Electronic medical record keeping places demands on IT execs at hospitals
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BOSTON - It's a rainy April evening in Danville, Pa. The sidewalks on Mill Street are empty. Once-handsome 19th century brick facades are faded and the storefronts--Dollar Store, D's Clothier--are dark. Two small restaurants and a bar are open, but empty--or nearly so--adding weight to the street's designation as a "historic" business district. The scene here is a common one in rural Pennsylvania and in small towns throughout the United States, where economies built on agriculture and manufacturing have given way in recent decades to a low-wage, service-sector economy and its placeless landscape of strip malls and chain stores. A tension between old and new can be felt everywhere in Danville (population roughly 4,900), which was settled on the banks of the Susquehanna River in 1777 by William Montgomery. His 1792 stone house--now a museum--still stands at the end of Mill Street, directly across the street from a Wendy's restaurant.
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The U.S. defense and veterans affairs agencies have started sharing some medical data with each other. But they still can't fully exchange the electronic health records of patients, despite nine years of IT work.
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The introduction of electronic patient records as part of a Â£6.8bn NHS IT upgrade comes under attack from MPs.
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Many companies are playing a bigger role in managing and monitoring their workersâ health in an effort to cut health care costs.
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Mark Hopkins, CIO of academic and community hospitals at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, says administrative management positions help expose him to the business side of health care.
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When folks in the health-care field start crapping all over a major data collection institute such as the Canadian Institute for Health Information, you know that they&#39;re a little on the defensive.
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More and more organizations are transforming their IT departments into self-sustaining business units, treating internal users as if they were external customers. And for good reason, says Dennis Drogseth, vice president of Enterprise Management Associates, an IT management consultancy.
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A medical center CIO shares best practices when PDAs, BlackBerries, smart phones and the like must be hooked up to your network.
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Health care advocates say government support of electronic data can improve care and prevent errors.
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Health industry, tech firms, government agencies might collaborate to build a secure database of patient records.
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BALTIMORE - Health care organizations not considering offshore outsourcing are missing out on significant cost savings, but administrators need to be aware of potential risks, including lax handling of data security by some vendors and the effect on employee morale, a health care IT analyst said Tuesday.
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Only two months ago, the Emergency Department at Inova Fair Oaks Hospital was piled high with patient charts: files clogged with physicians' notes and nurses' follow-throughs, with test orders and lab results and a plethora of other printouts and paperwork. As in most EDs, keeping track of everyt...
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CHICAGO -- A medical accreditation group says too many patients are waking up during surgery and hospitals need to do more to prevent the incidents.
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Better planning and more consultation needed The Electronic Patient Record project needs better planning, more consultation and a new timetable, say MPs.â¦
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Five large companies said they will begin next year to provide their employees access to an electronic medical record system that will be used to help reduce the hefty costs of health care.
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Compliance with federal regulations requires extreme care. On the other hand, users are walking out of your office carrying high-risk data on mobile devices.  What's an IT manager to do?
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As e-mail becomes part of official business records, companies are looking to install archiving systems to make sure documents are available in case legal or compliance issues arise.