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Visions: Preizler offers insurer's perspective on healthcare IT

...up by the vendor, which is ePocrates, and then the doctor is really going out to that vendor's website to get that information. But every time they sync, they have the most current [information]. And it has comparative pricing, so they know that Brand A versus Brand B or C, they know the generics, and they ...

Siemens health services president calls IT benefits unassailable

...tually start with the fact that I believe that the doctor usage is quickly becoming a non-issue. As newer physicians roll into the ranks, and you can't say the quote, unquote more seasoned physicians don't use it, but typically when you think about it, the residents coming up today are of the Google era, ...

CIO Leadership Series: Deb Rislow, Gundersen Lutheran

...icians had a pager and that was about it. Today, a doctor might have a pager, a cell phone, a personal digit...led from a central storage room and brought to the doctor the day before. In the real world, the chart could be with a physician who saw the patient two days ...

CIO Leadership Series: Mike Sauk, UW Hospital and Clinics

... the right people, the right clinic, and the right doctor quickly, that's one of the major things I'd like to do here. But not the only thing. Leading IT Prior to joining UWHC, Sauk's prior CIO stints have been 10 years, eight years, seven years at Detroit Medical Center , City of Hope , and UCI, res...

CIO Leadership Series: Peter Strombom, Meriter Hospital

...shed installing its existing phone system when the doctor cut Strombom to the quick. Why are your physicians not consulted in the selection of a telephone system? he asked. The question shaped a key process improvement for many information technology installations to come. From then on, hospital technical ...

Will BidRx start a drug price war?

...t, Wis. who pays for his own insurance, wishes his doctor had done more due diligence. LaPrest was using an ...a month. When he asked his physician about it, the doctor acknowledged the low-cost drug had the same basic formula. Why didn't he tell LaPrest about it befo...

Medical College researcher working to make genetic-based medicine a reality

.... Project timetable Stephens, who earned his doctor of medicine degree from the University of South Dakota , believes five years is a realistic time frame for the project. It will focus on two genes, MRP4 and MRP5, which serve as code for transporters in white blood cells. In the beginning, the res...

Cash-rich TomoTherapy has no plans for IPO

...machine and the thankfulness he felt towards every doctor and technician that helped save his life. "It's unbelievable what's happening in technology today," Mueller said. "I personally want to thank all of you." From theory to commercialization TomoTherapy was born in the summer of 1988 when Mackie an...

RFID system aids hospital in tracking assets

Brookfield , Wis. - The biggest fear for a doctor may be losing a patient, but a significant annoyance is missing equipment. In the hectic environment of a hospital, there are hundreds of supplies to keep track of and no way to watch every one - a process that often leaves doctors rooting around in ...

Employees debate ethics of giving two weeks' notice

...stress. Still, job-related stress will add to your doctor bills significantly. A doctor treating patients for acid reflux and stomach problems said the source for 80 percent of these probl...

IT critical in pandemic response, but many are not paying attention

...te epidemics and pandemics," said Barry Chaiken, a doctor and associate chief medical officer of BearingPoint. "The tool we have today to make our public health efforts even better is IT - and IT meaning, specifically, distribution channels for information." Using online resources such as the federal gove...

RFID can be a matter of life and death in the medical world

...e out of the technology. In Columbia St. Mary's, a doctor who got fed up with other doctors walking away with her stethoscopes decided to build on the existing security systems. Attaching tags used in monitoring infants to her equipment, she was able to track the whereabouts of her stethoscopes - thanks to ...

Video game technology could improve physician-patient interactions

...he patient describing symptoms to a doctor, to the doctor conducting tests and communicating a diagnosis and then feedback between the two as treatment proceeds. "All of these are forms of realms of activity where, depending on the kinds of practices a physician uses and patients use in response, their com...

UW's Waisman Center seeing strong demand for biomanufacturing facility time

...ork also is invaluable, said Christopher Murphy, a doctor of veterinary science who has been involved in a Waisman project with fellow UW-Madison researcher and UW-Madison veterinary surgeon Jonathan McAnulty. "Those guys were fabulous," said Murphy, of the UW Schools of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine. ...

Medicare to modify EHR software for private physicians

...re feasible, it doesn't fully dismiss the risks "a doctor in a small office" would take in installing it....

Medical simulations identify potential problems before they can pose a real threat

...ther in the scenarios, but roles can be changed; a doctor can play the role of public relations, or a lab te...All too often, depending on your role, if you're a doctor you work only with doctors or if you're a nurse you work with nurses," Chapman explained. "And the w...

Liability issues not seen as roadblock to healthcare technology advancements

...ng to do,' and it's not the right thing to do, the doctor needs the knowledge to know the recommended course of action is wrong," he added. Stettner sees an expanding use of clinical technologies because of the reduced risk of error they can offer. "In the long run, for the types of things we ask medical ...

Experts spar over incentives for health-care providers

...est of the physician's practice. Barry Chaiken, a doctor and associate chief medical officer of BearingPoint , said that incentives always have some kind of unintended effects. "What are the risks," he asked, "if we implement pay-for-performance, that the incentives produce poor outcomes?" A simple examp...

Preview: Electronic health records, tech choices explored at Digital Healthcare Conference

...ns make decisions in the dark," said Seth Foldy, a doctor and conference speaker from Health.e.volution and ...e are real-time warnings," said Raymond Zastrow, a doctor and a heathcare decision support instructor at the Milwaukee School of Engineering . "The alerts ar...

Physician mindset slows adoption of electronic health records

... lucrative in every-day practice. Who pays? "The doctor is paid not based on quality but rather quantity. ...ing for designers to remember is how it feels as a doctor using the technology at the bedside. The program that sacrifices some "left-brain" design for "right...

Wisconsin Health Information Exchange shares burden of electronic medical records

...ience in medical informatics program. "If you're a doctor and I send you a patient's information in a PDF file, it's about the same as faxing it. The machine can't do anything with that information." "If I send you structured data, where each data element is machine-recognizable, the machine can perform so...

Rodney Dykehouse of Froedtert and Medical College of Wisconsin warns against tech for its own sake

...use transcripts typed documentation of individual doctor visits involve an elaborate "loop" of events, Dyk...e the chart with a patient's history, physical and doctor information. Then they recite the visit into a recorder before someone types it and returns it to th...

Michael Rosencrance deals with medical overload through human-centric IT

...cumentation, illustrating the rapid rise in what a doctor needs to track. "It's gotten to the point where n...f medical errors, and congestion, occurring when a doctor misses the chance to add an important new method to a patient's treatment, are two main information ...

International eyes drawn to Madison's games research

...nventional methods such as books: Dan : Does the doctor that performed very well on a video game using a controller all the sudden have shaky hands and can't handle the unexpected when surgery occurs because it didn't happen that way in the game? J-F : To be honest, I would rather be operated by a surge...

The IT drug Just say no?

... whatever ails us. We dont have to be a chemist or doctor to pop a pill, and we dont have to be a technologist to take that technology cure. Were all pretty well trained in the pharmaceutical way. We give some expert as little time as possible and expect a great deal of insight and intuition into what ails ...

GE Healthcare announces new, high-tech 'stethoscope'

...portable ultrasound system makes it easier for the doctor to go to the patient to perform an ultrasound scan, rather than the reverse. In intensive care and cardiac exam rooms this is a marked advantage." The system will be commercially available in fall 2004. GE Healthcare develops medical imaging and in...

Thompson announces 'Decade of Health Information Technology'

...tion will provide a quantum leap in patient power, doctor power and effective health care. We can't wait any longer." The creation of electronic health records and a network to connect them is at the heart of the plan. Several efforts, including the appointment of a special Leadership Panel, are underway. ...

Human factors and IT: Designing for patient safety

...s, explaining the technology allows for a patient, doctor and computer to all be in the same room during treatment, creating immediate data updates. The information is then stored in the EMR and is accessible at any other session with the patient, but kept separate from other records to limit confusion. Th...

The doctor is in: Thompson prescribes better health information technology

...t standards and create networks that would allow a doctor or hospital to immediately gather relevant information test results, medical history and medical images -- by computer. Local health centers would store and retrieve information, and security would be tight. But an Internet-based infrastructure woul...

Symposium examines the effect of race on genetics and disease

...ust a drug marketed to her by race. If I go to my doctor and he says, Heres a drug especially for you as an African American, Im going to say, Thanks, but Ill take what you give to the white folks, she said....

Are You Your Business Card?

...nstall a second line. Pagers. Unless you are a doctor or a bicycle messenger, I dont need to have your pager number. Leave it off the card. Its easier to call your cell phone. Finally, Waupsh reminds us that a business card is not an art installation: It is a means to getting a call back, which is a m...

Florida: Investing Heavily in Biotechnology - Governor uses state funds to attract large biotech companies

... companies can be very profitable. Frost is also a doctor who originally came to Miami to work for the universitys school of medicine and later left and started IVAX. For those of you with good memories or name recognition, Donna Shalala was the former secretary of health and welfare under the Clinton adm...

Childrens Medical Hospital of Wisconsin Goes Digital

...bleeding or an apparent emergency. Next you meet a doctor who knows nothing about your child and you have to...forms can be avoided. Warnings will be issued if a doctor prescribes a drug that might interact with other medications the patient is taking or to which the p...