Summertime staples tend to come in the form of waves: heat, beach, and (you knew it was coming…) fashion. What’s cresting and crashing all over the streets this season? American Apparel gear, as sported by our Dutch darling of a style find, Annabel Troost. Like Vera, Aminah, Por, and Ulrikke all before her, Annabel manages to take an AA piece and fashion it to suit her own. On this particular day, the international cutie made made waves in SoHo by complementing her pink AA dress with strappy sandals below and a beaded bikini beneath. We’d beg Annabel not to cross back over the pond to her home in London, but then, why mess with such fashionable flow?
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Health Data Management June 1, 2009 Byline: Gary Baldwin Catherine Bruno has an ambitious vision for Eastern Maine Healthcare Systems, a seven-hospital, $872 million organization based in Brewer. “We’d like all the hospitals at stage 7,” the vice president and CIO says, referencing the highest rung on the EHR continuum established by HIMSS Analytics. The health system has invested heavily-$75 million over the last seven years – toward that goal. Last October, it completed the first phase of installing a standardized clinical information system, from Cerner Corp, Kansas City, Mo., across all its facilities. The flagship hospital, Eastern Maine Medical Center, has deployed CPOE, qualifying it as EMHS’ first Stage 4 entry.
On Determining a CPOE Timetable We’ve developed a readiness assessment tool. Our member hospitals use the survey to understand the resources needed. We ask how many clinicians are using the computer, how standardized is the care. If you have a standard admission order set for a particular diagnosis, you can preprogram the system to support it.
On the Difficulty of Adopting CPOE You can’t just put in a CPOE system out of the box. At Eastern Maine Medical Center, we did over 100 workflow designs to prepare. If you have a radiology exam order, what happens to it? Whose work list does it show up on? CPOE requires significant input. We logged 27,000 staff hours to put in the system. here eastern maine medical center
On the Limits of Universal Builds It is not that simple to use the standardized sets we built at Eastern Maine Medical Center at the other hospitals. We have no standardized medication formulary. However, we are trying to build one that would enable us to create an order set and move it to another hospital.
