Siemens Covers CPOE, ARRA at Innovations Forum

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) gathered public comments on its Stage 3 Meaningful Use (MU) requirements through May 30. The third and final set of MU rules are a core part of the plan to reform the American healthcare by leveraging health information technology (IT) to help reduce costs, eliminate redundancies, and convert from a fee-for-service to a fee-for-performance reimbursement system.

National Decision Support Co. (NDSC) enhanced its ACR Select, an integration-ready, imaging decision support platform based on American College of Radiology (ACR) appropriateness criteria.

The latest Soapware includes an order manager and continued progress toward 2014 meaningful use (MU). These features aim to deliver clinical value with maximum ease of use and also to meet MU 2014 requirements. Further features will be gradually added in future updates to continue to allow for a smooth transition and ample training time of MU 2014.

To achieve sustainable excellence in the quality and safety of healthcare, the radiology department at Broward Health Medical Center (BHMC) took a proactive approach to identify bottlenecks in study flows and streamline processes at every stage of imaging studies, from order entry to report posting. Its ultimate goal was to provide ordering physicians with radiologists’ reports in time to support a clinical diagnosis in an acute setting.

February 16, 2012 — In an effort to reduce the inappropriate use of medical imaging and improve quality of care, a large, tertiary-care hospital has successfully implemented a computerized physician order entry (CPOE) system with clinical decision support for radiology, according to a study in the February issue of the Journal of the American College of Radiology. Significant increases in meaningful use (for electronically created studies, from 0.4 percent to 61.9 percent; for electronically signed studies, from 0.4 percent to 92.2 percent) and the adoption of CPOE (from 0.5 percent to 94.6 percent) were observed.