Europe and America clasp hands across the water on healthcare information standards at meeting of CEN Technical Committee 251.
Europe and America clasp hands across the water on healthcare information standards at meeting of CEN Technical Committee 251.
Healthcare strategist Paul Ellwood tells Computers in Healthcare that major health reform initiatives he was instrumental in developing will be debated in Congress this fall and stand a good chance of passing into law. The outcomes reporting aspect of the reform package has significant implications for I/S and for the computer-based patient record.
As healthcare organizations move from isolated departments to integrated information sharing, who will pilot this change? Both the director and manager of pathology data systems at the University of Michigan Hospitals in Ann Arbor suggest vendors, system integrators and hospital administrators put aside competition and try a new concept--"coopetition"--to solve the problem.
A diverse group of users, vendors, employers, insurers and government officials met in Washington in July for the Computer-Based Patient Record Institute's First Annual Meeting. Deemed "the focal point" of legislation demanding automated patient records, their task was to overcome a myriad of differences and form a true coalition that can meet an ambitious, and some say unrealistic, deadline.
Sunquest's president and chief executive officer, Sidney Goldblatt, M.D., says the inefficient way information is shared in healthcare is "stupid" and wouldn't be tolerated in other industries. Until the public becomes impatient and strident about flagrant waste and begins to demand most cost-effective methods in healthcare, true change will take a lot longer.
Mixing laboratory trends with new technology, the changing market and today's vendors is a little like using a high-speed centrifuge to separate blood, yet nowhere near as accurate. Are interfaces, portability and UNIX going to come out in high percentages? Lab expert Gary Braley sorts out the situation.
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