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Inside Healthcare Computing 2008 Annual Archive (CD-ROM)

$199

Need best practices, tips, and ideas? You'll get all that and more with this 2008 issue compilation from Inside Healthcare Computing -- over 100 articles chronicling the big events in 2008 -- vendor news, the latest in EMR and health information exchanges, implementation stories, and advice from your peers about managing your IT shop, negotiating with vendors, and building partnerships with stakeholders.

On this CD-ROM, you'll also receive industry blogger MrHIStalk's 2008 editorials, written exclusively for Inside Healthcare Computing subscribers and not available from any other source.

A Sampling of What's Included:

• Medical Center’s In-House Development of a PHR System Pays Off
• Small Hospital Provides Valuable Implementation Lessons for Health System
• Our Take: It’s a New IT Game That Only Some Hospital CIOs Will Win
• Investment in Health IT by Telus May Signal Eye on U.S. EHR Market
• Cleveland Clinic/Microsoft Pilot Seeks to Improve Patient Care, Increase Efficiency of Office Visits
• Investment in In-House Applications Development Pays Off for Hospital
• Involvement by Nurses Critical to IT Success
• Our Take: A Lesson from the Financial Crisis - Companies Will Not Admit Problems, Even Huge Ones
• Will Multi-Billion Dollar Investment Spur EMR Adoption? What Obama's Proposal May Mean for Health Care Providers
• The Red Flags Rule: What Your IT Department Needs to Know
• Forecast: Health IT Spending Will Increase
• Strategic Governance and IT: Making the Most out of the CIO/Board Relationship
• Specter of Medical Identity Theft Looms Large: What You Need To Know
• 10 Tips for Negotiating a Contract That Protects Your Interests
• Hospital Uses Vocera Technology to Better Respond to Patients’ Needsty
• Biometric Solution Protects Patient Identity, Simplifies Registration
• Our Take: 10 Ways to Keep Your Healthcare IT Job in Today’s Economy
• Creating Win-Win Relationships with Your Vendors
• New Building Provides Leverage for EMR Adoption
• Hospital’s Technology Investment Improves Patient Care and Safety
• Our Take: The Convergence of Physician and Inpatient Systems Advances the Industry
• Why Can’t I Do That on an iPhone? What Mobile Clinicians Want From Next Generation Portable Devices
• CIOs: Hospital IT Outsourcing Makes Strategic Sense - Sometimes
• Attorneys: IT Practices & Contract Language Can Prevent PHI Exposure by Outsourcers
• Our Take: Now’s the Time to Kill Some IT Projects and Systems
• Integrated Voice Recognition Saves Radiologist Time, Gets Reports Out Faster at Two Hospitals
• Expert Names Three Technology Developments That Will Most Affect Hospital CIOs in 2-5 Years
• Pagers and Paper Are Archaic, Doctor Says, But IT Alternatives May Impede Physician-Nurse Communication
• Massachusetts EMR Pilot Project Achieves High Physician Adoption, Plans Expansion
• Piedmont Shares Details of HIPAA Audit, Omitting ‘How to Hack Piedmont’ Details
• EMR-Using Solo Physician Says Hospitals Need to Understand the Small Practice Culture
• Physician Group Turns to “Mini-EMR” Portal After EMR Interest Lags
• California Hospital Runs Production Interfaces through Mirth Open Source Integration Engine
• Research & Development vs. Sales & Marketing: What's Your Vendor Spending?
• Health System Develops Employee Scheduling Best Practices, Reports Improvements with Automated System
• New Texas Health Resources CIO Edward Marx Focuses on IT Strategic Plan, Alignment, Quick Technology Wins
• Davies-Winning Hospital Uses Scripting Tool to Create Paper Backup for Clinical System Downtime
• Nurse-Developed Palliative Care Application Improves Patient Care
• West Georgia Health System Pilots MEDITECH's New C/S Platform
• Physician, Vendor Agree: EMRs Should Be More Intuitive, Require Less Time, and Hide Irrelevant Information
• UPMC Connects to Emergency Medical and Physician EMRs Using Integration Technology
• Hospital Reports Major Transcription Improvement with New System
• Our Take: Big Provider Groups Lead EMR Adoption for the Right Reasons
• Hospital Replaces MedSeries 4 with MEDITECH, Goes Live on a New WIreless Network in One Year
• Neurologists Use Telemedicine for Fast, Remote Stroke Diagnosis
• ECIOs Automated Forms Project Saves Money, Improves Quality
• HIPAA-Safe Data Destruction: Freeware, Services, and Appliances Provide Options for Removing Data from Discarded Drives
• Kaiser's Personal Health Records System; Two Million Users and Growing
• Cancer Centers Go Big Bang with Clinical and Financial Systems Evidence-Based, Multi-Disciplinary Order Sets Pave the Road to CPOE
• Our Take: Going Live on Software is Just One Step in The Journey
• Contract Details: State of West Virginia’s Medsphere OpenVista Implementation
• Patient Safety Project Wrapping Up at Children’s Hospital; eMAR and ICU are Toughest Challenges
• Tiny Hospital Reaches Stage 6 EMR Adoption, Moves On to Interfacing Clinical Equipment
• Landmark Medical Center Implements Commercialized Version of BIDMC's ED Dashboard
• MemorialCare Offers Epic's Ambulatory EMR to 3,200 Community Physicians
• Texas Hospital Reaches Highest EMR Level Using an Open Source System
• CCHIT Not Good Enough for Privacy, Says Founder of New EHR Privacy Certification
• Adventist Creates Quality Dashboard Using Cerner EMR Systems
• Cleveland Clinic Avoids $20 Million in Denials in One Year Using IT-Recommended $1800 Software Package
• Our Take: CIO Innovation Must be Appropriate for Culture
• Making the Venture Capital Pitch: One Small Company’s Experience at the HIMSS Health IT Venture Fair
• Parkland’s ED Kiosks Eliminate “Barbaric” Triage Wait Times
• iPhone Enterprise Announcements Pave Way for Healthcare Applications
• Our Take: Stage 6 EMR Hospitals Prove That Excellence Doesn’t Require Huge Budgets or Big Name Applications
• Free Site Adds Referrals, Secure Information Exchange to Physician Social Networking
• Our Take: Standardized Order Sets Ensure Clinical Systems Success
• Hospital Improves ED Discharge Rate by Replacing Doctors with Scribes for EMR "Secretarial Work"
• Hospital's IT Grant Pays for Early Involvement in Cardiology Data Program
• Recent Vendor Layoffs Don't Necessarily Suggest a Market Slowdown, Experts Say
• Study Finds Use of Bedside Medication Barcoding Minimal and Growing Slowly
• CIOs Say Functionality Outweighs Price, Peer Advice Trumps Advertising
• Grundy County Memorial Hospital's ED System Purchase: A Small Hospital Pays a Small Price
• Our Take: Hospitals and Systems Vendors Need to Stop Waffling on Barcode Verification of Medications
• Children's Hospital Designs New 72-Bed Facility with Information Technology in Mind
• CIO Says Clinical Background of IT Staff Helps Move Big Systems Projects Forward
• Physician's Video E-mails Provide Cheap, Easy, and Personal Patient Communication
• CIO's Internal Blog Helps IT Employees to Feel Connected