Wednesday, July 15, 2009

Health Informatics News

Health Informatics News

Keesler Air Force Base Deploys PACS

Posted: 15 Jul 2009 09:08 AM PDT

The U.S. Air Force has deployed Belgium-based Agfa HealthCare ’s Impax PACS to replace the existing system at Keesler Air Force Base ’s Keesler Medical Center in Biloxi, Miss. According to the company, Impax includes security features such as armoring, encryption, access control, auditing and compliance with regional legislation, which the Air Force hopes will help in achieving its goal of securely connecting and consolidating data and imaging archives located at multiple regional facilities onto a single point of storage. Keesler Medical Center is one of the largest medical centers in the Air Force. Its diagnostic imaging department boasts an array of state-of-the-art equipment, including the Air Force’s only 3-Tesla MRI system, says the company.

N.C. Health System Farming Out Web Services

Posted: 14 Jul 2009 08:28 AM PDT

Novant Health , a not-for-profit integrated group of hospitals and physician practices based in Winston-Salem, N.C., is contracting with CareTech Solutions, Inc. (Troy, Mich.) for its Web services. CareTech says it will roll out its content management system and provide secure hosting for Novant Health’s ten hospital websites. It will also redevelop Novant’s corporate Web site, physician portals and physician practice Web sites, according to the company. CareWorks CMS, a module-based engine, will be leveraged to migrate existing Web pages, it says. The company will work with the Novant Health Web Center team to create customizable sites for the health system, incorporating functionalities such as bill payment, patient preregistration, class registration, physician finder and appointment request form interfaces.   CareTech will host the Web sites within its data center, it says. Novant Health cares for patients and communities in North and South Carolina and Virginia. The Novant Medical Group consists of 1,097 physicians in 372 practice locations.  

Baptist St. Anthony’s Taps EDIS

Posted: 14 Jul 2009 08:26 AM PDT

Baptist St. Anthony’s Health System (BSA) in Amarillo, Texas is implementing Somerset, N.J.-based Wellsoft Corporation ’s Emergency Department Information System (EDIS). The Health System will incorporate several functions of the EDIS, including patient tracking, risk management, order tracking and real-time reporting, according to the company. The solution will be integrated into the existing hospital information system at BSA, it says. Baptist St. Anthony Health System includes a 451-bed not-for-profit community hospital, which serves over 40,000 patients in its ED each year, and provides service to the Texas panhandle and the tri-state area.

KLAS Report: Cost for ERP Consulting Dropped

Posted: 13 Jul 2009 12:11 PM PDT

A new report from Orem, Utah-based KLAS says the typical cost hospitals pay for a consulting engagement for enterprise resource planning (ERP) software has dropped dramatically in the past three years. The report, “Staying on Target with ERP Implementations: A Report on Healthcare Consulting Firms,” reflects the experiences of 59 healthcare providers that have recently implemented or upgraded ERP software with the help of IT consultants. The study points out that the average cost of an ERP consulting engagement has dropped 77 percent in three years – from roughly $2 million in 2006 to just $450,000 today. According to KLAS, in addition to budget constraints facing hospitals, it also reflects that fact that most healthcare ERP engagements today are upgrades. To learn more about the ERP implementation services market, as well as the strengths and weaknesses of participating firms, the report, “Staying on Target with ERP Implementations: A Report on Healthcare Consulting Firms” is available at www.KLASresearch.com .

Merge Healthcare Unveils Surgery Management System

Posted: 09 Jul 2009 12:47 PM PDT

Milwaukee-based Merge Healthcare has released Frontiers 4.2.2, a surgery management solution that it says improves hospital workflow by capturing and charting clinical data throughout the entire perioperative-care process. The company touts that Frontiers automates the clinical and business documentation requirements in the operating room, allowing clinicians and physicians to better focus on patient care.

Survey: Privacy compliance has declined

Posted: 14 May 2006 01:56 AM PDT

Three years after federal rules governing the privacy of patients' medical records went into effect, compliance seems to have declined for 6 percent, according to an annual survey conducted by the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA). Read more about this at here.

E-book: Making E-Health Work

Posted: 14 May 2006 01:53 AM PDT

E-Health has become an integral part of present-day healthcare delivery. With healthcare consumers, increasingly the focus of most health systems, the widespread implementation of health information and communications technologies offers cost-effective opportunities to meet their increasingly sophisticated healthcare needs.Bankix Systems Ltd has released its latest e-book. It is a 200-page in-depth analysis of the issues involved in "Making E-Health Work," the e-book's title. Read more about this e-book at here.

Consumer tools: UCompareHealthCare Offers Free Reports on Hospitals, Nursing Homes and Physicians

Posted: 11 Mar 2006 01:01 AM PST

"UCompareHealthCare has just unveiled its Web site, ucomparehealthcare.com, which features free reports on the nation's nursing homes, hospitals and physicians to help consumers make informed healthcare decisions. I checked the web site and found it very informative for health consumers to help them make informed decision about their choices of doctors, hospitals and others." Read more about this at UCompareHealthCare

Articles: Direct to Consumer: Women are a powerful, but untapped, audience

Posted: 03 Feb 2006 12:04 AM PST

"Women influence many family decisions—from choosing what's for dinner to selecting the medications their children take. In fact, nearly two-thirds of women are responsible for family healthcare decisions, according to a 2004 national survey conducted by Plan for Your Health. Many women also assume the care-giving role outside their nuclear families. Today's middle-aged woman may also look after her parents and in-laws too, often determining how long they can live on their own and how to best care for them. In addition, she often influences the important health decisions of grandchildren, co-workers, and friends." Read more at PharmExec.

Consumer tools: Really Personal PHRs

Posted: 27 Jan 2006 01:05 AM PST

"If we're committed to fostering the adoption of personal health records, we should take a page out of the consumer marketing textbooks — not the primers of health IT marketers. This was my conclusion after attending a recent meeting in Washington, D.C., sponsored by the Markle Foundation, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Agency for Healthcare Quality Research and Quality. " Read more about this at iHealthBeat .

Consumer trends: Manhattan Predicts Online Health Trends

Posted: 27 Jan 2006 12:06 AM PST

"US healthcare specialist Manhattan Research has published a summary of the major trends for health and pharmaceutical marketers to consider in 2006. The trends chart the increased use of the web and other new technologies as a health information and communication tool for both patients and physicians." Read more at Daily Research News Online.

News: Wall Street Journal Looks at Tools That Identify Low-Cost Care Options

Posted: 26 Jan 2006 01:07 AM PST

"The Wall Street Journal on Thursday looked at efforts by insurers to provide patients with tools - including a cell phone Web browsing service - to help them find low-cost treatment options. Lumenos, a unit of WellPoint, in February will launch the cell phone service, which lets patients type drug names into their cell phones' Web browsers and get lists of lower-cost alternatives. The program is designed so that patients can ask their physicians about cost-effective alternatives while they still are at their appointments." Read more at iHealthBeat.

Consumer tools: Consumer Health Complete Now Available from EBSCO Publishing

Posted: 25 Jan 2006 12:09 AM PST

"In continuing with the company's goal of providing the most comprehensive collection of online health and wellness resources, EBSCO Publishing has announced the release of Consumer Health Complete (CHC). This full text database is designed to support consumer and patients' information needs as well as foster an overall
understanding of health-related topics." Read more at Managing Information News.
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