results were disappointing, primarily because a couple of the providers never responded to the requests.
Patient Engagement
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Source: Healthcare IT News - October 28, 2015 Category: Information Technology Authors: Michelle Ronan Noteboom Tags: Online Only Electronic Health Records Patient Engagement Population Health Privacy & Security Quality and Safety Source Type: news
