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4	It’s a Compelling Time! First time a President has addressed the need for improving the quality of healthcare through the effective utilization of information management systems
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7	Healthcare: U.S. IT Spending The U.S. healthcare IT market is forecast to grow at a compound annual growth rate of 7.0 percent from $34.1 billion in 2001 to $47.9 billion in 2006.
8	Factors affecting the Industry THE NEED FOR: Interoperability Integration Migration Incremental Deployment
9	IOM Report Patient Safety: Achieving a new standard of care IOM, November 2003 “ To reduce the number of medical errors, the nation’s healthcare system must harness available technologies and build an infrastructure for national health information” A seamless national network requires EHR Secure platforms to exchange information between providers – and patients (CCR) Data standards that would make health information understandable H/C organizations to adopt IT systems capable of sharing information.
10	What is…. Patient Safety – absence of the potential for, or the occurrence of, healthcare associated injury to patients Medical Errors – mistakes made in the process of care that do, or have the potential to, result in harm to patients Adverse Event – an unwanted, unintended, and unanticipated outcome that occurs in association with healthcare Preventable Injury – harm that could have been avoided through reasonable planning or proper execution of an action
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21	Integrated with all major IT systems
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23	Who benefits? Patient registration and admissions Health Information Management Department Patient Financial Services Quality & Outcomes Managers Laboratory Professionals and Their Clients Physicians & Care Givers Hospital Management
24	Benefits for the Physician Access to charts any time anywhere Provides a single log-on for critical clinical information Reduces chart completion time dramatically (24/7 access) Provides longitudinal view of patient records Provides secure, encrypted digital signature Provides chart messaging to peers and hospital staff Access to laboratory results Offers lab graphing for discrete data
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27	EHR users say…2002
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33	Comparative Reliability Between Industries
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