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JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2011 · VOLUME 8 ISSUE 1<br />
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THE CASE FOR REGULATING EMRS<br />
Tim Gee<br />
STANDARDS FOR MEDICAL DEVICE<br />
INTEROPERABILITY AND INTEGRATION<br />
Bikram Day, MS<br />
INTEROPERABILITY AND ACTIONABLE<br />
INTELLIGENCE: FUTURE REQUIREMENTS,<br />
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<a title="PSQH January/February 2011 page 4" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/1c3702e7?page=4"> 2 Contents JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2011 · VOLUME 8 </a>
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<a title="PSQH January/February 2011 page 6" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/1c3702e7?page=6"> EDITOR'S NOTEBOOK January/February 2011 Volum</a>
<a title="PSQH January/February 2011 page 7" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/1c3702e7?page=7"> Patient Safety EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD</a>
<a title="PSQH January/February 2011 page 8" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/1c3702e7?page=8"> By Barry P. Chaiken, MD, FHIMSS HEALTH </a>
<a title="PSQH January/February 2011 page 9" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/1c3702e7?page=9"> reduces the probability of the error occurring. T</a>
<a title="PSQH January/February 2011 page 10" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/1c3702e7?page=10"> By the Institue for Safe Medication Practices </a>
<a title="PSQH January/February 2011 page 11" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/1c3702e7?page=11"> make it a priority to ensure that two identifiers</a>
<a title="PSQH January/February 2011 page 12" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/1c3702e7?page=12"> By Jonathan W. Berlin, MD, MBA DIAGNOST</a>
<a title="PSQH January/February 2011 page 13" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/1c3702e7?page=13"> and pressure to deliver timely results. I</a>
<a title="PSQH January/February 2011 page 14" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/1c3702e7?page=14"> opines, “non-routine communications (of critical </a>
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<a title="PSQH January/February 2011 page 16" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/1c3702e7?page=16"> By Ahmed Ghouri, MD CLINICAL ANALYTI</a>
<a title="PSQH January/February 2011 page 17" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/1c3702e7?page=17"> provider and the payer's care manage- ment system</a>
<a title="PSQH January/February 2011 page 18" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/1c3702e7?page=18"> The Case for Regulating EMRs By Tim Gee P apers r</a>
<a title="PSQH January/February 2011 page 19" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/1c3702e7?page=19"> quality. The QSR specifies that requirements must</a>
<a title="PSQH January/February 2011 page 20" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/1c3702e7?page=20"> REGULATING EMRS </a>
<a title="PSQH January/February 2011 page 21" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/1c3702e7?page=21"> with this because conventional electromechanical </a>
<a title="PSQH January/February 2011 page 22" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/1c3702e7?page=22"> Standards for Medical Device Interoperability and</a>
<a title="PSQH January/February 2011 page 23" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/1c3702e7?page=23"> before it can be presented at the clinical user i</a>
<a title="PSQH January/February 2011 page 24" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/1c3702e7?page=24"> STANDARDS FOR INTEROPERABILITY REVIEWING T</a>
<a title="PSQH January/February 2011 page 25" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/1c3702e7?page=25"> IEC 80001 is a standard currently under d</a>
<a title="PSQH January/February 2011 page 26" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/1c3702e7?page=26"> Interoperability and Actionable Intelligence: Fut</a>
<a title="PSQH January/February 2011 page 27" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/1c3702e7?page=27"> gence is available when and where needed for care</a>
<a title="PSQH January/February 2011 page 28" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/1c3702e7?page=28"> TINITLEEROPERABILITY </a>
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<a title="PSQH January/February 2011 page 30" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/1c3702e7?page=30"> CRITICAL VALUES REPORTING: MAKING DAY-TO-DAY PER</a>
<a title="PSQH January/February 2011 page 31" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/1c3702e7?page=31"> Group leaders are responsible for using human res</a>
<a title="PSQH January/February 2011 page 32" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/1c3702e7?page=32"> DAY-TO-DAY PERFORMANCE </a>
<a title="PSQH January/February 2011 page 33" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/1c3702e7?page=33"> Figure 1. The immediate impact. The design of the</a>
<a title="PSQH January/February 2011 page 34" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/1c3702e7?page=34"> Open Source Health IT in the Psychiatric Care Env</a>
<a title="PSQH January/February 2011 page 35" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/1c3702e7?page=35"> healthcare facilities, developers, value-added re</a>
<a title="PSQH January/February 2011 page 36" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/1c3702e7?page=36"> By Joanne Dooley, RN; Jean Marie Rocha, MPH, RN; </a>
<a title="PSQH January/February 2011 page 37" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/1c3702e7?page=37"> Figure 1. Individual Hospital Project Committee S</a>
<a title="PSQH January/February 2011 page 38" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/1c3702e7?page=38"> 36 The first hurdle was to gain consensus on sta</a>
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<a title="PSQH January/February 2011 page 40" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/1c3702e7?page=40"> By Ruth Medak, MD, FACP SAFETY CULTU</a>
<a title="PSQH January/February 2011 page 41" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/1c3702e7?page=41"> · hospitals assign the newer nurses, </a>
<a title="PSQH January/February 2011 page 42" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/1c3702e7?page=42"> 40 beginning education at the pre- o</a>
<a title="PSQH January/February 2011 page 43" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/1c3702e7?page=43"> </a>
<a title="PSQH January/February 2011 page 44" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/1c3702e7?page=44"> By Tom Inglesby RFID SHOWCASE </a>
<a title="PSQH January/February 2011 page 45" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/1c3702e7?page=45"> January/February 2011 ■ Patient Safety & </a>
<a title="PSQH January/February 2011 page 46" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/1c3702e7?page=46"> RFID SHOWCASE RTLS temperat</a>
<a title="PSQH January/February 2011 page 47" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/1c3702e7?page=47"> ly abused, or had violence against them, accordin</a>
<a title="PSQH January/February 2011 page 48" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/1c3702e7?page=48"> A B Q A U R P QUALITY CONUNDRUMS Lynn Helmer, </a>
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