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Healthcare IT stimulus funding: Show me where to put the money!
Colleagues,
As reported in Health IT News...Providers and other healthcare IT stakeholders should focus on five areas that will likely be targeted by healthcare IT funding, said John Tempesco, vice president of Client Services and Marketing for Informatics Corp. of America, or ICA. Ready-to-go healthcare IT projects that...
- prevent medical mistakes,
- provide better patient care,
- promote preventative care,
- evaluate the most cost-effective healthcare treatments and
- drive cost-savings efficiencies
Congress and CMS, have been focusing clinical results and how physicians use information to reduce errors, make better-informed clinical decisions and deliver workflow efficiencies. With increased physician involvement in the selection and deployment of solutions, hospitals should strengthen the relationship between their clinical and IT staffs. That will require clinical application specialists and medical technicians to help train staff. What's missing in the healthcare industry is the actual teaching and translation of how providers use healthcare IT solutions in their daily workflow to make incremental changes. "There are not enough clinical application specialists in most hospitals," he said.
Tempesco expects stimulus funding to flow to community projects. ICA is already seeing a lot of Requests for Proposals from states, including Kentucky, Mississippi and Louisiana, for statewide health information exchanges, or HIEs. "Any time you talk about HIEs, it requires vendors producing data inputs and outputs, and hospital staff doing integration, implementation and training,". Tempesco has a word of caution for those giddy with the forthcoming healthcare IT funding. "My biggest fear is that we dump money into projects that don't have sustainability plans," ...
Read on at:http://www.healthcareitnews.com/news/healthcare-it-stimulus-funding...
ENJOY!
CC
As reported in Health IT News...Providers and other healthcare IT stakeholders should focus on five areas that will likely be targeted by healthcare IT funding, said John Tempesco, vice president of Client Services and Marketing for Informatics Corp. of America, or ICA. Ready-to-go healthcare IT projects that...
- prevent medical mistakes,
- provide better patient care,
- promote preventative care,
- evaluate the most cost-effective healthcare treatments and
- drive cost-savings efficiencies
Congress and CMS, have been focusing clinical results and how physicians use information to reduce errors, make better-informed clinical decisions and deliver workflow efficiencies. With increased physician involvement in the selection and deployment of solutions, hospitals should strengthen the relationship between their clinical and IT staffs. That will require clinical application specialists and medical technicians to help train staff. What's missing in the healthcare industry is the actual teaching and translation of how providers use healthcare IT solutions in their daily workflow to make incremental changes. "There are not enough clinical application specialists in most hospitals," he said.
Tempesco expects stimulus funding to flow to community projects. ICA is already seeing a lot of Requests for Proposals from states, including Kentucky, Mississippi and Louisiana, for statewide health information exchanges, or HIEs. "Any time you talk about HIEs, it requires vendors producing data inputs and outputs, and hospital staff doing integration, implementation and training,". Tempesco has a word of caution for those giddy with the forthcoming healthcare IT funding. "My biggest fear is that we dump money into projects that don't have sustainability plans," ...
Read on at:http://www.healthcareitnews.com/news/healthcare-it-stimulus-funding...
ENJOY!
CC
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