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Columns: Being Most Wired

Most Wired Asks: Is 2006 Your Year? Alden Solovy, Winter 2006, 6
Take the 2006 survey. Period.

Where Aardvarks and Imagination Meet, Alden Solovy, Spring 2006, 6
Using IT to improve health care quality and outcomes is one grand experiment

Innovation is in the Eye of the Beholder, Alden Solovy, Summer 2006, 6
Use ideas gleaned from others as both foundation and inspiration for innovation

What Are You Waiting For? Alden Solovy, Fall 2006, 6
When capital budget is allocated, the IT infrastructure needed to survive a disaster often is first cut

Columns: Data Set

Making STAT Faster, Suzanna Hoppszallern, Winter 2006, 76
Voice recognition as an antidote for report backlogs

It's a 24/7 Wireless World, Suzanna Hoppszallern, Spring 2006, 64
Low-maintenance Internet access pampers patients

Preparing for the Worst, Suzanna Hoppszallern, Summer 2006, 52
Business continuity testing distinguishes Most Wired

Tracking For Time Savings, Suzanna Hoppszallern, Fall 2006, 44
Costly and complex, active RFID pays off in key areas

Columns: Future Watch

The Systems Approach, Joe Flower, Winter 2006, 20
Though new questions reshape the health IT sales arena

Far-Reaching Developments, Joe Flower, Spring 2006, 16
Offshoring isn't just a manufacturing decision

Unfunded Mandate, Joe Flower, Summer 2006, 16
It takes more than $1 per person to wire health care

Humans Need Not Apply, Joe Flower, Fall 2006, 14
Plenty of health care processes are ripe for automation

Employee Involvement/Buy-in

2006 Innovators, Dave Carpenter, Summer 2006, 33
Clinicians' buy-in key to technology winners' projects

Poised for Growth, Dagmara Scalise, Summer 2006, 42
A Most Improved winner's tech turnaround readies it for expansion

Finances/Back-Office

Automating the Back Office, Alan Joch, Winter 2006, 30
Revamped business processes create a ripple effect in hospitals

Information Technology

A Practical Guide to CPOE, Amit Trivedi and Jane Jeffries, Winter 2006, after 44
A toolkit for hospital executives

CHIME Honors 2005 Award Winners, MWM Staff, Winter 2006, 54
2005 winners

All Grown Up at Children's Boston, Richard Haugh, Spring 2006, 10
From infrastructure to the point of care, new systems support pediatric mission and research potential

HR Information Systems, Lee Ann Runy, Spring 2006, 24
Innovative applications benefit staff from back office to bedside

From Basement to Boardroom, Chris Serb, Spring 2006, 38
Once an administrative afterthought, information technology becomes a top priority for a two-time most improved winner

Management/Governance

ETMC's Balance of Power, Dagmara Scalise, Winter 2006, 10
Meeting the IT needs of 15 Texas hospitals demands scalable systems and a straight-shooting CIO

Tim Stettheimer Named CIO of the Year, Chuck Appleby, Spring 2006, 44
Q&A with CHIME-HIMSS John E. Gall Jr. CIO of the Year Award Winner

Materials Management/Purchasing

Supply Chain Management, Richard Haugh, Summer 2006, 20
IT-powered procurement and payment saves time, money

Measuring/Tracking Outcomes

Reassessing IT Project Metrics, Alan Joch, Spring 2006, 18
Evaluating performance is an increasingly essential challenge

Online Tools/Remote Monitoring

Closing the Loop, Richard Haugh, Winter 2006, 36
Linked monitoring devices and EHRs round up data in real time

Patient Care, Quality & Safety

Medication and Delivery, Chris Serb, Winter 2006, 22
Without culture change, safety gains remain elusive

No Shortcut to Quality, Dagmara Scalise, Fall 2006, 26
Automated reporting requires major time, technology investment

Planning & Implementation

Phoenix Rising, Lee Ann Runy, Winter 2006, 42
A Most Improved winner identifies the upgrades needed through 2010 and beyond

Physician Order Sets, Dagmara Scalise, Spring 2006, 32
Making medicine easier and safer is a tough task

Wiring the Physician Office, MWM Staff, Spring 2006, 47
Executive Dialogue roundtable examining IT in docs' offices

MemorialCare's IT Road Map, Jan Greene, Summer 2006, 10
The five-hospital system has charted a steady increase in innovation since 1986

Baptist Health's Ask-Me Attitude, Chris Serb, Fall 2006, 8
In this system, white coats—not "suits"—guide IT adoption

Section: Solution Set

Solution Set, MWM Staff, Winter 2006, 69
Research, surveys and solutions from the world of information technology

Solution Set, MWM Staff, Spring 2006, 59
Research, surveys and solutions from the world of information technology

Solution Set, MWM Staff, Summer 2006, 47
Research, surveys and solutions from the world of information technology

Solution Set, MWM Staff, Fall 2006, 59
Research, surveys and solutions from the world of information technology

Small & Rural IT/Hospitals

Small and Rural Hospitals, Richard Haugh, Fall 2006, 16
Creative approaches to IT trump limited resources

Wireless Wireless/Bedside Technology

Cordless at the Point of Care, Lee Ann Runy, Summer 2006, 26
Most Wired hospitals take patient data beyond the desktop