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The push toward patient safety and technology effectiveness has begun to loosen the traditional boundaries between the worlds of information technology and clinical engineering.

In this era of robust information technology, systems should be improved to address the problems of human error in healthcare delivery, according to a participant in an e-session at the HIMSS meeting Wednesday. At the same time, solutions must be found for the critical problems of productivity in hospitals.

Certification of information technology products moved to the front burner last year, with the formation of the Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology (CCHIT) dedicated to establishing a product certification process.

The electronic medical record provides an automated way to deal with the added complexity evaluators face as they attempt to measure not only what today’s medical residents know, but also how well they perform using that knowledge.

Today's technology makes it possible for increasingly large networks to share medical information, and HIMSS attendees received an inside look at one Tuesday: a regional collaborative initiative operated by the Massachusetts Health Data Consortium. The initiative promotes the interorganizational exchange of healthcare data using information technology, standards, and administrative simplification. The role of the collaborative is to deliver the goal in seven to 10 years.

In an update to its Composite HealthCare System patient record, the Department of Defense Military Health System has moved away from an institution-centered electronic medical record and toward a more centralized model that focuses on the patient.

If healthcare is willing to change its process and organization, the future can be exciting, Cisco president and CEO John Chambers told a keynote audience at the HIMSS meeting Tuesday morning.

Regional health information organizations are popping up across the country in response to the “Framework for strategic action,” published by Dr. David Brailer, National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, Department of Health and Human Services.

Hype took center stage in an education session at the HIMSS meeting, “Hype aside, what’s really happening in U.S. healthcare IT?”

In its second survey of data warehouse use in healthcare organizations, the HIMSS Data Warehouse and Data Mining Special Interest Group reports that hospitals are branching out in the ways they use data repositories to improve their business operations.

Finding success in the world of HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) is much easier with the System Development Life Cycle to guide the implementation process, according to an e-session presented at the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society meeting taking place in Dallas this week.

When it comes to the daunting task of adopting an electronic medical record, healthcare facilities should identify their information needs before making an EMR purchase, according to a health information management consultant.

The 2005 Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society conference played host this week to a virtual regional health information organization. The society claimed it was the largest interoperability demonstration ever.

The success of PACS is not in dispute. One-half of all U.S. hospitals in the HIMSS database either have PACS installed or are in the process of implementation.

The current healthcare delivery system produces enough pain that a change to an electronic medical record (EMR) makes sense, according to an e-session presented at the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society meeting in Dallas.

Although decision support alerts may help to reduce errors and improve efficiency, many physicians choose to ignore them, according to a study conducted at the University of Illinois in Chicago.

Running a hospital isn’t much different from running an airline, according to Howard Putnam. The former CEO of Southwest Airlines was a last minute stand-in at the opening session of the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society meeting Monday morning. Sun Microsystems’ CEO Scott McNealy could not appear as scheduled.

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The recent advances in speech technology and hardware, coupled with proven financial and patient care benefits, have executives at hospitals and healthcare facilities strongly considering incorporating speech recognition into their informatics

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