HIMSS calls for $25B health IT investment from Obama administration

The Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society released a detailed report outlining specific priorities and recommendations for the Obama administration and 111th Congress to harness IT’s power to reform healthcare and stimulate the U.S. economy.

Make Your Voice Heard.......Host an Health IT Discussion for the Obama-Biden Administration

WASHINGTON, DC (December 8, 2008) Per an opportunity created by the Obama-Biden Transition Team, convening between December 15 - 31, Americans hosting these community discussions will help the transition team develop appropriate healthcare policy recommendations. Community discussions on healthcare IT will ensure the Transition Team has input and ideas from your colleagues and industry experts in your region of the country. The Transition Team will provide you with moderator kits to give you everything you need to get the discussion going.

Leveraging a Medical Grade Network to enable a better care

President-elect Barack Obama lays out key parts of Economic Recovery Plan....regarding healthcare...."In addition to connecting our libraries and schools to the internet, to each other through the internet we must also ensure that our hospitals are connected. That is why the economic recovery plan I’m proposing will help modernize our health care system – and that won’t just save jobs, it will save lives. We will make sure that every doctor’s office and hospital in this country is using cutting edge technology and electronic medical records so that we can cut red tape, prevent medical mistakes, and help save billions of dollars each year.”

In a new report, The Joint Commission suggests principles to guide the development of “the hospital of the future.” Developed by a panel of hospital administrators, clinicians and other experts, the report covers a broad range of issues, from building design to technology, staffing and health care economics. “...the continuing investment in hospital construction offers the opportunity to remake the hospital – its design, culture and practices – to better meet the needs of patients and families and the aspirations of those that provide their care,” the report states.

A Tipping Point Year for Healthcare IT

Tom Daschle: Health And Human Services Secretary?

Are you attending the HIMSS Virtual Conference this week?

The 7925 has had its first customer shipping. This is the new Wi-Fi ‘healthcare grade’ phone. Among other features, the 7925 is hermetically sealed to resist contamination from dust, liquids and moist wipes and is IP54 rated for both dust and water protection.

Improvements in technology make telemedicine more efficient in providing care. (Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin’s teledermatology program, where dermatologists use videoconferencing to treat patients 100 miles away - It quotes an article suggesting that 28% of ED visits could be managed by telemedicine instead.)

18 Big Ideas to Fix Healthcare Now.

IT Critical to fighting hospital-acquired infections, reducing costs

Hospital executives report poor patient flow, cite healthcare IT as solution.

If you work in Wisconsin how are you taking advantage of this and that?

Healthcare podcats (near middle of the page)

Register for next Healthcare WebEx Sales Training Session on 10/30 @ 9:00 a.m. CST

If you were unable to attend the healthcare training session at Vanderbilt, we have now made it available throughPartner eLearning Connection. Log on to the site and type in "Vanderbilt 101 for Healthcare Sales"

Feds finally put teeth into HIPAA enforcement. Three years after the federal law's rules on securing health care data took effect, HHS has issued its first 'corrective action plan.' And more may be on the way.

AHA webinar series

IT helps California hospital spot high-risk patients

Creating a FaceBook-like medical record...."That’s when I finally got it: How great would it be if,....I could interact with multiple specialists who have seen my patient – in real time, just like my kids are interacting with far-flung friends on Facebook. And if nurses could leave me a note which I could answer online without having to respond to a page. And if the daily plan for a patient – developed collaboratively – could be shared among all the caregivers, with notes appended when a patient’s clinical ship seemed to be blowing off course." (sound like Cisco's collaboration messaging?)

Companies using webcams for real time patient encounters.

Can you make your Cisco IP phones do this?. Virtual healthcare system makes house calls.

Hospitals have gone high tech.

Cisco changing to support healthcare

Cisco unwraps blueprint for healthcare security

Taking a short family vacation..........

FY09 Healthcare WebEx Training sessions begin September 25 @ 9:00 a.m. CST. We will run these short sales oriented sessions on the last Thursday of every month.

Another reason why you need hospital data security………

Health-Care VARs Win With Electronic Medical Records Solutions

Congress passes physician Medicare payment fix with incentives for eRx. Now that the government has officially created a law with financial incentives, many of these offices will be challenged ensuring they have the appropriate secured wireless network. With limited IT resources, who is in position to help them?

Cisco Community of Interest Network Delivers Patient Records and Healthcare Information in Real Time Across 160 Locations

While the source is definitely "different" he makes some very valid points. It is up to YOU to think about who will ensure the secure network is in place and who will take care of their wireless needs.

Cisco mobility solutions for healthcare

The best medical search engine you are not using

Cisco changing to support healthcare

Sick Around the World

It compares the US Healthcare system against healthcare systems in 5 major democracies around the world. If you're covering a healthcare account, this is worth the time investment. You'll definitely pick-up some new ideas and be able to "up level" your conversations with your hospital customers.

Cisco CCX and Medical Devices

Are your medical records at risk?

Healthcare wireless market to approach $10 billion by 2012.

Cisco has announced that Mayo Clinic, a non profit medical practice group, has deployed its unified wireless network to improve its patient care.

Adena Health System brings critical-care specialists to newborns in rural Ohio with Telemedicine video conferencing on a Cisco integrated network.

an example of a wireless hospital

Health care is in the midst of a “metamorphosis” that is changing it from a “caterpillar into a butterfly,” and technology is an essential part of that process, federal Commissioner of Food and Drugs Andrew von Eschenbach said Thursday.

Arizona Radiology Practice Improves Patient Care and Customer Service

Cisco Community of Interest Network Delivers Patient Records and Healthcare Information in Real Time Across 160 Locations

on Spring Break with the family....

Are you working with your hospitals about temperature monitoring to ensure they maintain Joint Commission standards? Safe temperature ranges for patient test samples, organs, vaccines, drugs, blood bags, food and pharmaceuticals are ensured through an FDA registered, automated wireless monitoring and alert system. AeroScout sells temperature sensing Wi-Fi tags that can be easily placed in hospital refrigerators or freezers. AeroScout's MobileView software sends out alerts on exceeded temperature ranges, displays graphical reports of temperature trends, includes an event dashboard and provide a corrective action logging tool.

Misys Healthcare and Allscripts to merge.

Cisco drives innovation in healthcare with enhanced mobility solutions, industry collaboration.

Sanford Health Reinvents Community Healthcare with Integrated Campuses

Monthly healthcare WebEx session - guest services

Communications technology critical to healthcare improvement

Cisco helps Palomar Pomerado Health open "Hospital of the Future" - in Second Life

Cleveland Clinic collaborates with Google

An interoperable medication record for every American (the potential.....)

Bedside Services

HealthPresence part 2

HealthPresence

Misys partners with Cisco to to apply healthcare information technology to the physician practice market. Centered around Cisco's UC500, watch this VOD to learn about this exciting hosted Electronic Medical Record/Practice Management solution: Misys Myway

How do you make the physician office more efficient?

Briefings Newsletter: Top Ten Publications of 2007

January 2008

As we begin the New Year, health care issues maintain their prominent place on the state and national agenda. The California Senate should soon vote on a reform proposal championed by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and Assembly Speaker Fabian Núñez, and voters will be asked later in the year to approve a plan to pay for it. That ballot initiative campaign promises to be expensive and hotly contested. If approved, it likely faces a court challenge. This past year, the California HealthCare Foundation published research on a number of issues that health care policymakers will face in the year to come, including the uninsured and health care reform. Here we've compiled the ten publications of 2007 that drew the most interest.
Top Ten Publications
1. Medi-Cal Facts and Figures: A Look at California's Medicaid Program 2. Perspectives on the Future of Personal Health Records 3. Snapshot: Health Care Costs 101, 2007 Edition 4. California Health Care Market Report 2006 5. The Science of Spread: How Innovations in Care Become the Norm 6. Guide to Health Programs (English and Spanish) 7. Personal Health Records: Employers Proceed with Caution 8. The Rise of the Hospitalist in California 9. Privacy, Security, and the Regional Health Information Organization10. Snapshot: Financial Health of California Hospitals
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