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RxWise tries to reduce medication errors

Check out RxWise. It’s supposed to analyze your medical history and help prevent interactions between prescription, over-the-counter and herbal medications, including drug allergies. You manage all your meds online (yourself) and then your pharmacist and docs can be given access so that it helps reduce prescription errors. There is also an option to get a USB thumb-drive type device. Here’s what they say about that: If you sign up for the Flash Drive version, we’ll send you a thumb-sized USB Flash containing all of sophisticated, yet easy-to-use risk-assessment software.

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How about a Splunk for healthcare data?

I blogged about Splunk earlier today. Splunk automatically organizes various types of IT data (logs, configuration files, message queues, JMX, SNMP and database transactions) into events. It then classifies these events and discovers relationships between events of different kinds. Events are indexed by time, terms and relationships. It then tosses on a search engine so you can look for patterns in realtime or much later. Now, healthcare IT builds on top of regular IT so Splunk is a fascinating product for HCIT purposes and you should look at putting it to use as is.

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CHCS II is dead; long live AHLTA!

What’s in a name? Quite alot, apparently. Some excerpts: From now on, the Composite Health Care System II (CHCS II) is to be called AHLTA. DOD officials said AHLTA stands for Armed Forces Health Longitudinal Technology Application, however, the system should simply be known by the acronym. Winkenwerder said he did not like the CHCS II name because it suggested that the system was not No. 1. AHLTA, which will hold the health records of 9.

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Indoor Positioning for Healthcare from Radianse

Indoor Positioning Solutions (IPS) is analogous to GPS in an indoor space. The folks at Radianse combine active-RFID and location information to enable systems, applications, devices and clinical spaces to automatically initiate actions based on circumstances or events at a point in time. Here are some of the things they claim can be done with their system: Real-time asset location – right equipment in the right place at the right time Improved preventive maintenance/recall management Reduce time searching for equipment Improved cost capture Information on utilization rates Rental and lease reduction programs They say they can also help keep track of people to:

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Using dictation, podcasts, and Transcribr podcast transcriptions for clincal records

Most of the medical community is probably not terribly interested in podcasts yet but I suspect that digital recordings that many physicians make for medical records can be turned into transcriptions and easily inserted into medical records using upcoming services like Enablr’s Transcribr. Now, they’re not super-cheap, but the idea is great (especially for $1 a minute which is cheaper than many full-service bureaus). As we already know, transcriptions in the medical/clinical world are some of the largest portions of healthcare budgets so anything that can help reduce that cost and burden will be more meaningful than new software.

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Use RSS and SSE for healthcare data synchronization in masterless environments?

RSS is a means to syndicate content unidirectionally — for example, when I create a new article here and you subscribe to my feed you will get news about my new publication in your feedreader. Microsoft’s Ray Ozzie (inventor of Lotus Notes and Groove) announced that Microsoft has extended the standard with SSE, which is a “specification that extends RSS from unidirectional to bidirectional information flows.â€? Some elaboration on the technology comes from Ray:

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Real-World RHIO

A friend of mine recently sent a link to an interesting article on RHIOs. From the Journal of AHIMA, Real-World RHIO: A Regional Health Information Organization Blazes a Trail in Upstate New York. Their description: By distributing costs and benefits among providers and payers, a regional physician association is creating a data exchange network with an ambitious goal: interoperable EHR systems in every physician’s office. You may also be interested in these sepcial IDC reports on RHIOs and RHIA guides:

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How to dip your feet into offshore custom development of medical/clinical software

If you’ve been intrigued with the offshore outsourcing movement in the software development industry (such as R&D and operations/maintenance going to Ireland, India, and China) then you’re not alone. With everyone in healthcare IT looking to cut back on costs, it’s only natural that CEOs, CFOs, and CIOs would start to entertain offshore outsourcing options. But, where do you start? Who can you trust? I’ve been using an auction-style service known as RentACoder.

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Visual depiction of how far we’ve come with medical/clinical records management

We’ve made great strides in hospital buildings, patient rooms, surgery centers, and diagnostic tools. Doctors from the 1930’s may not recognize many of the tools and facilities we use today. Now, how far have we come along in medical and clinical records management? We have much cooler looking file folders and storage cabinets! I don’t think any doctors from the 1930’s would have any problem using the new folders, though. 🙂

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ConceptDraw software for medical diagrams, healthcare plans

Visio is a great tool for general diagramming but when it comes to medical and healthcare-specific diagrams a better tool is ConceptDraw HealthCare Management Suite. The stuff it’s good for includes (this comes from their website): Medical diagrams and charts Medical illustrations and graphics Teaching and education materials Medical training diagrams and drawings Anatomical drawings for medical notes Visualizing complex medical issues Flowcharts, orgcharts Healthcare plans Medical project plans To-do lists for stuff Process flow charts for presentations Numerous reports, calendars and timelines Cause-and-effect diagrams Floor plan of your hospital If you know of other software that does similar things in a better way, let me know.

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