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		<title>On the Mend</title>
		<description><![CDATA[John Toussaint and Roger Gerard have published a book entitled On the Mend: Revolutionizing Healthcare to Save Lives and Transform the Industry. Ordinarily, you would be well advised to be skeptical of anyone promising revolution and transformation, but not here.
  Here&#39;s an excerpt from the introduction:
  With few exceptions, [government policy] debaters assume [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://interopnurse.com/2010/08/on-the-mend/</link>
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		<title>CPOE Physician Incentives &#8211; Survey Results</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Survey:&#160;
A non-scientific survey of Health Information Technology (HIT) Experts, Consultants and Hospital &#160;Leadership about Physician Incentives used in the community to encourage MD involvement in training for new Computerized Provider Order Entry (CPOE) activations.


Purpose: &#160;
To determine the prevalance and obtain a sampling of types of MD incentives used for CPOE Training efforts.


Sample:
Convienience sampling of Health [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://interopnurse.com/2010/08/cpoe-physician-incentives-survey-results/</link>
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		<title>Physician Incentives to Promote CPOE Training Attendance (Survey)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Loading&#8230;
A published summary of the survey to follow&#8230;
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		<link>http://interopnurse.com/2010/07/physician-incentives-to-promote-cpoe-training-attendance-survey/</link>
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		<title>Random Acts of Prius</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The common theme that plaques the headlines are increasing gas prices, economic recession and a tragic oil spill that continues to threaten our Gulf Coast region.&#160; Images of the oil spill as seen on nightly television can truly shake our psychological moral fiber and pose the question, what are we doing to our environment?&#160; If [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://interopnurse.com/2010/07/random-acts-of-prius/</link>
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		<title>Leapfrog Report &#8211; Rather Astounding Findings</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Leapfrog Group Releases New CPOE Study
Leapfrog leaders discuss CPOE performance-testing results
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By Mark Hagland&#160;
On June 30, leaders of the Washington, D.C.-based Leapfrog Group, the large healthcare purchaser organization focused on patient safety and value, held a telephone press conference to highlight the results of their new study on computerized physician order entry (CPOE). The report, titled [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://interopnurse.com/2010/07/leapfrog-report-rather-astounding-findings/</link>
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		<title>Summary on Meaningful Use for HITECH Incentive Funds</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
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Official posting projected to be in the Federal Register  7/28/10 will start the clock for rules to be in effect 60 days  later
Meaningful Use is now defined as 2 sets of  objectives and measures (see images below)
&#8211;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;  Core Set with mandatory 15 objectives and measures  and,
&#8211;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;  &#160;Menu Set select [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://interopnurse.com/2010/07/summary-on-meaningful-use-for-hitech-incentive-funds/</link>
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		<title>Audible</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Please welcome our new sponsor &#8211; Audible
I am a recent subscriber to Audible and I must say I love the service. &#160;Its is great way to get caught up on all the books you have always wanted to read, but could not find the time. &#160;I find myself listening to books to actually enhance the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://interopnurse.com/2010/07/audible/</link>
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		<title>iPad or Pad Paper?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[To the staunches fans of Apple products one would call the iPad a different category of its own.&#160; I personally think besides all the media hype that it is simply a mobile device.&#160; I was initially in the market for an eBook reader.&#160; The original driver to purchase the product stems from my admittance to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://interopnurse.com/2010/07/ipad-or-pad-paper/</link>
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		<title>2010 Clinical Informatics Summit &#8211; Live Video/Audio Streaming</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#160;



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FEATURING KEYNOTES



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Future  Directions &#38; Interdisciplinary Collaboration: TIGER (Technology Informatics  Guiding Education Reform) Phase III
                        
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		<link>http://interopnurse.com/2010/06/2010-clinical-informatics-summit-live-videoaudio-streaming/</link>
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		<title>ISMP and CPOE</title>
		<description><![CDATA[At a recent blog post, I commented on my thoughts regarding ISMP and the use of their recommended standards. &#160; I am now hoping I can get readers to&#160;weigh in on a situation I have at my organization. &#160;We are preparing for CPOE and in the medication formulary build, the implementation team has recommended that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://interopnurse.com/2010/06/ismp-and-cpoe/</link>
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		<title>InterOpNurse Thoughts &#8211; Shared Staffing Model</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For every good Electronic Medical Record Implementation, a good plan must be in place to support the users and its varying degree of sophistication.&#160; One strategy that has been proven as a model sought after was a Super User Model. Super Users are often healthcare providers who, during deployment, are assigned to system support not [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://interopnurse.com/2010/06/interopnurse-thoughts-shared-staffing-model/</link>
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		<title>InterOpNurse Thoughts &#8211; Medication Formulary Standards (ISMP)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was recently involved in a much heated debate over utilizing standards in the roll out of our Computerized Provider Order Entry (CPOE) system. &#160;This issue in particular had to do with following a &#34;standard&#34; for drug name nomenclature, such as those recommended by the Institute for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP). &#160;Our organization was divided [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://interopnurse.com/2010/06/interopnurse-thoughts-medication-formulary-standards-ismp/</link>
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		<title>Dropbox</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dropbox is my cool technology tip of the week. &#160; For the mobile professional who may not always be utilizing the same computer on any given moment, Dropbox is the solution for you. &#160;It allows you to share files between multiple computers and even share to other Dropbox users. &#160;The synchronization is seamless!!! &#160;&#160;
I was [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://interopnurse.com/2010/06/dropbox/</link>
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		<title>SoCal HIMSS Presents&#8230;2010 Clinical Informatics Summit</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am so pleased to be a part of the planning committee for this first ever fusion of Clinical Informatics experts. &#160;Please mark your calendars!!!




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		<link>http://interopnurse.com/2010/06/socal-himss-presents-2010-clinical-informatics-summit/</link>
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		<title>In The News 02/19/2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[NURSING AND COMPUTERS: THE INEVITABLE MOVE TOWARDS ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS (EHR) 		
Nursing and computers have not always been a perfect mix. Typically, nurses try to get away from new computer systems as much as possible. However, it is an inevitable workflow evolution in today&#8217;s hospitals.  Read more&#8230; 			
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MEDICAL BILLING AND CODING 
 If you [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://interopnurse.com/2010/02/in-the-news-02192010/</link>
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