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Articles in Sept 2005 issue of Health Management Technology

• New quality measures from NCQA
• Hybrid imaging systems
• Point-of-Care dictation solution
• IT helps monitor patients with chronic disorders
• Right from the start: a Colorado ambulatory surgery center uses software to deliver clinical efficiency to physicians and timely billing and reimbursement to the back office
  by Robin Blair
• Tablet PC for doctors
• Remote bedside monitoring
• "Free" software not so free
• Superspeed servers
• Angiography coding tool
• Contract management solution
• Server farm workhorse
• Automated claims status module
• Bolstering bottom lines: nowhere is the domino effect more noticeable than in healthcare organizations that strengthen their coding functions and claims operations with specialized software. It streamlines and expedites coding, reduces A/R days and helps
  by Richard R. Rogoski
• Patient privacy: the right to know versus the need to access
  by Darice M. Grzybowski
• Revenue cycle reimbursement
• Multiple OS server
• $156 billion NHIN model is on the table
• Automated OPL case review
• Streamlining pediatric patient care: Ohio pediatric hospital centrally automates scheduling among outpatient clinics to care for more young patients, improve customer service and build revenue
  by Kathleen Waton
• SSO Medical App Portal
• Shortfall in Senate funding
• Like it? Yes. Need it? Yes. Buy it? Nah: in an exclusive HMT survey, physicians demonstrate that they whole-heartedly understand and support healthcare IT, but they're not yet queuing up to buy every last piece of software
  by Robin Blair
• The math of healthcare
  by Robin Blair
• Saving lives with teletrauma video communications: trauma surgeons provide consultative services to rural communities using state-of-the-art videoconferencing technology
• Multilingual Web sites for hospitals
• Clinical data standards: case histories
• Securing the healthcare border: healthcare professionals need access to patient information 24/7. Protecting it may be an IT organization's greatest challenge—or nightmare
  by Mark Elliott
• Patient safety bill finally passes
• Claims & coding hotlist
• Capacity management: the bedrock of efficiency: Houston hospital takes the creative high road to managing patient flow and beds with wireless technology and hand-helds
  by Robin Blair
• Brink of the future: AHIMA convention addresses the status of the new classification system, how consumer-driven health efforts and national and regional EHR initiatives are affecting the role of the HIM professional, plus other hot topics
  by Mike Hilts
• Mature laboratory system
• More power, same price