Do’s and Don’ts of hospital health IT
Shahid N. Shah, The Healthcare IT Guy
“Last year I started a series of “Do’s and Dont’s” in hospital tech by focusing on wireless technologies.
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Hospitals Slow To Convert Paper Records, And May Not Know How To Manage Them
Katherine Rourke, EMR and EHR
“Anyone who’s been around the HIT block a few times knows that the conversion from paper to digital records is going to be much uglier than the public thinks. This new study from vendor Iron Mountain, however, offers some details that surprised even a cynic like myself.
The study, which surveyed 200 health information pros, asked them how they were doing with scanning paper medical records and how they expected to use the paper archives in the future.”
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Katherine Rourke, EMR and EHR, 13 July 2011
Scanning an expensive nightmare for many hospitals
Ken Terry, FierceHealthIT
“Nearly one-fourth of the 200 facilities that responded to a new survey conducted by document management and storage firm Iron Mountain said they are spending $100 million or more to scan paper documents. What’s more, 36 percent of those hospitals plan to hold onto their paper records after they’re digitized.
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Scanning and Document Management in an EHR
Alan Brookstone, American EHR
“As practices migrate from paper records to EHRs, there are millions of paper charts that need to be partially or completely digitized and archived or incorporated into EHRs. What are the principles and guidelines that practices should follow in terms of scanning and archiving paper records?
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Case Study: Document Mgmt. Sets Stage for EHR
James Bowden, HDM Breaking News
Since I became director of patient financial services at Palisades Medical Center in North Bergen, N.J., in 2008, I’ve been on a mission to round up and digitize every paper document related to patient care before we begin our EHR installation in 2011. By the time Palisades goes live with Siemens’ Soarian system, all of our patient billing information will be under the control of a document imaging and management system.
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Printing Electronic Health Records: Healthcare’s Oxymoron
Shea Steinberg, EHR Bloggers
“When we think of EHRs we think of erasing the need for paper charts. But do we ever think about what happens when a patient needs their records sent to them? While some physicians are thinking of creative ways to electronically send patient records, most still print them out.
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Document management will enhance clinician experience, help paperless transition
Healthcare IT News
“University Hospitals, a large health system serving Northeast Ohio, has laid out a very strategic health IT plan. UH, which includes a major academic medical center, community hospitals, outpatient health centers, outpatient surgical centers, urgent care centers, cancer centers and other facilities, has been rolling out its inpatient electronic medical record system in a measured fashion.
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Dell scores one in health IT
Dana Blankenhorn, ZDNet Healthcare
“A few days ago I had a little fun at Dell’s expense.
Today I want to praise them, not just for a technology, but for what that technology tells us about health IT.
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Getting rid of cut-and-paste functionality in EHRs
Patty Enrado, EHRWatch
“A recent editorial in the American Journal of Medicine highlights the dangers of cutting and pasting data in an electronic health record.
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Ipswich Hospital is first to embrace next generation electronic document management solution
Hospital IT Europe
“Autonomy Corporation plc Kainos today announced the launch of Evolve, a next-generation Electronic Document Management solution which enables instant and secure access to patient medical records through Autonomy’s unique Meaning Based Computing solutions.
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iSOFT Enters Partnership with Gateway Computing for EDMS Solution
eHealthNews.eu
“iSOFT Group Limited, one of the world’s largest healthcare information technology companies, has entered into a partnership with Gateway Computing Ltd to deliver an electronic document management solution (EDMS) to the NHS, called WinDIP Enterprise.
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Paper records more actively managed
Jon Hoeksma, e-Health Europe
“A study has found that paper records are more likely to be actively managed than electronic counterparts.
According to a survey carried out by the AIMM, an industry body focusing on electronic content
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AIIM Industry Watch Electronic Records Management
AIIM
In most organizations, electronic records are still taken less seriously than paper records. Responsibility for applying good records management practice to electronic records would seem to reside in the IT Department rather than in the Records Department, and even where good policies exist, they are often not monitored or enforced.
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Europe poised for exponential growth in digitized medical imaging storage space
Sam Collins, Healthcare IT News EU
“Medical images are increasingly becoming digitized. However, the exponential growth of digitized medical images poses an immense challenge in terms of management, compression and retrieval.
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Doctors and the DEA
“Proposed rules that would let doctors electronically prescribe controlled substances could raise the security bar in ways that frustrate health care providers.
E-prescribing is in a bit of a bind. The practice is caught between a federal directive that aims to encourage adoption and another that serves to inhibit use.”
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John Moore, Government Health IT, 26 September 2008
Document Management: Putting Together the Pieces
“Many health care organizations initially used document management systems for relatively small projects. A lot of these early projects focused on meeting the needs of billing, medical records and registration departments.”
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Beckie Kelly Schuerenberg, Health Data Management, 1 August 2007
