Information on Provider Taxonomy Codes for Payers
Many hospitals, physicians and clinics are having difficulty getting claims paid because of problems related to Provider Taxonomy codes in payers’ crosswalks. The folks from HIT Transitions have posted a lot of information on their health IT blog, and they’ve just set up a link to all those posts.

Overview of Trends in Health Information Exchange and Implications for Public Policy
This month's webinar will provide an overview of what's happening related to health information exchange. The most recent findings from surveys and research on health information exchange will be shared, including: health information exchange research funded by Harvard's Program for Health Systems Improvement and published in the December 2007 edition of Health Affairs, findings from the State-level HIE Consensus Project and Final Report which focused on assessing the current landscape of state-level health information exchange initiatives, and the preliminary results from the eHI 2008 Survey of Health Information Exchange at the National, State and Local Levels.

CCHIT Certified Inpatient EHR 2007
The following products have achieved CCHIT Certified status by testing against the 2007 Inpatient EHR criteria.

Top five biggest healthcare IT blunders
Despite their best efforts, many hospitals adopting healthcare IT have found some unexpected curves in the road over the last few years. Here are some of the biggest blunders...

Implementation of a novel on-ward computer-assisted surveillance system for device-associated infections in an intensive care unit
A computer-based surveillance system for detecting nosocomial infections (NI) with direct data input from attending on-ward physicians was implemented. Detected infection rates ranged within the German national reference data. Personnel costs for on-ward physicians and infection control personnel were 1.01 Euro per device day in the routine phase. Time expenditure of less than 3 min per device day, rendered in about equal parts by physicians and infection control personnel, was lower than in studies relying on on-ward assessment by infection control personnel.

Novel, Web-based, information-exploration approach for improving operating room logistics and system processes
A Web-based, graphical dashboard is described in this study, which can be used to interpret clinical operational data, allow managers to see trends in data, and help identify inefficiencies that were not apparent with more traditional, paper-based approaches. The dashboard provides a visual decision support tool that assists managers in pinpointing areas for continuous quality improvement. Strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats associated with implementing such a program in the perioperative environment are summarized.