Sunday, March 14, 2010

Health Informatics News

Health Informatics News

Detroit MC Contracts for ER Transcription

Posted: 12 Mar 2010 07:29 AM PST

Detroit Medical Center (DMC) awarded a contract to Mt. Laurel, N.J.-based Medquist to provide transcription outsourcing services for Emergency Medicine documentation in six its hospitals. MedQuist was able to preserve more than 60 Medical Transcriptionist (MT) positions from DMC’s previous supplier by hiring those MTs who were already doing the work for the healthcare system, says the company. Detroit Medical Center is the leading academically integrated system in metropolitan Detroit and the largest health care provider in southeast Michigan. The DMC has more than 2,000 licensed beds and 3,000 affiliated physicians.

Siemens CEO Resigning

Posted: 12 Mar 2010 06:02 AM PST

Janet Dillione, CEO of the Healthcare IT business unit for Siemens Medical Solutions (Malvern, Pa.), is resigning from her post, effective April 1, according to media reports. Healthcare Informatics is working to independently confirm this information. Dillione has been with the company since 2000. In her position, she led Siemens global healthcare IT business, including strategy and portfolio management, profit and performance, and customer satisfaction, says the company.

Five Hospitals Sign On for Meditech Migration Tools

Posted: 11 Mar 2010 08:44 AM PST

Braintree, Mass.-based Summit Healthcare has signed five new hospitals. Beaufort Memorial Hospital (Beaufort, S.C.), Blythedale Children’s Hospital (Valhalla, N.Y.), Boulder Community Hospital (Boulder, Colo.), Cayuga Medical Center (Ithaca, N.Y.) and Jordan Hospital (Plymouth, Mass.) have all chosen the company as their sole integration partner as they migrate from their current Meditech (Westwood, Mass.) platforms to Meditech 6.0. Summit Healthcare says it will provide these organizations with its expertise for interface management, data migration and dictionary maintenance to ensure successful, streamlined and secure migrations. Its product suite provides Meditech customers with a toolset for integration and automation needs and streamlines the Meditech 6.0 migration efforts, it says. According to the company, the Summit Apex suite is comprised of: an interface engine used for both hospital and physician office EMR integration with third party systems; a workflow and task automation tool that also provides the means to extract and parse data; a solution for dictionary maintenance; and a reporting system designed to ensure access to critical patient data at all times. 

Study: $2 Billion in New Business Opportunities Exists for Ambulatory EHRs

Posted: 11 Mar 2010 08:35 AM PST

Findings from a new study released by healthcare technology research and advisory firm, CapSite (a division of Williston, Vt.-based Fletcher/CSI ), indicate that there is a $2 billion new business opportunity in the ambulatory EHR space. The company says its 2010 U.S. Ambulatory EHR Study is a strategic analysis of the U.S. Ambulatory EHR market in response to the HITECH component of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. According to CapSite, nearly 70 percent of U.S.-based physician groups or practices have 10 or few physicians. Based on its findings, the company sees an opportunity of more than $1 billion in net new business in the small practice space, it says. The 2010 U.S. Ambulatory EHR Study is a survey of over 1,000 group practices, outpatient clinics, urgent care centers, and other healthcare facilities. Respondents were asked about recent ambulatory EHR purchases, including purchase timeframe, which vendors they purchased from, and future purchase plans. Respondents also provided information on their strategies to achieve and document meaningful use, their considerations to replace existing PM/EHR solutions, and other important aspects of their decision making in the EHR field.

Bosch Named First CMIO at Inova

Posted: 11 Mar 2010 08:26 AM PST

Falls Church, Va.-based Inova Health System has named Ryan Bosch, M.D., as its first ever chief medical information officer (CMIO). As CMIO, Bosch will develop and support application strategies, manage the implementation of advanced clinical systems, and assist in the formation and execution of strategic initiatives, says the organization. In addition, he will provide project management leadership and develop relationships with Inova partners, vendors and staff.  Prior to joining Inova, Bosch worked as director of general internal medicine at George Washington University Medical Faculty Associates, where he led 30 internal-medicine physicians in all divisional aspects of clinical-care delivery, including both quality and revenue-cycle management. He also directed the successful EHR implementation for the 300-physician GWU academic faculty. Inova Health System is a not-for-profit healthcare system based in Northern Virginia that consists of hospitals and other health services, including emergency and urgent care centers, home care and nursing homes.

Midwest Community Network Gets EMR

Posted: 10 Mar 2010 06:15 AM PST

InConcertCare, a network of facilities providing to underserved populations in Iowa and Nebraska, has selected U.K.-based GE Healthcare ’s Centricity Practice for Community Health Centers. According to the company, the solution will be utilized by more than 140 providers in the InConcertCare network, equipping the organization with tools to support their centers’ growing data collection needs, UDS and Title X reporting requirements and CHC-specific billing demands. With Centricity Practice, participating clinics can become fully automated by utilizing features such as integrated scheduling, electronic messaging, care alerts for physicians, real-time decision support, drug-disease interaction checks, ePrescribing and claims processing services to help improve management of the revenue cycle, it says. InConcertCare is a network of eight community and migrant health centers serving 78,000 people in underserved communities throughout Iowa and Nebraska. The non-profit organization was established in 1997 to improve the delivery of accessible, efficient, coordinated, quality, and appropriate health care services for the medically underserved.

Carolina Radiologists Gets PACS

Posted: 10 Mar 2010 06:12 AM PST

Carolina Regional Radiology PA (CRR, Fayetteville), an imaging and radiology practice serving a ten-county region in southeastern North Carolina, is implementing InteleOne from Westminster, Colo.-based Intelerad Medical Systems to interconnect its facilities. InteleOne will utilize a distributed architecture to provide interoperability between the different sites’ PACS and RIS systems, says the company. Through the deployment, CRR radiologists will have access to data and images regardless of their office location. CRR is an interventional practice providing state-of-the-art imaging solutions for hospitals, imaging centers, mobile services, urgent care centers, physician practices, and the armed services, as well as direct procedural care for patients. It offers onsite services and teleradiology to two imaging centers, four hospitals, and more than a dozen small clinics.
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