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Why T-Sheets Work
February 06, 2012
Rick Weinhaus, MD, of HIStalk gives an comprehensive, unbiased review of T Sheets® template design. The author disclosed that he has no financial interest in T-System, Inc.
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ED Prepares for the Risks and Rewards of ICD-10
February 01, 2012
T-System CEO Sunny Sanyal discusses ICD-10, the biggest healthcare IT trend for 2012, in this Health Management Technology article. Sunny predicts how the transition to ICD-10 will affect emergency departments and discusses how hospitals can prepare.
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"Smart" Pens Help EMTs Document Medical Care at Pocono Raceway
January 30, 2012
ExecutiveInsight profiles Lehigh Valley Health Network’s use of DigitalShare at Pocono Raceway. The article highlights the benefits of DigitalShare in non-traditional emergency care settings.
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HIMSS12 Preview: The ED Matters for Meaningful Use
January 23, 2012
Health Data Management previews the senior executive session two T-System clients are presenting at HIMSS12, “Emergency Medicine EHR Helps Drive Meaningful Use Readiness.”
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Physicians at Urgent Care Clinic Implement ‘Hybrid’ EHR
January 18, 2012
T Sheets client MD Urgent Care is featured in this PhysBizTech article that discusses the clinic’s unique “hybrid” EHR. MD Urgent Care scans and uploads T Sheets to a secure online documentation management solution that can be accessed via providers’ desktops, iPhones and iPads.
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10 Technologies to Keep Hospitals Competitive
January 17, 2012
T-System Vice President and CMIO Robert Hitchcock, MD, FACEP, discusses cutting-edge technology for hospitals in Becker’s Hospital Review. He stresses the importance of hospitals choosing simple, easy-to-use EHR systems to ensure success with physician recruitment efforts.
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HIT Vendor Executives – Part Two of Two
December 30, 2011
T-System CEO Sunny Sanyal shares the company’s 2012 and 2013 research and development roadmap and priorities in this executive Q&A segment on the HIStalk blog.
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HIT Vendor Executives – Part One of Two
December 21, 2011
T-System CEO Sunny Sanyal reflects on the biggest HIT-related news story of 2011 in the popular HIStalk blog.
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Making the Emergency Department Profitable With IT
December 21, 2011
T-System CFO Steve Armond and VP and CMIO Robert Hitchcock, MD, FACEP outline strategies for centering a hospital’s finance strategy around the emergency department (ED) in this Healthcare Technology Online article. The authors also describe how technology can optimize the ED and its financial contribution to the hospital.
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White Paper: ICD-10 and the ED: Build an Effective Strategy
December 15, 2011
This white paper delineates the potential advantages and disadvantages of ICD-10 and discusses its potential effects on hospitals, particularly the ED. It examines the value of implementing effective information technology solutions to offset the costs and reap the potential benefits of migrating to ICD-10, and it offers suggestions on how to select such a system.
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CMS Meaningful Use Guide for Physicians
December 01, 2011
CMS has developed a Meaningful Use guide to assist physicians to be in compliance for Medicare incentive payment eligibility. This web-based interactive guide is called "An Introduction to the Medicare EHR Incentive Program for Eligible Professionals."
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Top 5 Benefits of Clinical Decision Support in the ED
November 28, 2011
T-System Vice President and CMIO Robert Hitchcock, MD, FACEP offers guest commentary for EHRWatch.com in this article explaining the top five benefits of clinical decision support in the emergency department.
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EHR/EMR Training Tips for Clinicians
November 09, 2011
Janie Schumaker, RN, MBA, CEN, CPHQ, T-System Manager of Client Services, offered her thoughts on EHR training for clinicians in a Healthcare Briefings story.
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Two to Grow On
November 07, 2011
HIT Exchange profiles T SystemEV CPOE in an interview with T-System Vice President and CMIO Robert Hitchcock, MD, FACEP. Hitchcock describes the solution’s intuitive design, customizable order sets and high adoption rate, and he highlights the successes that Colorado-based Montrose Memorial Hospital has achieved with T SystemEV CPOE.
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Block the Docs?
November 03, 2011
This Healthcare IT News article quotes Dr. Robert Hitchcock, T-System vice president and CMIO, regarding proposed Department of Health and Human Services rules that would grant patients the ability to view their lab results online. Hitchcock analyzes the pros and cons of giving patients this type of access to their healthcare information.
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IT Case Study Contest nominee: Great Plains Regional Medical Center, North Platte, Neb.
November 02, 2011
In this IT case study published in Modern Healthcare, CIO Jim Anderson of Great Plains Regional Medical Center in North Platte, Neb., discusses the hospital’s financial and operational performance improvements with emergency department information system T SystemEV.
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Keeping an Eye on Business Associates
November 01, 2011
In this Health Data Management article, T-System Director of Human Resources Christina Anderson and Manager of Contract Administration Tina Clark explain how a proposed rule mandated under the HITECH Act to strengthen provisions of HIPAA privacy, security and enforcement rules could affect business associates.
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Hospital Emergency Departments in Crisis
October 13, 2011
T-System Vice President and Chief Medical Informatics Officer Robert Hitchcock, M.D., FACEP, offers provoking commentary about the state of the nation’s emergency departments in a 33-minute podcast posted on the Health Thought Leadership One-to-One blog. He examines trends affecting efficiency and revenue in the ED and explains how electronic health records are vital for transforming care quality.
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Data Collection a Key Benefit of ICD-10
October 11, 2011
T-System Solution Analyst Mike Rosenfeld weighs the challenges and benefits of ICD-10 in this Becker’s Hospital Review article by Sabrina Rodak. Rosenfeld asserts that ICD-10 will promote better data collection, and he offers suggestions for ways hospitals can prepare for the transition from ICD-9.
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ED Information Systems: How They Help Hospitals Show Meaningful Use
October 05, 2011
In this Journal of Healthcare Information Management (JHIM) Fall article, three CIOs from Baptist Healthcare System in Kentucky and Duncan Regional Healthcare System and Sayre Memorial Hospital in Oklahoma explain their individual strategies using T-System’s emergency department information system, T SystemEV, to show Meaningful Use.
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Questions are the Answer: AHRQ Campaign Promotes Better Communication
October 03, 2011
Janie Schumaker, R.N., T-System Manager of Client Services, is quoted in a Healthcare Briefings article about the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) campaign to promote better patient communication. Schumaker discusses how effective communication can be beneficial to both clinicians and patients.
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Digital Pen Technology Aids Emergency Planning; EHR Adoption Next?
September 28, 2011
Michael Wargo, Executive Director of Medical Operations at Lehigh Valley Health Network discusses how DigitalShare™ is being used to treat drivers and fans at Pocono Raceway and prospects of digital pen technology utilization with EHRs.
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White Paper: Meaningful Use Strategies for Hospitals with Non-Automated EDs
September 12, 2011
An outline of potential strategies for facility attainment of Meaningful Use incentives, while maintaining optimal workflow, productivity and revenue through physician paper template documentation.
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System Should Let Users Hit the Ground Running
September 08, 2011
Janie Schumaker, R.N., T-System Manager of Client Services, is one of eight selected industry experts to respond to Health Management Technology’s question: “What are the best ways to minimize the pains associated with selecting and adopting a clinical information system?”
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The Race for Better Care
August 30, 2011
HIMSS News reports Lehigh Valley Health Network is leveraging T-System's DigitalShare™, powered by Shareable Ink®, to treat drivers and raceway fans at the Aug. 5-7 high-performance motor racing event at Pocono Raceway in Long Pond, Penn.
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New IT System Helps Rural ED Improve Charge Capture, Days to Bill
August 15, 2011
HFMA’s Revenue Cycle Forum profiles 25-bed St. Andrews Hospital’s use of T-System’s T SystemEV to increase charge capture by 30 percent, reduce time to final bill by nine days, and improve patient transfers and ED throughput.
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White Paper: The Business Case for an Emergency Department Information System: T SystemEV
August 15, 2011
Hobson & Company’s research validates the value created by T SystemEV to address four key hospital ED challenges by optimizing revenue capture, reducing the cost of care, increasing operational efficiencies and improving the quality and safety of care.
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Podcast of Interview with Jackie Lucas, VP/CIO, Baptist Healthcare System
July 20, 2011
HealthSystemCIO.com Editor Anthony Guerra interviews Baptist Healthcare System’s Vice President and Chief Information Officer Jackie Lucas. Discussed are the challenges that Baptist and other community hospitals face in adopting CPOE and meeting quality measures, the experiences in maintaining multiple vendor partnerships, and lessons learned from other industries that can benefit provider CIOs.
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Less Paper, Better ER? One Rural Hospital's Bid
July 05, 2011
Roger Neal, VP and CIO of Duncan Regional Hospital in Oklahoma, shares with InformationWeek Healthcare how the hospital's emergency department is using analytics and predictive modeling to improve workflow and manage patient volume through T SystemEV STAT.
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Why Can’t We All Just Get Along?
July 01, 2011
A HIT Exchange article examining standards compliance and interoperability quotes Robert Hitchcock, M.D., CMIO at T-System, explaining how best-of-breed HIT vendors are stepping up to the challenge of interfacing and exchanging data with all information systems.
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Emergency Department IT: Throughput is Key
June 24, 2011
In CMIO Magazine, CIO Jim Anderson of Great Plains Regional Medical Center in North Platte, Neb., describes the hospital’s enhanced ED throughput time and medical record documentation, as well as the EDIS-inpatient system integration to create a complete patient EHR since using T SystemEV beginning in 2006.
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5 Tips for Dealing with Rising ED Volumes
May 31, 2011
Janie Schumaker, R.N., T-System Manager of Client Services, is a guest columnist for EHRWatch.com. She offers suggestions regarding how hospitals can better manage the growing demand for ED services at a time when budgets are tight and adding capacity.
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Can interoperability help connect the dots?
May 04, 2011
HealthcareIT News quotes Robert Hitchcock, M.D., CMIO of T-System, sharing his perspective on HIEs being the catalyst for healthcare organizations’ increased participation in data sharing.
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Meaningful-use criteria could unintentionally hurt EDs
May 01, 2011
Robert Hitchcock, M.D., CMIO of T-System, is one of several selected industry experts giving input to Health Management Technology's "Implementing Meaningful Use Objectives" two-part series.
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White Paper: Total Cost of Ownership
April 05, 2011
Exposing the “Hidden” Costs of an Emergency Department Information System
All EDIS offerings are not created equal. To make the best choice and to determine the total cost of ownership, hospitals should examine three key factors: content development, implementation time and maintenance costs.
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White Paper: Interoperability
December 20, 2010
New technologies bring new relevance to best-of-breed emergency room information systems
Healthcare reform is making intra-organizational interoperability as critical to viability as intra-organizational integration. Thus, interoperable emergency department information systems that can meet both the current needs of the ED and the future requirements of the healthcare enterprise can mean the difference between a hospital becoming more efficient or closing its doors.
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