Tag Archive for ‘EMPI’

Getting Your Healthcare House in Order in 2012

What does it take to get your healthcare house in order for the New Year? Chad recaps a recent webinar from IBM’s Director of Healthcare Products for Information Management, Sean Cassidy, and discusses how to start building a trusted healthcare information platform.

3 Best Practices in Identity Management

As part of the HIMSS Virtual Briefing series, Lorraine Fernandes presented three best practices in identity management. Learn which practices are essential to proper, efficient identity management.

Get Your Healthcare House in Order

Before they can worry about Meaningful Use or accountable care, healthcare organizations must get their own houses in order. Michelle has three steps to ensure you’re ready to tackle the next health IT challenges.

IBM Initiate At HIMSS11

IBM Initiate has several customer sessions on tap for HIMSS 11. Join us for any of these sessions, or stop by for a demo.

Collaborative Care Across a Community: Huntington’s Story

Last week we were privileged to have Rebecca Armato, Executive Director of Huntington Memorial Hospital in Pasadena, CA, share her experience with care collaboration. The webinar, “Enabling Care Collaboration & Ensuring ‘Right Care, Right Place, Right Time,’” chronicled Huntington’s journey to connected care. Like many other hospitals, integrated delivery networks, health information exchanges and other [...]

Accurate Identification: A Universal Requirement for eHealth!

Accurate, real-time identification is at the top of agendas of health exchanges around the globe. Penny shares her impressions of the recent Global eHealth Forum in Hamburg.

HIE Lessons from Above the 49th Parallel

Canada was one of the first countries to take a comprehensive approach to health IT adoption through a multi-stakeholder approach, including the regional health authorities, provinces and federal government. Lorraine shares some of the secrets of their success.

Two Approaches to Statewide Patient Identification

The health IT community cannot agree on the best way to achieve successful patient identification while eliminating risk. Dr. Schumacher lays out the pros and cons of the two most common RLS approaches: a central, statewide patient registry and a decentralized RLS.

Ditch the Clipboard: Strategies for HIE Success

Back in the old days – even just ten years ago – doctors, nurses and other healthcare providers carried around clipboards with paper files for each patient.

But clipboards didn’t begin to address the challenges of accurately identifying the patient and provider, and there were significant costs in transcribing and managing the resulting stacks of paper. Penny explains how Sutter Health has moved beyond paper records.

Questions from MMIS: Next Steps for HIEs

Marty reacts to the recent Medicaid Management Information Systems (MMIS) Conference with a host of questions that are still awaiting answers.