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How electronic is your medical facility?

The "most wired" assessment is a great way to obtain an assessment of where you are on your mission of building towards an electronic medial center and meaningful use.  I have completed the Most Wired assessment [+]

Benefits of Healthcare Business Intelligence (BI) in Technology Usage

In an increasingly competitive world, using new technology smartly, customers can make or break the success of your company. Medical sectors are facing a lot of global challenges today. The use of newest technology greatly [+]

7 Clinic Safety Technologies that you should know

The integrity of the clinical technology ensures a consistency in their systems and processes. Clinical data management serves to be the most important basic routine. So, there should be flexibility and focus [+]

Most Wired 2011 is Open

One of the important performance improvement needs for an HIT department is to have measurements that are actionable & comparable.  The Most Wired Survey can give you exactly that.  The Most Wired Survey results are [+]

Shared services can have great value in healthcare

Shared services involve the ‘sharing’ of services within organizations so as to run the concerned organizations in a more cost effective and efficient manner. The roles of the shared services centre can vary within the [+]

Make sure to practice Performance Improvement in your hospital or clinic

Health systems are continually innovating and have made great strides in the quality of care provided to patients. This may be attributed to advances in medical technology, medicines and medical procedures. However, compelling evidence demonstrates [+]

How E-Health Can Affect Quality in Clinical Setting

Even though e-Health has been around for many years, it can be called a relatively new concept. Earlier, e-health services were unorganized and were in nascent stage due to lack of big [+]

Quality of care in Minnesota is all over the map

Minnesota's core newspaper, the Star Tribune, has released a report showing that quality of care is all over the place: The report turned up some glaring gaps in the way different clinics follow what experts [+]

The Benefits of E-prescribing for Today’s Physician

Overview: E-prescribing refers to an emerging solution that improves patient safety and helps reduce rising healthcare costs as well. According to a study, more than 7,000 people die in US due to wrong [+]

Quality in Healthcare Risk Management

http://medicalstudentblog.co.uk Risk management seeks to reduce potential negative impacts on patients, staff and the organization through the identification and reduction of potential dangers or threats (Authenticity Consulting, LLC., 2010). However, in [+]

Proving Outcomes with Health Information Technology

Population based medicine can be very challenging.  The creation of Health Information Systems make it possible to prove outcomes in a large patient population without the massive staff needs of paper systems. [+]

101 Tips to make your EMR / EHR more useful

Electronic Medical Records and Electronic Health Records (EMR / EHR) are complex beasts of software that can completely redefine the way physicians, nurses, pharmacists, and other clinicians / providers practice medicine. This list of tips come [+]

101 Tips for your EMR: 39-20 Safety Tips

Patient Safety is the key reason for the adoption of electronic medical records.  Even though the health care industry has been able to raise considerable doubts about the cost savings and efficiency gains of EMRs, [+]

Crap Process plus technology equals fast crap. Take a moment today to think process improvement

Health systems are continually innovating and have made great strides in the quality of care provided to patients. This may be attributed to advances in medical technology, medicines and medical procedures. However, compelling evidence demonstrates [+]

101 Tips for purchasing your EMR: 79-60 Quality Tips

Safety and Quality are the two key drivers for EMR adoption. Quality improvement is incredibly difficult, but an EMR gives you a real leg up. You will be able to obtain data that [+]

Bedside Medication Verification

Medication errors are associated with a significant amount of deaths. According to the Institute of Medicine, around 1.5 million medication errors occur every year that result in about 7,000 deaths. Astonishingly, 70% [+]

Don’t miss Discovery Channel documentary on patient safety

Mayo Clinic participated in a four-part patient safety documentary, "Chasing Zero: Winning the War on Healthcare Harm," which will focus on ordinary changes in health care delivery. These changes bring about extraordinary improvements in quality [+]

Vision 2020 Health IT

http://www.tagtvonline.com features the entire video program. View Part One of the TAG Health Society "Vision 2020" meeting which explored the challenges, practical ideas and timelines for how Georgia can move into the next [+]

EMR Quality Reporting & Dashboards for Community Health Centers

What trends drive Business Intelligence at Community Health Centers today? How can Business Intelligence dashboards help CHCs report on their data more effectively and improve patient care? Find out in this video featuring a presentation [+]

Three Health Care Organizations win Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award

The National Baldrige Awards have been announced.  THREE of the winners were health care facilities: AtlantiCare, Egg Harbor Township, N.J. (health care) Heartland Health, St. Joseph, Mo. (health care) VA Cooperative Studies Program Clinical Research Pharmacy Coordinating [+]

Value of Electronic Medical Records… CASE STUDIES

The folks on Twitter last night were getting pretty excited on the #healthcomm discussions.  Several people asked for case studies of the benefits of Electronic Medical Records.  This is what I found with 15 minutes [+]

Project Management Professional Quick Sheet

Here is a very handy, simple image to use when you study for your PMP test!  Compliments of Jamie. [caption id="attachment_115" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="All domains of the PMP in a simple to view layout"][/caption] [+]

The Information Technology and Performance Improvement Relationship

What is Information Technology? I will often answer that question with “we are a damned expensive performance improvement department.” That isn’t exactly true. However, what is true is that your medical center’s Information Technology [+]

Keep your high quality IT staff

One of the chief problems any IT manager has is keeping good staff. This is especially the case in health care. High quality IT staff don’t typically want to stay in health care. The slow [+]