Information Exchange
Information Exchange
Riding the Cloud to Improve Patient Safety
After nearly 30 years as a practicing physician, I don’t have a day go by in my practice where a patient would not benefit from more timely availability of records from other institutions. Now, however, thanks to cloud computing, the delays and inappropriate repetitive testing attributable to unavailable records may finally be coming to an end. The limitation is no longer the technology itself but simply the speed of adoption.
Health IT & Quality
Health IT & Quality
Show Me the Money
The most important lesson in medical care comes from a bank robber who stole more than $2 million and spent more than half his life in jail. Named for Willie Sutton, one of the most prolific bank robbers in history, Sutton’s law grew out of a famous response to a reporter’s question attributed (perhaps falsely) to Sutton.
Fortify HIT Contracts with Education and Ethics to Protect Patient Safety, Say Informatics Experts
An original and progressive report on health information technology (HIT) vendors, their customers and patients, published online, makes ground-breaking recommendations for new practices that target the reduction or elimination of tensions that currently mar relationships between many HIT vendors and their customers, specifically with regard to indemnity and error management of HIT systems.
Statewide Initiative Launched to Help Ensure Patients Receive Appropriate High-Tech Diagnostic Imaging Exams
A new initiative launched by the Institute for Clinical Systems Improvement (ICSI, www.icsi.org), a nonprofit, health care improvement organization, could save the Minnesota health care community more than $28 million annually, as well as improve patient care and provider groups’ productivity.
HIMSS Launches New CPOE Wiki
Top U.S. Academic Medical Center Installs Teletacking Tranfercenter™ Software
The American Hospital Association Awards the Exclusive AHA Endorsement to AT&T Healthcare Information Exchange Services
RF Surgical Pioneers Detection and Prevention of Retained Foreign Objects in Surgery With Its Next Generation RF Assure™ Detection System
RF Surgical Systems, Inc., the market leader in the prevention and detection of retained surgical sponges, announced the availability of the RF Assure™ Detection System Model 200.
Delaware Physicians Create Unique Patient Connectivity Environment
7th Annual Connected-Health Symposium
On October 21 and 22nd, I had the opportunity to attend a symposium in Boston, organized by the Center for Connected Health, which is a division of Partners Healthcare.