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New OR Workflows Helps Reduce $5 Billion in Supply Chain Waste

by Fred Pennic 08/18/2015 Leave a Comment

Every year, more than $5 billion is wasted on expired, lost or uncaptured medical device and implantable charges. While this supply chain waste is pervasive throughout entire health systems, the intricacy of managing high-value items is exceptionally demanding in the operating room (OR). To help address waste in the OR, Cardinal Health Inventory Management (CIMS) has launched new, cloud-based automated workflow modules for challenging-to-manage inventory such as biological implants, sutures, and
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Infographic: Healthcare IT’s Transformation Journey

by HITC Staff 08/14/2015 Leave a Comment

The need to reduce costs while caring for an aging population has led to sweeping changes in everything from how patients choose insurers to how doctors are reimbursed and medical records are stored and shared. As a result, the pressures on today’s healthcare CIOs and the data centers they manage are building. Mergers and acquisitions are packing more technology into tighter spaces, growing computational demands are creating crowded equipment racks, and staggering power and cooling requirements
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Rebooting Meaningful Use: Is It Accomplishing Its Mission?

by Our Thought Leaders 05/05/2015 Leave a Comment

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Editor's Note: Dr. Reid Coleman is the Chief Medical Information Officer (CMIO) for evidence-based medicine at Nuance.  Meaningful Use is an important set of criteria designed to improve quality and safety, but is it accomplishing its mission? The proposed rules for Meaningful Use (MU) Stage 3 were just released by both CMS and the ONC.  Many writers have commented on these rules, and this blog post is not a commentary about the rules.  As always, I recommend readers go to John
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Meaningful Use Stage 3 Proposed Rule: 5 Takeaways for Physicians

by Margalit Gur-Arie 03/24/2015 6 Comments

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On March 20, 2015 the stars aligned to produce four simultaneous events that will never again coincide during the life of human civilization. The first three, the vernal equinox, a total solar eclipse and a new supermoon, were brought to us by the stars themselves, and the fourth one was thrown out there by the government. The regulations for Meaningful Use Stage 3 were finally published. Meaningful use of electronic health records (EHR) was presented to us back in 2009 as part of a stimulus
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Is Google Glass the Future of Connected Health?

by Fred Pennic 03/22/2013 36 Comments

Is Google Glass the Future of Connected Health?

7 possibilities that Google Glass could unlock for connected health to enhance the transformation of health care.
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4 Lessons Learned from HIPAA 5010 That’ll Benefit Your ICD-10 Project

by Fred Pennic 07/11/2012 Leave a Comment

Written by Steve Sisko shares 4 lessons learned from HIPAA 5010 that will benefit your ICD-10 project It’s a fact: ICD-10 has far more impact and involves far more change to people, processes and technology than HIPAA 5010. I’m of the opinion that much of the work expended and artifacts created during a HIPAA 5010 project - particularly test plans and test cases - will not lend direct value to an ICD-10 project. But I’m convinced that many organizations learned are a lot of 5010 lessons that
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Video:Understanding NLP Technology with 3M

by Fred Pennic 03/27/2012 Leave a Comment

Imminent delay of ICD-10 has not stopped the healthcare providers who have the foresight to charge ahead in their preparation for ICD-10. One of the biggest components that would assist healthcare organizations in that preparation for ICD-10 is purchasing a Computer Assisted Coding software product. One of the key components of a computer assisted coding product is it's Natural Language Processing (NLP) technology that provides the ability to highlight code-able terms in the patient record by
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Race to the ICD-10 Finish Line Infographic

by Fred Pennic 02/08/2012 Leave a Comment

Infographic highlighting that ICD-10 is almost two Years Away and healthcare organizations must have a plan in order to race to the ICD-10 Finish Line  *Update: CMS has officially delayed ICD-10 to October 1, 2014 With the AMA writing yet another letter, this time to the HHS in hopes of stopping ICD-10. There are no current plans to stop ICD-10 implementation; therefore, with less than one year away, healthcare providers must race to meet the 10/1/13 compliance date. The following
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AMA Continues Onslaught of ICD-10

by Fred Pennic 01/31/2012 Leave a Comment

The AMA(American Medical Association) has upped the stakes in the fight against ICD-10 recently writing a letter to Congress urging lawmakers to stop HIPAA’s required implementation of ICD-10 and to call on stakeholders to assess an appropriate replacement for ICD-9.  AMA is stating that the implementation of ICD-10 will create no additional burdens on the practice of medicine and have no direct benefit to individual patient care, as physicians struggle with other costly transitions associating
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Interview Podcast: ICD-10 Best Practices with Connie Tohara Vol. 1

by Fred Pennic 01/16/2012 1 Comment

October 1, 2013 is less than 2 years away leaving healthcare providers faced with the daunting task of making the transition from ICD-9 to ICD-10. Many organizations have already started to prepare for the implementation while the majority have not begun any preparations until the deadlines looms closer.  HIT Consultant recently spoke with Connie Tohara, Director of Health Information at University of Utah Hospital and Karen Ferrell, Director, Computer-Assisted Physician Documentation (CAPD)
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