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Project Criteria

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Project Criteria

Hassan Rizvi

CTU Online

Paul Axelband

HIT105

11-07-2008

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Electronic health records for hospitals and physician practices is the criteria for

selection to participate in this project by the Department of Health and Human Services.

Now a day’s information technology is playing a vital role in health care industry
for keeping electronic health records for their patients. There are many health cares
information systems (HCIS) in market but for health information technology (HIT) for
this project by the Department of Health and Human Services. Communities which has
been selected are:

1. (HIMSS) Health care information and management society.

2. Cerner millennium information systems.

3. 3M health information systems.

4. Next Gen health care information systems.

5. MDI achieve.

(HIMSS) health care information and management society is working to facilitate


quality patient care, innovative research and progressive medical education in
information technology for health care. (HIMSS) provides the software which automates
patient’s problems, demographics, vital signs, progress notes, past medical history,
medication, radiology reports, immunizations and laboratory data, which prioritize the
work flow for hospitals and physicians practices.

(HIMSS) is also contributing in, Nationwide health information network (NHIN),

through this network all hospitals around the country are connecting with each other to

share patients medical history and much more.

(HIMSS) also have a health record association with the name of HIMSS EHR
Association who take care of electronic health record (EHR) in many hospitals
nationwide or supports them with their (EHR) software.
(HIMSS) have already issued a book for information technology planning in
hospitals and physician practices with the name of The Health Care Information
Technology Planning Field Book, which is written with leadership experience by the two
CIO’s of (HIMSS). In this book there is a planning guide for health care information
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technology which gives step by step guidance to hospitals and health care systems to
build there (EHR) electronic health records aggressively and move forward for
infrastructure approaches. Any hospital or physician can order this book from (HIMSS)
web site.

References

Home page. Retrieved November 04, 2008, from HIMSS web site:

http://www.himss.org/ASP/index.asp

Home page. Retrieved November 04, 2008, from Centers of Medicare and Medicaid

services web site: http://www.cms.hhs.gov

Home page. Retrieved November 04, 2008, from CERNER web site

http://www.cerner.com/public/

Home page. Retrieved November 05, 2008, from 3M web site

http://solutions.3m.com/wps/portal/3M/en_US/3M_Health_Information_S
ystems/HIS/

Home page. Retrieved November 04, 2008, from NEXTGEN web site

http://www.nextgen.com/
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Home page. Retrieved November 04, 2008, from MDI Achieve web site

http://www.mdiachieve.com/

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