by administrator on May 10, 2012, at 12:17 pm
Report Writers!
Beginner NPR Report Writer
This workshop has been designed with the beginner in mind and will cover the basics of creating a report.
Magic Syntax for NPR Report Writers
Join us for an introductory computer science class on the “Magic” programming language.
Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz – Wake Up Your NPR Reports With Z Programs
This workshop will provide a comprehensive review of MEDITECH’s Z programs.
Crossing Applications without using Fragments
Advanced topics for NPR report writers.
Data Migration and Conversion – Programming Aspects of Moving Data from MEDITECH via NPR RW
This workshop will cover topics related to data issues using the NPR Report Writer.
Soup to Nuts – Data Repository 101
Join us for an introduction to the DR module in MEDITECH.
Soup to Nuts – Data Repository 102
More DR – learn report writing with Microsoft SQL Server.
Report Designers!
Beginner Report Designer Workshop
Learn how to create reports using the 6.0 Report Designer.
6.0 Report Designer Training
Create customized Report Designer reports.
Report Designer Rules
This workshop will present the fundamentals of the Report Designer rules.
Project Managers!
Project Management 101 for Healthcare IT
This workshop will explore the key concepts and fundamentals behind PMI-based best practice management techniques.
MEDITECH 6.x is the Journey Forward, but What Do We Need to Pack to Get There?
We will discuss planning for the implementation of MEDITECH 6.x.
Migrating MEDITECH MAGIC to 6.x Requires More than Just Fairy Dust!
Attend this workshop that will dissect and analyze each phase of the migration to 6.x.
BPMN – The Advantages of Using this IT Industry Standard for Healthcare Process Redesign
Learn the fundamentals of Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN) and their application to process redesign.
And More!
Interoperability – Are You Ready?
Attend this workshop to delve into the world of HL7 standards.
The Missing Roles of Quality and Evidence Based Practice in EHR Design and Development
Join us to learn about an interactive, interoperable team model for EHR design and development.
Revenue Cycle Performance Improvement: Efficiently Turning Medical Services into Cash
This session will highlight operational and system improvements within MEDITECH that will ensure your Revenue Cycle remains at peak efficiency.
A New CMS Hammer About to Drop: 30-Day Readmissions How to Not Only Avoid Penalties but Improve Patient Care
This session summarizes CMS’ 30-Day Readmission initiative and proposes a comprehensive program to avoid penalties and improve the quality of patient care.
Accessing Low Hanging Fruit Opportunities in Your Hospital to Achieve Dramatic Bottom Line Improvements
This class is designed to identify several significant opportunities for immediate hospital bottom-line improvements.
Learn more.
by administrator on May 10, 2012, at 12:01 pm
The idea of being acquired by a health system — especially one as large as Sentara Health — can be daunting for a CIO. But Mike Rozmus viewed it as an opportunity to work closely with Sentara CIO Bert Reece and to try to emulate some of the success the 11-hospital organization has had in its advanced use of IT. In fact, since the merger last year, Rozmus has already incorporated one of Sentara’s best practices by leveraging physician advisory groups to get buy-in on projects. In this interview, Rozmus talks about other changes he has made since the acquisition, what he’s doing to bridge the inpatient and practice environments, the lessons he’s learned being a Meditech 5.6 beta site, and the challenges of dealing with a heavy workload.
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
- Using NextGen in the practices
- Keeping an eye on LSS
- Marrying the inpatient and physician practice worlds using NextGen HIE — “It gets us half way there”
- Satisfying specialists with primary care-focused EMRs
Listen or read more at healthsystemCIO.com.
by administrator on May 10, 2012, at 11:57 am
Facilitator:
Brian Nelligan, Application Analyst
Humber River Regional Hospital, Weston, Ontario
Panelists:
Money Atwal, CFO/CIO
Hawaii Health Systems Corporation, Hilo, Hawaii
Debbie Bate-Travis, Information Systems Analyst
Humber River Regional Hospital, Weston, Ontario
Michael Froebel, I.T. Clinical Analyst
Hawaii Health Systems Corporation, Hilo, Hawaii
Alicia Garner, Financial Systems Analyst II
Randolph Hospital, Asheboro, North Carolina
Rick Lambert, Systems Integration Consultant
Markham Stouffville Hospital, Markham, Ontario
Register for International MUSE 2012.
by administrator on May 10, 2012, at 11:30 am
Moving to electronic documentation in the emergency department increases patient safety, allows faster turnaround times, improves communication, and ensures proper documentation for reimbursement. Of course this does not come without resistance and fear.
Fitzgibbon Hospital is a small rural facility in mid-Missouri that has been live with EDM since 2011. During this webcast, presenters will discuss the trials, tribulations, and success of this project.
Learn about the keys to success:
- Choosing the right core team members
- Assigning tasks to the core team
- Reviewing core team progress
- Developing educational material
- Parallel testing
- Assignment of reviewing documentation
- GO LIVE!
Plus – post Go LIVE lessons learned.
Presenter: Deborah Lake
RN/BSN, IT Clinical Coordinator, Fitzgibbon Hospital, Marshall, Missouri
May 18th, 2012
2 pm EDT
Register to attend.
by administrator on May 10, 2012, at 9:51 am
In today’s submission I’d like to go over possessives. I was working with a client recently who’s new to the NPR Report Writer. He wrote a report to capture all expired patients discharged within a user-define date range. His report kept producing ‘no records found’ even though he knew patients expired within the date range he entered.
His facility used multiple expired discharge dispositions. There wasn’t one EXP discharge disposition that he could key on, so instead he did the following without defining an OR for each condition in the ‘select relationship.’
Read more at MEDITECH Connect.
by administrator on May 8, 2012, at 12:22 pm
I spend a good deal of time with clients these days who are trying to connect web services, implement service oriented architecture (SOA), and moving to the cloud. All these requirements are focused on integration of multiple, sometimes legacy sometimes modern, systems but most of them still require lots of HL7 interfacing. Some of my clients start their integration efforts hoping that there is something better or more modern than HL7 but the truth is that HL7 and interfacing remains the backbone of health system integration. Choosing an integration tool is time consuming so I reached out to Craig Cunic, the Product Director of Interface Engine Team at Iatric Systems, to get some advice on how to choose an interfacing engine. Iatric has been solving complex health IT problems for a while so it’s worth following’s Craig’s advice on the Dos and Don’ts for Interface Engine Consideration. Here’s what he said:
It has been suggested that due to the advent of web services, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), and cloud computing, interface engines no longer serve as the proper tool for system integration. Is the interface engine dead? Yes, it is, if the interface engine does not have the necessary feature-set to support the growing number of data standards and if it can’t exchange data with today’s diverse healthcare systems and devices.
Today’s interface engine is an advanced integration engine.
Read more at The Healthcare IT Guy.
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by administrator on May 8, 2012, at 12:17 pm
Meditech has long encouraged the integration of Data Repository as part of the necessary core components of their HIS. However, I think even Meditech itself sometimes underestimates the potential value and productivity benefits that are inherent in a standard SQL database environment. The mere existence of the DR has even spawned the creation of new dedicated vendors and innovative reporting products that try to capitalize on the information contained in the vast library of tables. Dashboards, KPI’s, trending analysis, and data metrics are the new buzz words that are now a staple of decision support.
Read more of Howard Minor’s blog post at MEDITECH Connect.
by administrator on May 8, 2012, at 12:13 pm
We see it in the news everyday. Hundreds of privacy breaches are reported, affecting millions of patients. The cause of the breaches could be for many reasons. It could be due to theft of laptops or other devices (especially mobile) that house patient data; identity theft by someone who was authorized to access patient data but did so inappropriately; or patient data being accessed inappropriately by third parties. Whatever the reason, breaches continue the upward climb, costing hospitals millions.
In the third biannual report commissioned by Kroll Advisory Solutions – titled “2012 HIMSS Analytics Report: Security of Patient Data,” 27% of respondents reported having a breach in the last 12 months (up from 19% in 2012); and of those that reported a breach, 69% experienced more than one breach. Regarding the sources of security breaches, 79% of respondents reported that the breach was by an employee of the organization. To read the whole report go to:
http://www.krollcybersecurity.com/white-papers/himss-2012-report.as…
Even though the HIPAA and HITECH rules have been in place for some time, many hospitals are still not in a position to monitor or reduce the number of breaches. Why is this the case? In order to meet the requirements of HIPAA and HITECH, hospitals need to have procedures in place to show that they can find a breach. This can’t be effective as a manual process; automation needs to be in place to proactively monitor millions of patient data daily. Once implemented, hospitals can investigate and track a breach, report on any unauthorized access to the patients medical records and put practices in place so it doesn’t happen again. An automated solution that can integrate your multiple patient care systems is the easiest and most effective way to streamline these processes to ensure compliance.
With the recent OCR audits that began last November of 2011, it is even more critical to have practices in place to not only prove that you are monitoring access to patient records, but that you have processes in place to do something about it when a breach is identified.
If you would like to learn more about what can be done to automate patient privacy and the processes that go with it, join Iatric Systems for an informational webcast on May 10, 2012 at 2pm ET “How to Implement a Successful Patient Privacy Program.”
by administrator on May 8, 2012, at 12:10 pm
The following blog post is designed to help guide you through the process of establishing public health interfaces for your MEDITECH hospital. Additional resources are provided.
The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) supports the Meaningful Use public health mandates because they are designed to improve the health in our communities and our nation. These mandates help communities prepare for emerging medical threats, future immunization demands, and faster detection of influenza outbreaks, pandemics, and outbreaks associated with bioterrorism.
Meaningful Use mandates also promise to:
- Improve patient-centric preventive care
- Bring attention to the readiness of state public health agencies
- Encourage the development of standardized data elements and messaging implementation guides (data exchange) to support public health efforts
Having the capability to send relevant patient information to public health agencies, and meeting these Meaningful Use objectives, ensures that your hospital contributes to this important effort.
Meaningful Use Requirements
Your hospital must demonstrate its ability to meet five of the ten Meaningful Use Menu Set Objectives. Menu Set Objectives #8, #9 and #10 pertain specifically to data transfer between your MEDITECH hospital and public health agencies.
- Menu Set #8: Submit electronic data to immunization registries or immunization information systems according to applicable law and practice
- Menu Set #9: Submit electronic data on reportable lab results to public health agencies according to applicable law and practice
- Menu Set #10: Submit electronic syndromic surveillance data to public health agencies according to applicable law and practice
Under Stage 1 Meaningful Use rules, eligible hospitals are required to achieve at least one of the public health objectives. Eligible hospitals must choose a public health objective that their jurisdictional Public Health Agency is capable of receiving, as well as the imperative to understand its individual state Public Health requirements.
Meaningful Use Stage 2 proposes that these Public Health menu set objectives will become core objectives, thus requiring eligible hospitals to comply with all three.
Additional Resources
- Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC): ONC is at the forefront of the administration’s health IT efforts. It is a resource to the entire health system to support the adoption of health information technology and the promotion of nationwide health information exchange.
ONC Regulations Frequently Asked Questions
- Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS): The CMS oversees the Medicare and Medicaid EHR Incentive Programs. These programs provide a financial incentive for the “meaningful use” of certified EHR technology to achieve health and efficiency goals.
CMS Frequently Asked Questions
- The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC): The CDC is engaged in EHR policy decisions to improve care for individuals and provide leadership to leverage Meaningful Use for public health. Currently, the CDC is collaborating with and providing input to ONC and CMS for consideration of public health priorities within Meaningful Use now and in the future. CDC incorporates partner feedback through engagement with national public health organizations (e.g., ASTHO, NACCHO, APHL, etc.). In an effort to educate stakeholders, CDC is also working to provide consolidated information to its programs and partners as well as through forums to the general public.
CDC Meaningful Use Website
CDC Meaningful Use Frequently Asked Questions
If you would like to learn more about how to establish public health interfaces for your MEDITECH hospital and how State requirements affect this process, join Iatric Systems for an informational webcast on Wednesday, May 8 at 2pm EDT.
by administrator on May 7, 2012, at 12:40 pm
Mercy Health System activated a systemwide electronic health record system Tuesday.
The multimillion-dollar EHR system, known as CareLink, encompasses the Conshohocken, Pa.-based health system’s four hospitals — Mercy Fitzgerald Hospital in Darby, Pa.; Mercy Philadelphia Hospital in West Philadelphia; Mercy Suburban Hospital in East Norriton, Pa.; and Nazareth Hospital in Northeast Philadelphia — plus 44 physician practices, Mercy Home Health and Mercy LIFE Centers.
“The CareLink initiative is the single largest and complex technology project in Mercy Health System history that has been more than two years in the making,” said David D. Clark, Mercy’s president and CEO.
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