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1. HealthCare Information Technology
David Haselwood, MBA, MPH, serves as the Head of Business and Corporate
Development at Gradalis, Inc. Mr. Haselwood is the Senior Associate of Burrill &
Company and Business Development Executive at Physician's Online, LLC.
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2. Overview
• What is Health IT?
• How Does Health IT impact
healthcare?
• What is the Evidence-base for HIT?
• What is the Promise of HIT?
• Where do we stand on HIT
Adoption?
• What is the Potential Value of HIT?
• How is Health IT Policy Derived
Today?
• What are Policy Options to
Stimulate HIT?
• Possible focus areas to move the
ball
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3. What is Health IT?
• Hospital – many systems
– Computer-based Provider Order Entry (CPOE)
– Electronic Medication Administration Record (eMAR)
– Clinical Data Repositories
– Ancillary Systems (Lab-chemistry, Lab-micro, Blood Bank, Radiology,
Pharmacy, Pathology, etc.
– Devices: Smart Pumps, Ventilators, EKG, ABGs…
– Financial: Revenue-cycle Management
• Clinic
– Electronic Health Records (Electronic Medical Records)
– Practice Management System
• Patient
– Personal Health Records
• Payors – also may have PHRs
• Free-standing (community): any of the above
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4. How Does Health IT impact healthcare?
• Information management and processing
– Making the bill
– Processing specimens (ancillary departments)
• Information access
– Hospital information systems, EMRs
• Data analysis -- financial
• Data analysis – clinical operations/research
• Clinical Decision Support
• Information exchange
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5. How Does HIT Improve Healthcare
• Clinical Processes
– Streamline, structure order process
– Ensure completeness, correctness
– Supply patient data
– Charge display
– Redundant test reminders
– Structured ordering with counter-detailing
– Consequent or corollary orders
• Other EMR Process Benefits
– Reduced transcription costs
– Reduced chart pulls
– Improved clinical messaging and workflow
– Improved charge capture and accounts
receivable
– Improved referral coordination
– Improved patient communication and
service
Medication Utilization
Perform drug interaction
checks
Check for duplicate
medications
Brand to generic
substitutions
Calculate and adjust doses
based upon age, weight,
renal function
Alternative cost-effective
therapies
Formulary compliance
Indication-based
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6. How does healthcare information exchange impact
the bottom line?
• Largely, TBD…
• Expected effects
– Reduced healthcare
information
management labor costs
– Reduced duplicative tests
and procedures
– Reduced fraud and abuse
– Improved service
delivery efficiency
– Improved patient
convenience
– Reduced medical error
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7. THANKS YOU
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