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Social Responsibility's Strategic Benefits
December 15, 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM US/Eastern (GMT-5)
Join Ed Granger-Happ, CIO of Save the Children, for a discussion of how creating an organization that is socially responsible improves staffing, retention, leadership development and overall corporate health.
Working With and Communicating to Your Board of Directors
January 13, 2009, 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM US/Eastern (GMT-5)
CIO panelists who will share tips and experiences working with their boards: Twila Day of SYSCO; Jeff O'Hare, West Corp.; Marc West, formerly with H&R Block.
IT's Role in Growing Mid-Market Companies
January 14, 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM ET (GMT-5)
Mid-market Council members will share their companies' stories and challenges in driving or coping with growth. Panelists represent Veterinary Pet Insurance, Medicis Pharmaceutical, and Intrax Cultural Exchange.
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Despite Policies, Implementation of Electronic Medical Records Remains Slow
While the vast majority of healthcare CIOs are feeling the pressure to move towards keeping electronic patient records, only 18% have managed to get the technology implemented with most doctors still preferring to use paper templates.
April 04, 2008 — CIO — A recent survey of the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) members, including 126 CIOs, shows that while over 82% of participants indicated that their organization is either strongly encouraging and/or mandating for electronic physician documentation for inpatient care; only 18% had implemented the technology. And of those implementing the technology, 55% reported that less than half of their organization's inpatient, physician documentation is being completed electronically.
The preferred documentation process used by 42% of respondents was a set of structured inputs using forms or templates. Structured tech and transcribed dictation (29%) and mainly free text entered by the physician (17%) comprised the other cited processes used, along with the 12 percent that selected "other methods" including exploring templates with voice recognition, structured input using forms with dictation and mix of free text with structured text.
The primary tools for physician documentation activities were fixed workstations with laptops and computers on wheels. Exactly half of the respondents use voice recognition software and only eight percent used handwriting recognition software.
In order to increase the implementation rate, some physicians gave advice, along with answering the survey, on how to engage more users. Some of their suggestions were keeping the physicians involved in the development of the tools, and to refrain from immediately requiring implementation. Other concerns were about needing high standards of products and to allow physicians to have ample training time.
See CHIMES' website for more information.
Less than 25%: 33%
75-99%: 29%
25-50%: 21%
50-75%: 8%
100%: 8%
It is strongly encouraged 42%
It is mandated 38%
It is voluntary/optional 21%
Mainly structured input using forms/templates 42%
Structured text and transcribed dictation 29%
Mainly free text entered directly by the physician 17%
Other 12%
Other includes: exploring templates with voice recognition, structured input using forms with dictation, mix of free text with structured text.
IT Service Management: Metrics That Matter
Configuration Assessment: Choosing the Right Solution
Riverbed Raises the Ante Again in WDS with RiOS 5.0
5 Steps to Successful IT Consolidation
Bringing Web 2.0 to the Enterprise: Leveraging Social Computing Technologies for ERP Applications
A CISO's Guide to Application Security
17 Ways to Reduce Cost in IT
Remote Infrastructure Management - What Your Peers are Thinking
Google Search Appliance - New Features
Complexity is Good
Raising the Bar on Business Service Delivery: Best Practices in Application Performance
Paving the Way for Trusted Collaboration
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