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- Dillione Named Executive VP at Nuance
- Experts: Start Small with State HIEs
- Maryland Hospital Launches Data-sharing Platform
- Two Health Systems Roll Out CPOE
- North Hawaii Establishes HIE
| Dillione Named Executive VP at Nuance Posted: 01 Apr 2010 08:24 AM PDT Burlington, Mass.-based Nuance Communications, Inc. has named Janet Dillione, former CEO of Siemens Health Services, as executive vice president and general manager of Nuance’s Healthcare business. Dillione, who will report to Nuance’s chairman and CEO Paul Ricci, will utilize her knowledge and experience in healthcare IT strategy, market development and customer engagement in her new position, says the company. Before joining Siemens in 2000, Dillione held a number of leadership positions at Shared Medical Systems, where she maintained operating responsibility for the company’s profitability, market share growth, solutions portfolio development and customer satisfaction. Dillione is a member of several industry associations, including HIMSS. She has a Bachelors of Arts degree from Brown University and has attended the Executive Development Program at the Wharton School of Business. |
| Experts: Start Small with State HIEs Posted: 31 Mar 2010 08:57 AM PDT In a whitepaper released this week, Ann Arbor, Mich.-based Thomson Reuters has outlined the ten best practices for implementing statewide health information exchange (HIE) programs. As state officials gear up to put programs in place, researchers advise the following: Among the ten best practices for building a statewide HIE, Thomson Reuters recommends the following: Define a meaningful pilot that meets the needs of local stakeholders Rather than setting overly ambitious goals, get a small program up and running and learn from mistakes Involve physicians and clinicians at the outset to determine what will be most beneficial on the frontlines where patients are served Avoid the trap of tweaking the grand design toward perfection at the expense of launching something manageable Provide physicians with as many different types of information from as many different sources as possible Addressing the clinical use case is the most direct path to demonstrating the value of the HIE Avoid using an opt-in consent policy, as these environments have been shown to impede patient participation Utilize embedded analytic capabilities that deliver an intelligent presentation of information Build analytics into the system at the start-up Focus on the goal of providing the infrastructure to deliver data as efficiently as possible rather than trying to become the resident education and electronic records provider. For more information, visit http://interest.healthcare.thomsonreuters.com/content/HIEWhitepaper . |
| Maryland Hospital Launches Data-sharing Platform Posted: 31 Mar 2010 08:00 AM PDT Frederick Memorial Hospital , a 300-bed facility located west of Baltimore, is working with Birmingham, Ala.-based Medseek to develop an eHealth ecoSystem. According to the company, the ecoSystem will combine a patient portal and consumer-facing Web site with its existing Medseek physician portal to create an integrated, single-platform system that allows patients, physicians and clinicians to share data in a secure, online environment. The physician portal, which was deployed in 2008, connects 375 Frederick Memorial physicians and receives more than 1,000 logins per month, it says. |
| Two Health Systems Roll Out CPOE Posted: 31 Mar 2010 07:58 AM PDT Holy Redeemer Health System (Meadowbrook, Pa.) and Riverside Health System (Newport News, Va.) have successfully implemented Malvern, Pa.-based Siemens Healthcare ’s Soarian CPOE system. Holy Redeemer was the first Siemens CPOE customer to migrate from the legacy system, Siemens Invision, to Soarian. The company says physicians at the 244-bed facility were placing 75 percent of all orders electronically within the first week. At Riverside Health System, a 904-bed, five-hospital network, Soarian CPOE was rolled out to hospitalists at its Riverside Regional Medical Center. Within four weeks of the initial launch, physicians were placing 30 percent of all orders electronically. Siemens says the organization plans to extend CPOE to a second facility, Riverside Tappahannock. Both Holy Redeemer and Riverside integrated Soarian CPOE with its existing Siemens solutions, including Soarian Enterprise Document Management, Soarian Clinicals, Siemens Pharmacy, and Medication Administration Check, it says. |
| Posted: 30 Mar 2010 11:22 AM PDT The newly formed North Hawaii Health Information Exchange (NHHIE) is implementing Cambridge, Mass.-based Wellogic ’s provider and consumer portals and the Wellogic Health Information Exchange (HIE) in an effort to establish a connected healthcare community. The NHHIE — a collaborative effort involving the North Hawaii Community Hospital , a 30-bed acute care hospital located in Kamuela, and the Hawaii Independent Physician’s Association , along with independent physicians and their staff — aims to integrate the region’s leading payors, laboratories, imaging centers, pharmacies, and other trading partners. Through the use of Wellogic’s portals and HIE, the organization hopes to enable better management of transitions in care and address issues caused by gaps in care, says the company. In rolling out the HIE, North Hawaii will utilize implementation and operations services from India-based HCL , it adds. |
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