The patient is the method of transport of clinical data between locations. The patient takes copies of lab orders, lab results, prescriptions, etc. between health care locations because the IT systems don’t talk to each other (that is if the locations are using IT systems like EMRs). Even locations within the same health care system.
Our next Pediatric Grand Rounds speaker is Muhammad Munir, M.D., with Serenity Medical Associates. Dr. Munir is a child and adolescent psychiatrist. Dr. Munir will be providing a lecture titled “Management of Mood Disorders in the Primary Care Setting”. In this lecture, Dr. Munir will highlight the importance of mental health in pediatric care settings. He will provide an overview of management of mood disorders in children and adolescents. He will also illustrate the importance of collaboration for delivery of care to pediatric populations.
These sessions are provided monthly and are eligible for CME. We provide these offerings on the first Wednesday of each month at 7:30 a.m. in the multi-service conference rooms on the 3rd floor of the professional building. Breakfast refreshments will be served.
If you have any questions about this, you can contact Dr. Robert Lindeman at Community North’s pediatric unit at 317-621-5474.
The following was forwarded by a colleague at Northpoint Pediatrics, who wanted to share this information with the community. Thanks for the input, Linda
The Centers for Disease Control and Google have teamed up to create a new web site. The CDC hopes this new site will serve as an early warning system for flu outbreaks. CDC said the information will allow them to alert hospitals, clinics and doctors to stock up on tests and drugs before an outbreak intensifies in their areas
It is a very user-friendly site. Take a look at it and let us know what you think… http://www.google.org/flutrends/
Here is the copy of the presentation that I promised.
We have launched a new site design for Associates for Women’s Health. You can visit them online at www.afwhealth.com
Daron Earlewine, young adult pastor at East 91st Street Christian Church in Indianapolis, made a reference to Community Hospital North’s state-of-the-art maternity unit in a November 30 sermon. Click here to hear the excerpt. Or, you can listen to the entire sermon.
To learn more about Community Hospital North’s exceptional approach to maternity care, watch our video:
The Indiana Heart Hospital is the only hospital in the city to be named for the third consecutive year to the 100 Top Hospitals for cardiovascular care in the tenth annual study released by Thomson Reuters. The top performing 100 hospitals are identified as setting the nation’s benchmarks for clinical and managerial excellence in cardiovascular care. The winners and study results will be published by Modern Healthcare magazine.
“These hospitals provide enormous value to their communities because heart disease is still the nation’s number one killer,” says Jean Chenoweth, senior vice president for performance improvement and 100 Top Hospitals programs in the Healthcare business of Thomson Reuters. “They have set the new national standard for cardiovascular disease outcomes, process of care, efficiency and lower costs.”
The study, 2008 Thomson Reuters 100 Top Hospitals: Cardiovascular Benchmarks for Success, ranked the performance of 970 hospitals around the country by analyzing clinical outcomes for patients diagnosed with heart failure and heart attacks, and for those who received coronary bypass surgery and angioplasties. To qualify, hospitals must achieve high scores across eight equally weighted performance criteria that reflect use of evidence-based medicine, good clinical outcomes, high procedure volume, great efficiency, and reasonable cost.
“The Indiana Heart Hospital is one of the most innovative hospitals in the country,” said CEO Tom Malasto. “To receive this honor again speaks to the quality of our employees and physicians, assisted by our state-of-the art technology. This award exemplifies our focus on delivering a safe and exceptional experience for both patients and their families.”
The study found that the 100 Top Hospitals cardiovascular award winners, as a group, performed 63-percent more bypass surgeries and 42-percent more angioplasties than peer hospitals. According to Thomson Reuters, this suggests that performance of bypass surgery is increasingly performed in centers of excellence. In addition, Thomson Reuters says the mortality rate for bypass surgery was 26-percent lower in the 100 Top Hospitals cardiovascular winners. The award-winning hospitals demonstrated higher performance on the evidence-based core measures published by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and cost $1,542 less per case, on average.
The Indiana Heart Hospital will be formally recognized during a presentation at the 2009 100 Top Hospitals Summit in Dana Point, California, in June.
A complete list of winners and study results are available at www.100tophospitals.com and www.thomsonreuters.com
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