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The Year EHRs Became ‘Real’ It came out of the blue. It slipped in the back door when no one was looking. There was no time for the nobles and princes in the marble halls of Washington to make a deal or slip in a poison pill. By Jim Tate, President, EMR Advocate 02/03/2012 262.5 KB
ICD-10 & HIPAA 5010: A One-Two Punch While presented in our list of the Top 10 Health IT Trends For 2012 as separate entries, one really can’t talk about either ICD-10 or HIPAA 5010 without referencing the other. By Ken Congdon, editor in chief, Healthcare Technology Online 02/03/2012 150.8 KB
Moving Data: Navigating HIE With Patients In Mind The explosion of communication technology is creating high demands to move health data down the information highway safely and without loss of integrity. By Rita Scichilone, MHSA, RHIA, CCS, CCS-P and Harry Rhodes, MBA, RHIA, CHPS, CPHIMS, FAHIMA 02/03/2012 179.6 KB
Is Protecting PHI A Pipe Dream? When I was approached to share my thoughts on the subject of PHI (protected health information) security, I first thought of the story about a young man who asked his Chinese great-grandfather what he thought about the French Revolution. By Mark Kadrich, Author, Endpoint Security 02/03/2012 153.2 KB
Can Telehealth’s Benefits Outweigh Its Challenges? A study performed by Intel in 2010 stated that clinical decision makers felt that the adoption of technology in general, and telehealth specifically, could cut costs and provide better patient outcomes. By Vicki Amendola, Editor, Healthcare Technology Online 02/03/2012 189.1 KB
Mine Big Data To Advance Clinical Decision Support Although much effort focuses on the improvement of clinical workflows, an opportunity exists to transform healthcare delivery by implementing evidence-based clinical decision support at the point of care. By Barry Chaiken, MD, FHIMSS; CMO, DocsNetwork 02/03/2012 148.3 KB
Top 10 Health IT Trends For 2012 Once considered a laggard, the healthcare industry is now one of the biggest hotbeds for technology adoption and innovation. By Ken Congdon, editor in chief, Healthcare Technology Online 02/03/2012 736.2 KB
E-Prescribing: The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly The Centers for Medicare & Medicare Services (CMS) promotes e-prescribing (eRx) as “a prescriber’s ability to electronically send an accurate, errorfree and understandable prescription directly to a pharmacy from the point-of-care.” By Shahid N. Shah, The Healthcare IT Guy 02/03/2012 219.2 KB
The Mobile Health Revolution It’s hard to ignore the impact mobile technology is making. Not just in healthcare, but in every facet of life. Our expanding ability to “do it now” is becoming the norm. By Vicki Amendola, Editor, Healthcare Technology Online 02/03/2012 141.5 KB
Uncovering The True Health IT Trends Well, 2012 is upon us, and you’ve likely already been bombarded with numerous articles, reports, and studies claiming to highlight the top health IT trends for the year. By Ken Congdon, editor in chief, Healthcare Technology Online 02/03/2012 353.4 KB
Mobile Solutions Drive Workflow Efficiences And New Care Models The healthcare sector, with over 36 million mobile workers worldwide, has all the characteristics of a market that will benefit greatly from mobile computing and communications solutions. By David Krebs, Practice Director, VDC Research 02/03/2012 164.4 KB
Healthcare Needs A New Breed Of Information Professional The convergence of technologies — both inside and outside the firewall — and mobile platforms are combining to change the way we think about enterprise information. By John Mancini, President, AIIM 02/03/2012 113.2 KB
ECM’s Role In Achieving One Patient, One Record While the benefits associated with pure paper reduction are important, the end result of a successful ECM implementation goes far beyond this, allowing healthcare organizations to accomplish larger, system-wide initiatives and complete their vision of attaining one patient, one record. By Meghan Demorse, author/professor 02/03/2012 52.8 KB
HC 100™ Patient I.D. Solution Datasheet Developed specifically to meet the unique needs of healthcare providers, Zebra’s reliable HC100 Patient I.D. Solution makes wristband printing easier and more cost-effective than laser solutions. 02/02/2012 493.7 KB
Mobile Carts Vs. Wall Stations In Your Healthcare Environment This article discusses the five advantages of utilizing mobile carts with a small footprint versus installing wall arms or wall stations in fixed station applications. By Gary Brayton, National Sales Manager, JACO, Inc. 02/02/2012 62.7 KB
Patient Wristbanding: The Advantages Of Thermal Over Laser Solutions Bar coded wristbands provide a convenient way to comply with The Joint Commission’s National Patient Safety Goal to “improve the accuracy of patient identification” and provide a foundation for other patient safety applications, such as bedside medication administration or specimen collection. 02/02/2012 315.8 KB
Key Considerations For Bar Coded Infant Wristbands Bar code wristbands are not just for adults—infants need them too. Imagine a mother’s shock to find out that a maternity nurse gave her newborn to another mother for the infant’s first feeding. 02/02/2012 339.7 KB
QLn 320™ Mobile Label Printer Brochure Zebra’s QL™ family of direct thermal mobile printers has built a highly satisfied following through its proven drop-resistant durability; user-friendly, productivity-boosting features; and easy integration. 02/02/2012 1.58 MB
Find Patient Safety In Numbers With Bedside Medication Administration Solutions A New Jersey medical center reduces adverse drug events with an Electronic Medication Administration Record (eMAR) implemented through leadership and staff collaboration. By Joan Harvey, DNP, MSN, RN, CCRN 02/01/2012 68.7 KB
Patient Safety Applications Of Bar Code And RFID Technologies The recent focus on patient safety in U.S. hospitals has yielded a flood of new technologies and tools aimed specifically at improving the quality of patient care at the bedside. This has been accomplished by integrating the physical process of care delivery with medication information and software applications that provide clinical decision support, and quality and safety checks. By Zebra Technologies 02/01/2012 519.1 KB
Benefiting From Bedside Specimen Labeling Labeling blood and other samples at the time they are collected improves patient safety and helps prevent a host of problems related to misidentification—including many of the estimated 160,900 adverse events that occur in U.S. hospitals annually because of sample identification errors. By Zebra Technologies 02/01/2012 350.0 KB
It’s All In The Wrist: Improving Patient Safety With Bar Code Wristbands Identifying patients with bar coded wristbands is a first step healthcare organizations can take to make these improvements. Checking the “Five Rights”—Right Patient, Right Medication, Right Dose, Right Time and Right Method of Administration—prevents most medication errors. By Zebra Technologies 02/01/2012 346.6 KB
What Is A VNA, Anyway? The term Vendor Neutral Archive (VNA) is used by many vendors of PACS software to identify the core of their product--the component that is used to reliably manage, store, retrieve, and query medical images and related information. This white paper proposes a definition of a VNA that identifies different architecture levels and their specific functionality. By Herman Oosterwijk, President, OTech Inc. 02/01/2012 253.3 KB
Remote Systems Management Perhaps one of the greatest frustrations in enterprise management is inefficient operational processes. Without a good process to manage peripherals such as bar code readers, businesses will waste valuable and costly resources, especially those associated with labor. 01/31/2012 235.3 KB
The Datalogic Green Spot Not all bar code readers are created equal. Some specialize in reading one type of code or another, some are better at distance reading; others do additional special things, like bar code readers from Datalogic ADC. 01/31/2012 216.9 KB