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- Spooner Named CHIME CIO of the Year
- Pa. Hospital Post Superior Infection Rates
- UMC Princeton to Connect with Affiliated Docs
- Twitter hoax spreads rumors of free flights to Haiti
| Spooner Named CHIME CIO of the Year Posted: 14 Jan 2010 06:46 AM PST The Ann Arbor, Mich.-based College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) announced that the recipient of the 2009 John E. Gall Jr. CIO of the Year Award is William Spooner, FCHIME, Senior Vice President and CIO at Sharp HealthCare in San Diego. The award, co-sponsored by CHIME and Chicago-based HIMSS , recognizes healthcare IT executives who have made significant contributions to their organizations and demonstrated innovative leadership through effective use of technology. Spooner has been with Sharp HealthCare since 1981 and has served as CIO for the past 13 years. He is currently leading Sharp’s efforts to implement physician order entry, a key component of the organization’s patient safety initiative and the foundation for its emerging EMR. According to CHIME, Spooner has served as Chair of the CHIME Board in 2006 and Chair of the CHIME Foundation Board in 2007. He has been a frequent presenter at the HIMSS conference and is active in his local chapter. Spooner will receive the award at the annual HIMSS Conference and Exhibition in Atlanta, Ga. on March 2. |
| Pa. Hospital Post Superior Infection Rates Posted: 14 Jan 2010 06:40 AM PST Healthcare-associated infection (HAI) rates are lower overall at Pennsylvania’s acute-care hospitals than elsewhere in the nation, according to a new report from the Pennsylvania Department of Health (DOH) cited by the Harrisburg, Pa.-based Hospital & Healthsystem Association of Pennsylvania (HAP). HAP says that Pennsylvania, which was selected to participate in the AHRQ national quality improvement program, was the first state to: create a patient safety organization; require the reporting of all HAIs and to release the first hospital-specific HAI report; and develop and implement a payment that would reduce payments to hospitals that experienced preventable serious adverse events. As a group, Pennsylvania’s hospitals showed improvements in all of the Medicare clinical measurements reviewed, and 60 percent of the state’s hospitals scored higher than the national average in all clinical measures, it touts. In addition, the percentage of Pennsylvania hospitals in the top 10th percentile nationwide increased for all but three measures (2006–2007 vs. 2007–2008 comparison). |
| UMC Princeton to Connect with Affiliated Docs Posted: 14 Jan 2010 06:36 AM PST University Medical Center at Princeton, a unit of Princeton HealthCare System (N.J.), will offer an ambulatory electronic health record to its affiliated physician practices supplied by Austin-based e-MDs in collaboration with Reston, Va.-based QuadraMed . According to the company, the solution will provide clinicians with access to complete patient information across the continuum of care. Established in 1919, UMC at Princeton is a 308-bed acute care hospital. It is affiliated with the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey – Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and is a Clinical Research Affiliate of The Cancer Institute of New Jersey. |
| Twitter hoax spreads rumors of free flights to Haiti Posted: 14 Jan 2010 08:51 AM PST Twitter was buzzing Thursday morning with news that several airlines are flying doctors and nurses to Haiti free of charge to help with relief efforts there in the wake of Tuesday's devastating earthquake. |
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