Improved approaches to clinical data have allowed the trust to monitor mortality rates and manage treatments more effectively Business intelligence tools can provide useful clinical and performance data, but this has not always translated into information that can be acted on to improve services. Typically...
A Merseyside acute trust has improved its services for patients through digitising paper and manual processes Aintree University hospital trust has reduced C. difficile infections by 69% and improved patient satisfaction by 20% in just 18 months, after modernising its approach to patient record keeping...
Primary care trusts have been developing use of geographic information systems, but their dissolution risks a loss of expertise Geographical information has been key to the healthcare sector since Dr John Snow mapped cholera outbreaks in London in the 1850s. But with expertise in geographical information...
Here’s a quote from the press release that says it all and the big decisions these days for CIOs are how many of these do we need and how many can we afford? There are tons of audit services out there like this and the software does what it says it will do, but expect soon a new layer that will...
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Here we go once more, it’s all about those algorithms and if the payer side of this was not so profitable, hospitals wouldn’t be messing around here, it’s all in those transaction fees that go cha ching, cha ching. MediHealth is not a large company and I read where they have 12 employees, but if...
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I think as well as with the government we have seen a “madness” when it comes to Health IT, it sure feels that way as I post all of that type of information on this blog and I would venture to say that if I am having issues keeping up on general news here that the overall study and implementation is...
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This is a continuation of the first announcement where the White House put a “hold” on certain projects. I am guessing too that much of this will revolve around the financial side of IT. Transactional analysis in healthcare certainly needs an overhaul as we all pay big time. Insurers...
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What is really worth reading here are the comments under the area of “ culture shock” with Microsoft talking about how long a project stays in the works, no more than2 to 2/2 years and this was a shock to government workers as they have had long slow drag outs for implementing new applications and software...
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A couple weeks ago the White House was going to begin looking at “risky” IT projects and the VA was first up on the list and here’s the results. I have often said both in the government and especially in the private sector of business that we have a “glut” of analysis and financial software and...
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We keep seeing more business intelligence software working it’s way into healthcare. Anodyne is a software as a service web application that will be free standing on it’s own and will also be integrated with Athena software for the numbers and data algorithmic analysis processes. Anodyne...
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