Minnesota e-Health Update for the Week of March 25, 2013

Minnesota
Date Change - Minnesota e-Health Workgroup Activity: Adoption and Effective Use Workgroup Meeting
The April 10 meeting of the Adoption and Effective Use Workgroup has been postponed until May.
When: May 6, 2013, 1:30-4:30p.m.
Where: MDH-Freeman Building, Room B-144, St. Paul, MN *Note the location*
All workgroup meetings are open to the public. All comments and questions regarding the Adoption and Use workgroup, including for a phone-in option, should be directed to Karen Soderberg at Karen.soderberg@state.mn.us or 651-201-3576.

Reminder: UP-HI Hosting Career Fair, Offering Free Exhibit Space to Health Organizations Recruiting Informatics Professionals
The University Partnership for Health Informatics (UP-HI) will host an HIT Career Fair on Friday, April 12, 2013, at the University of Minnesota - Twin Cities Campus, McNamara Alumni Center. The event is free for health organizations to exhibit/recruit health informatics professionals and free for students to attend. The deadline to request free exhibit space is April 3, 2013. More information is now available or contact Daniel Chan at chan0876@umn.edu.  

Did you know…
In Minnesota, 95% of clinics with EHRs are e-prescribing.
Source: Minnesota Department of Health, Office of Health Information Technology, MN HIT Ambulatory Clinic Survey, 2012. 

National
Resources for Critical Access Hospitals and Small Rural Hospitals
ONC has launched the first in a series of web pages tailored to meet the health IT needs of Critical Access Hospitals (CAH) and small, rural hospitals. This effort is in support of our goal to see 1,000 CAHs and small, rural hospitals obtain Meaningful Use by the end of 2014. The pages are packed with resources, lessons from the field, health IT implementation support tools and more. You can also find Federal funding opportunities for health IT infrastructure (e.g., hardware, software, broadband). We encourage you to review and share the information among CAHs and rural hospitals in your communities. To access these web pages, visit: http://www.healthit.gov/ruralhealth.  

Indication Based Prescribing Prevents Errors, Keeps Problem Lists Current
An AHRQ-supported study found that requiring a clinician to link medication orders to patient health problems prevents wrong patient orders and keeps problem lists up to date. “Indication-Based Prescribing Prevents Wrong Patient Medication Errors in Computerized Provider Order Entry (CPOE)” appeared in the March issue of the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association. The abstract is available at http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23396543.

Updated Friday, 12-Apr-2013 15:35:56 CDT