Characterizing the Health Information Technology Workforce: Analysis from the HIMSS Analytics™ Database
The data in this report focus on IT professionals in health care settings. We extracted data from the HIMSS Analytics™
Database and extrapolated our findings to the United States (US) as a whole. We found the following results:
There are approximately 108,390 IT professionals in health care the US.
The amount of IT staff hired varies by level of EMR adoption, with the rate of IT FTE per bed started at a level of 0.082
FTE per bed at
the lowest level of the EMR Adoption Model (Stage 0) and increasing to 0.210 FTE bed at higher levels (Stage 4).
To move the entire country to higher levels of adoption (Stage 4) will require an additional 40,784 IT professionals.
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SlidesOnline.org A resource for Powerpoint Slide Presentations
Slidesonline is a web resource designed to facilitate educational process of medical professionals. As you know slide presentations
has become one of the key ways of facilitating education and a way of communicating the new scientific developments. Academic
faculties and
clinicians in practice from worldwide have contributed to the web portal. We would like to invite you to share and enhance
the sharing and
collaborative development of this educational resource.
Leapfrog CPOE Evaluation Tool
The CPOE Evaluation Tool is a remote test for use by hospitals to assess their compliance with The Leapfrog Group's CPOE patient
safety standard. Leapfrog's CPOE standard requires that hospitals:
assure that prescribers enter hospital medication orders via a computer system that includes decision support software to
reduce
prescribing errors; and,
demonstrate, via a test, that its inpatient CPOE system can alert physicians to at least 50% of common serious prescribing
errors.
Denis Protti, founder of the University of Victoria’s School of Health Information is honored
To recognize Protti’s commitment to improving health information systems and the quality and cost-effectiveness of patient
care the health care systems management company
Courtyard Group is committing $50,000 annually to an endowment fund in Protti’s
name.
AHRQ Health Care Innovations Exchange
The Health Care Innovations Exchange is an AHRQ program designed to support health care professionals in sharing and adopting
innovations that improve the delivery of care to patients. Explore this site to find innovative strategies and quality-related
tools, learn
how to improve your organization's ability to innovate and adopt new ideas, and interact with innovators and adopters.
Web guru targets malaria with social network site
Hadfield came up with the idea for
www.MalariaEngage.org after a trip to Zambia last summer that gave him a close-up look at the
mosquito-born disease. The site encourages people to donate $10 or more to help support seven different research projects
in Tanzania, such
as developing plants like lemongrass to repel mosquitoes.
How Do You Amend Your Terms of Use? Hint: Don't Hide the Ball
The case, *Douglas v. U.S. District Court*, 495 F.3d 1062 (9th Cir. 2007), involved a change to terms of use for an AOL subsidiary
providing long-distance telephone services. The subsidiary was acquired by Talk America, which changed the existing terms
of use to add a
number of new clauses, including a new arbitration provision and a waiver of the right to class actions. The plaintiff, a
California
resident, filed a class action on a number of claims arising from the change in terms. The defendant moved to compel arbitration
based on the
new arbitration provision. The District Court granted arbitration and the plaintiff appealed. On appeal the 9th Circuit held
the arbitration
clause was not enforceable.
Best Practices for Laptop Management and Data Breach Prevention
In 2006, Allina lost a laptop containing sensitive data, and could not prove that the data on that laptop was encrypted. At
that
time, Allina could only locate approximately 65% of its laptop population. To address its laptop management challenges, Allina
implemented
Computrace®, an IT asset management, remote data delete and theft recovery solution. By 2007, the solution was deployed on
all of the
hospital network’s laptops and tablets. Since implementing Computrace, Allina Hospitals & Clinics has recovered 75% of stolen
laptops, including a laptop that was tracked to Vietnam and back.
Detection and prevention of prescriptions with excessive doses in electronic prescribing systems
Our study revealed a remarkable number of prescriptions with doses exceeding approved limits (2.5 - 6.1%). Their prevention
appears
feasible but the choice of an appropriate database for MRTDs is essential, and differences between available information sources
are
large.
A Randomized Trial of the Effectiveness of On-Demand vs. Computer-Triggered Drug Decision-Support in Primary Care
Customization of computer-triggered alert systems is more useful in detecting and resolving prescribing problems than on-demand
review but neither approach was effective in reducing prescribing problems. New strategies are needed to maximize the use
of drug
decision-support systems to reduce drug-related morbidity.
Diagnosing Alzheimer's disease--non-clinicians and computerised algorithms together are as accurate as the best clinical practice
A combination of non-clinical researchers, a structured interview and a computerised algorithm is as effective at identifying
AD as
highly trained and skilled clinicians.
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