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- St. Vincent plans all-digital, all-green IT infrastructure
As part of an extensive financial and operational restructuring, St. Vincent Catholic Medical Centers of New York has revamped its IT infrastructure and digitized 85% of its clinical processes. St. Vincent adopted a virtualization solution from VMware and plans to replace its PCs with VMware Virtual Desktop Infrastructure in its efforts to make the hospital digital and green. Healthcare IT News
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- Physician champion crucial in IT implementation projects
Experts say that a physician champion is crucial to any IT implementation project that requires a point person who is knowledgeable and willing to spend extra time on helping to train other physicians. Successful physician champions understand how to communicate problems and needs between administrators, vendors and physicians. American Medical News (subscription required)
(12/8)
- Technology can adversely impact patient care
 "It seems that in this pell-mell rush to incorporate computer technology into patient care, something has been lost. It is the human touch," writes plastic surgeon Richard T. Bosshardt. He says documentation is critical in health care but must be carefully integrated so as not to minimize patient care. Orlando Sentinel (Fla.)
(11/30)
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- New index tracks health industry's move to e-records
A revenue-cycle-management company in Nashville, Tenn., has created the U.S. Healthcare Efficiency Index to track the health care industry's switch from paper to electronic records. Emdeon says it hopes to raise awareness of potential cost savings that come with using e-records, noting $11 billion could be saved annually just by using direct deposit for medical payments. The Tennessean (Nashville)
(12/2)
- Implementation guide released for radiology
Health Level Seven and The Health Story Project have worked together to create a new implementation guide for sharing information between radiologists and electronic health record systems. The new interoperability standard will allow radiologists to share results through a standard channel that will provide narrative radiology reports to computerized clinical information systems. Healthcare IT News
(12/3)
- Few consumers use online health care quality rankings
People are still turning to friends and family for advice on health care providers over Internet services that offer quality rankings about insurance plans, doctors and hospitals. Many hospital officials remain encouraged, however. "The quality rating sets up competition between doctors and hospitals. Everyone benefits from that. It improves the quality of care to our communities. We've got a long way to go. But a lot of what we see is encouraging," said Steven Barron, president of St. Bernardine Medical Center. The Press-Enterprise (Riverside, Calif.) (free registration)
(11/30)
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