VHIE Collaborative HRO CORE Presentation

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Interview with Sandi Mitchell, Claire English & Gay Stahr By Kayla Krawzyk Special Feature for the JPSys Pulse Newsletter reprinted for our blog. Sandi Mitchell and the Clinical Data Quality Team have been focused on the VA’s Journey to become a High Reliability Organization (HRO). Excitement rose when J P Systems, the VHIE Analytics and…

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Nursing Workflows and the Importance of Data Quality

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By Teresa Saxon, R.N.  Healthcare data quality analysis has many layers of complexity ranging from  discovery of anomalies  to how they are repaired. In simplified terms, poor data quality can be characterized by missing, miscoded or misplaced data in a patient’s record. Data quality is especially important in the nursing field since nurses interact with…

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The Importance of Immunization Reporting

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Vaccination records (sometimes called immunization records) provide a history of all the vaccines a patient has received. These records are important as they may be required for jobs, travel, or school. Immunization records are compiled by a patient’s medical providers consolidating their vaccinations and reporting them to Immunization Information Systems (IIS).  IIS’s are usually run…

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J P Systems Wins 120 M VA Terminology Services Support Recompete

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Clifton, VA – June 28, 2021, J P Systems, Inc., JPSys, received notification of a U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs recompete contract award, which is a single award, Indefinite Delivery, Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract for clinical terminology standards services with a ceiling threshold of $120 million. The contract includes a base 5…

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The Importance of High Quality Data for AI Reliability

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Garbage in = Garbage Out = High Risk  By Lindsay Westervelt  J P Systems, Inc. Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a hot topic right now in healthcare for numerous reasons. Namely, AI has the potential to reduce clinical burnout and fatigue by improving Clinical Decision Support.  AI uses Machine Learning to create predictive logic and “act”…

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Keeping Everyone in the Know: New CMS ADT Rule

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Author: David C. Kibbe, MD On March 9, 2020, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued the Interoperability and Patient Access Final Rule aimed at enhancing interoperability and increasing patient access to health information. This Final Rule contains a new Condition of Participation (CoP) that requires all hospitals, psychiatric hospitals, and Critical Access Hospitals to electronically share (via an…

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The Importance of a Nursing Data Framework

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By Dr. Luann Whittenburg, RN, PMP, FHIMSS   A Nursing Data Framework can give healthcare providers a way to garner business intelligence to save money and reduce risk by improving workflows, load leveling personnel schedules, and improving patient safety.  With more than 4 million nurses in the U.S., nurses are the largest clinical segment of the U.S. healthcare…

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Data Has to Move at the Speed of Care!

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In Healthcare IT, clinical data needs to move!  Electronic Health Record systems (EHRs) need to send data both internally, such as other domain-focused applications like the Blood Bank, PACS System, Nurse Staffing, Sepsis Management, Respiratory, Wound Care, and Fetal Monitoring and and externally to another provider or the CDC. If your EHR can’t effectively exchange data within…

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Reduce Risk & Fiduciary Exposure using Electronic Data Exchange

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The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that patient harm is the 14th leading cause of global disease burden, comparable to malaria and tuberculosis, with 42.7 million adverse events occurring during hospitalizations. It is unsettling to learn that according to a scientific study in 2018, incoming Consolidated Clinical Document Architecture (C-CDA) data had a 100% error rate. Are the…

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