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- Jackson Clinic Selects Allscripts EHR
- Study Shows Bar-Code Technology, eMAR Reduce Medication Errors
- HCA Files Registration for IPO
- Jackson sued over layoffs
| Jackson Clinic Selects Allscripts EHR Posted: 07 May 2010 08:55 AM PDT Chicago-based Allscripts announced that The Jackson Clinic , located in Jackson, Tenn., has selected the Allscripts Electronic Health Record (EHR) for its 120 physicians and 10 mid-level providers who serve patients throughout West Tennessee. The Jackson Clinic will integrate the EHR with its Allscripts Vision Practice Management solution to provide full-spectrum automation of all clinical and financial activities. By upgrading to the Allscripts EHR, The Jackson Clinic expects to qualify for more than $4 million of federal stimulus funds under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. Beginning next year, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services will pay physicians up to $44,000 for implementing a certified Electronic Health Record and utilizing it in a “meaningful” way. |
| Study Shows Bar-Code Technology, eMAR Reduce Medication Errors Posted: 07 May 2010 08:14 AM PDT A new study funded by the Department of Health and Human Services’ Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality shows using bar-code technology with an electronic medication administration record (eMAR) substantially reduces transcription and medication errors, in addition to reducing potential drug-related adverse events. Bar-code eMAR is a combination of technologies meant to ensure that the correct medication is administered in the correct dose at the correct time to the correct patient. Nurses are required to scan and match bar codes on a patient’s wristband and then on the medication to be administered. If it is not time for a patient’s dose, or the bar codes do not match, a warning is issued. Comparing 6,723 medication administrations before bar-code eMAR was introduced with 7,318 medication administrations after bar-code eMAR was introduced, researchers at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston documented a 41 percent reduction in non-timing administration errors and a 51 percent reduction in potential drug-related adverse events associated with this kind of error. Errors in timing of medication administration fell by 27 percent. Currently, eMAR technology is being considered as a 2013 criterion for meaningful use of health information technology under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. |
| HCA Files Registration for IPO Posted: 07 May 2010 07:48 AM PDT HCA Inc. (Nashville) has filed a registration with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for an initial public offering of approximately $4 billion of shares of its common stock to be sold by HCA and certain existing shareholders. The company expects that approximately $2.5 billion will represent new shares sold by HCA. BofA Merrill Lynch, Citi and J.P. Morgan are serving as joint book-running managers of the offering and representatives of the underwriters. Barclays Capital, Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank Securities, Goldman, Sachs & Co., Morgan Stanley and Wells Fargo Securities are also acting as joint book-running managers of the offering. Through its 162 hospitals and 106 freestanding surgery centers across 20 states throughout the U.S. and in England, HCA is the largest non-governmental hospital operator in the nation. It is an integrated provider of healthcare and related services. |
| Posted: 5/7/2010 © Miami Herald The union says that firing more than 170 healthcare professionals would greatly damage Jackson's ability to provide quality care. |
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