Category: Analytics

HIMSS Analytics, a division of the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS), has announced that Emory-Adventist Hospital, located in Smyrna, Ga., has received the acute care Stage 7 award, and that Mount Sinai Queens in Astoria, N.Y. has reached Stage 6 status on theHIMSS Electronic Medical Record Adoption Model (EMRAM). HIMSS Analytics, a division…

Intermountain Healthcare, in collaboration with consulting firm Deloitte, unveiled a data analytics tool this week that will leverage information from electronic health records improve patient treatment efforts via comparative effectiveness research. read more Source: Intermountain, Deloitte launch comparative effectiveness tool

Training, support and managing anxiety are key to the implementation of computerized physician order entry systems, according to research published this week in BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making. read more Source: 3 keys for successful CPOE implementation

The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives, the American Medical Informatics Association and a bevy of other healthcare information technology stakeholders want the federal government to tread carefully in its efforts to regulate the industry. read more …read more Source: CHIME, others want feds to take their time with health IT regulation

Some CIOs blame told KLAS they blame meaningful use for Meditech 6.0’s immaturity, believing that Meditech would have had more resources to improve the product if it were not devoting so much time to meeting certification requirements. We have heard some observers say that the meaningful use requirements could have unintended consequences in the health…

With a data warehouse's foundational architecture in place as part of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center's $100 million analytics effort, researchers recently were able to electronically integrate clinical and genomic information on 140 breast cancer patients. read more …read more Source: UPMC data warehouse allows integration of clinical, genomic data

@HIMSS analytics: dose-response between EMR adoption level and hospital profitability @govHIT pic.twitter.com/pkLPn8vX2W — Farzad Mostashari (@Farzad_ONC) June 11, 2013 This is an interesting graph. I’m amazed that the hospitals were willing to give out their operating margin. Of course, some of them are public and so that information is available publicly. It does seem to…

Senator Patty Murray (D-Wash.) has recently critiqued the Department of Defense (DOD) and the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) for their inability to create a joint, integrated electronic health record (EHR) system. Senator Patty Murray (D-Wash.) has recently critiqued the Department of Defense (DOD) and the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) for their inability to…

Recently, the Orem, Utah-base KLAS Research looked at how various vendors rated ambulatory EMR usability. In an exclusive interview, the report’s author, KLAS’ Mark Wagner, talks about how providers define usability and what areas of the EMR were most important to that score. He also mentions why certain vendors outperformed others. Usability in an electronic…

Critical IT initiatives such as CPOE are straining IT resources and budgets as meaningful use deadlines loom. Healthcare is increasingly data driven. Hospital IT leaders face challenges not only in keeping pace with new initiatives but also in manage a growing collec- tion of legacy data systems. As new HIT systems are implemented, multiple legacy…