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Articles in Feb 2005 issue of Health Management Technology

• Technology helps, but no panacea for medication errors
• "Tag" technology turns hospitals into "smart space"
• Waves of efficiency: Midwest healthcare system forgoes the traditional document management fix and instead pursues a BPM solution to bolster its revenue cycle improvement
• High-resolution OR cart
• Integratable voice recognition
• States launch health information networks
• IT plays important role in 100K Lives Campaign
• More than a pocketful of knowledge: a family practice group uses integrated mobile technology at the point of care to improve decision-making and patient care
  by Darrick Nelson
• Ultrasound workstation
• Claims monitoring tool for payers
• Eliminating sticker shock: automating charge capture and supply chain management delivers a host of gains to a large Tennessee-based IDN
• CMS to cut medicare payment error rate
• The path to the future: Illinois specialty practice finds that replacing a practice management system can deliver all the efficiencies on its "must have" lists
  by Polly Walgren
• Configurable notebook
• RFID-based tracking suite
• Online insurance billing, payment
• Blues make news with use of IT
• Clinical information systems hotlist
• Processing for profitability: Blue Cross Blue Shield of Rhode Island applies automation to remittance processing—and even has outsourcers saying they couldn't do it faster or better. The health plan successfully reduced the required staff count by 50
• Compact surgical cart
• Against the grain: University of Arizona Medical Center automates the organ transplant process in-house using rapid prototyping
  by Sam Miller
• Asset tracking system upgrade
• Scheduling, surgery management
• The future of CIOs: Commonwealth Health Corp. CIO Matt Ebaugh speaks out on the changing role of the CIO—and how it may jeopardize the ability of healthcare organizations to compete
  by Robin Blair
• Web-based EDIS
• The CMS update cycle: short, short-sighted and short-changing the industry
  by Robert J. Leary
• Long battery life laptop
• Integrated EHR, PM software
• Wired hospitals offer better care, study says
• Putting patients first: regardless of the application implemented, healthcare organizations are on a steadfast mission to improve patient safety with the use of IT systems
  by Richard R. Rogoski
• Is speech recognition the Holy Grail? Speech recognition technology has been "two years away for the last 10 years." Here is a look at the issues and challenges that remain to be overcome
  by Nick van Terheyden
• IT spending, jobs and salaries looking up
• Nothing but 'net: a nonprofit hospital system's first CIO leads the transition from disparate, server-based clinical and financial information systems to a streamlined ASP hosted approach
  by Phil Reynolds
• People power
  by Robin Blair
• The best backup = no downtime
• Enterprisewide speech rec, dictation