ADVANCE for Health Information Executives

A New Dawn for Computer-assisted Coding

By Mary Bessinger, MBA, RHIA, CCS, CPHQ — November 4, 2009

Motivated by the upcoming ICD-10 transition, and incented by ARRA, hospitals should embrace CAC to drive clinical, financial and operational performance improvement.

Audio Slideshow: Recession and Health Care

November 4, 2009

The turbulent economy makes it difficult for many Americans to afford health care. For many, losing a job means the loss of employer-sponsored health insurance while some working Americans find themselves underinsured and facing medical hardships. Across the nation patients are making tough medical decisions as the nation now turns its attention to possible solutions with a national health care program. Press the play button, and click through our photo gallery and listen to this exclusive audio

Brooklyn Health Information Exchange Builds on Its Success

By Robert N. Mitchell — November 4, 2009

Technology builds and supports new infrastructure for exchanging data.

Nov. 2, 2009 -- Study: iPhone, Android Beat BlackBerry, Smartphones

November 2, 2009

Smartphones with consumer-oriented functionality scored the highest marks in a recent customer satisfaction study released by CFI Group.

Smartphones, led by Apple's iPhone and including Google's Android and Palm Pre, are bringing in new customers no longer dominated by business users, according to "The CFI Group Smartphone Satisfaction Study." Based on a survey of more than 1,000 users, the study also found little relationship between smartphone satisfaction and satisfaction with the

Nov. 4, 2009 -- eWebHealth Releases Next Generation Platform for eWebHIM Technology Suite

November 4, 2009

eWebHealth, a provider of electronic workflow applications for medical records, has made available its new, fully hosted .NET platform supporting its eWebHIM technology suite. This next generation supports interoperability with a range of hospital IT systems, and is designed to allow hospitals to more easily integrate health record technology with their clinical electronic health record strategies, according to the company.

The eWebHealth technology suite is delivered via a sof

Nov. 4, 2009 -- Howard University Hospital Patients Adopt PHR to Manage Diabetes

November 4, 2009

Howard University has announced that hundreds of diabetic patients at the Howard University Hospital's Diabetes Treatment Center have adopted an online personal health record (PHR) from NoMoreClipboard.com, and are actively using it to communicate with their doctors and manage their disease.

The center is one of the first health care providers in the Washington, D.C., area to integrate the hospital's electronic medical record with a patient-focused PHR to manage

Nov. 4, 2009 -- Iowa Health System Launches Electronic Prescribing Initiative

November 4, 2009

Iowa Health System and Allscripts have partnered to offer ePrescribe Iowa, a free Web-based e-prescribing application to physicians throughout Iowa.

ePrescribe Iowa automates the process of writing prescriptions and transmitting them to pharmacies while alerting physicians to potentially dangerous drug-to-drug interactions, drug allergies, dosage errors and other problems that can occur when writing prescriptions on paper.

The stand-alone solution provided by I

Nov. 4, 2009 -- KLAS Report Examines DMI Market

November 4, 2009

A new report from KLAS explores the landscape for document management and imaging (DMI) applications, and finds that many hospitals use DMI to help ease the transition from paper records to electronic medical records (EMRs).

The KLAS report, "Enterprise DMI: Finding the Right Stepping Stone to Full EMR," evaluated the DMI technology of 14 vendors, based on the feedback of their customers. While the study acknowledges that DMI -- which provides scanning, indexing and archiving of paper

Nov. 4, 2009 -- Picis Wins Department of Veterans Affairs Contracts

November 4, 2009

Picis, a Wakefield, Mass.-based provider of information applications, has been awarded two Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) contracts by the Veterans Integrated Service Network (VISN) 10, also known as the VA Healthcare System of Ohio.

VISN has selected Picis Anesthesia Manager, PACU Manager and Critical Care Manager, part of the CareSuite family of high-acuity applications, to help clinicians better manage the clinical workflow and financial functions in anesthesia a

Nov. 6, 2009 -- Forrester Analyzes Technology Adoption in the Workplace

November 6, 2009

The inaugural Forrester Research Workforce Technographics survey, designed to show the technology adoption habits of information workers (iWorkers), determined that while email and desktop computers are ubiquitous, few other applications or devices are, and that more experienced employees -- not Generation Y -- are the leading users of social technology on the job.

The findings, released at Forrester's recent Business Technology Forum, are contained in the report, "The State of

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