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Articles in April, 2004 issue of Health Management Technology

• FDA passes final bar coding rule
• Accounting of disclosure system
• Where there's a will, there's a way; Alabama referral hospital combines scheduling and document imaging systems to create a paperless order-tracking system
  by Eric Daffron
• Predictive modeling modules
• Pathology voice recognition
• Streamlined support: centralized desktop management improves IT service at an Atlanta-based children's healthcare system
• Report guides docs on disease registry use
• Upgraded SSL VPN device
• MS-HUG releases list of 2004 winners
• McKesson Corp
• Core data sets released for physician practice EMRS
• Payer/provider contract mgmt
• OAO HealthCare
• ADE surveillance, reporting
• From here to publicity
  by Robin Blair
• Patient Safety solution
• Gaining credence and fast payments with software; a Midwest medical group eliminates redundant paperwork with a provider-credentialing program
  by Karin Lillis
• Wireless print server
• Essentials of a good RIS/PACS contract: following the rules of engagement in negotiating a partnership can prevent surprises or disappointments in a RIS/PACS implementation
  by Ali Birjandi
• E-visits for non-urgent care gain ground
• Pharmacy materials management tools
• Insurer gives members access to hospital treatment outcomes
• 1 year, $3 million, 0 problems: Chicago hospital achieves a 6-month ROI with new emergency department information system, and goes from impairing profitability to improving it
• Managed care hotlist
• High-resolution PET/CT system
• In with the old: "writing" is the newest form of technology, thanks to digital pens and paper
  by Nick van Terheyden
• Keeping data storage healthy: University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center takes action to manage research data files efficiently
• Online osteoporosis care center
• Baylor boosts systemwide IT overhaul
• VitalWorks Inc
• Free PDA decision support tool
• Speech rec system for practices
• QuadraMed Corp
• Surgical Instrument Management
• Patient safety, heftier IT budgets top list of CIO wants
• EMR data protection
• Setting safe standards: homegrown bar coding medication administration system helps VA hospitals minimize mistakes at the point of care
• DICOM enterprise storage
• Bases covered: multistate managed care organization uses information technology to meet regulatory requirements and save more than $1 million in labor costs
  by Richard R. Rogoski
• pMDsoft
• CFOs predict spending upswing
• Wireless telemedicine device
• Unibased Systems Architecture
• Bar code label software
• Better for brokers: New England health plan uses IT initiatives to build strong broker relationships
  by Tom Hamel
• Telemedicine works—now what?
  by Charles J. Jacobus
• CGE&Y named top firm
• Drug info system development