This Week in Document Imaging 2/27/2011

- The University of California Davis announced that it has awarded contract to InterSystems Corp. of Massachusetts for integration services with its Epic EHR system.


- Epic claims that its EHR system at Kaiser Permanente securely manages the records of 8.6 million patients.

- Epic announced it won EHR contracts from:

o Sentara Health System in Norfolk, VA, 8 hospitals, for $273 million

o Franciscan Alliance, including all 13 hosptials and 165 practices for a total of $100 million.

- Allscripts announced it won EHR contract from St. Joseph’s Health System, which has locations in California, Texas and New Mexico.

- The Department of Health & Human Services (HHS), using it new enforcement power, slapped a $4.3 million penalty against Cignet Health of Maryland for failure to honor patients’ requests for access to their medical records, as part of the HIPAA law.
- A study conducted by DowJones VentureSource found that:

o venture capital investment in medical software rose from $387.5 million in 2009 to $460 million in 2010, representing a growth of 19%

o an estimated 77% of venture capitalists predict that investment in healthcare information technology will continue to increase this year

- Massachusetts General Hospital agreed to pay HHS a fine of $1 million to settle a HIPAA violation involving 192 patients.
- KLAS Research announced results of a survey of customer satisfaction of EHRs in the ambulatory market:

o Allscripts = 16%

o Epic = 12%

o NextGen = 10%

- Hewlett Packard claims it won managed print services contracts, including its printers and MFPs from the following healthcare vertical customers:

o Bayer Schering Pharma AG

o Centra Health

o Children’s Hospital of Boston

o Cigna

o Exempla Healthcare

o Health Net

o Humana

o San Juan Regional Medical Center
- The Medicare Fraud Strike Force reported that it arrested 111 people last month, for allegedly bilking Medicare out of $225 million in false claims.
- Adam Greene, Senior Health IT and Privacy Advisor in the Office of Civil Rights (OCR), part of the Department of Health & Human Services (HHS), announced the minimum fine for HIPAA violation will increase from $100 to $50,000. This means that the minimum fine for misplacing just one patient record could result in a $50K fine.
- eClinicalWorks won an EHR contract from BayCare, a community based healthcare system in Tampa, FL.
- McKesson won an EHR contract from Stanly Regional Medical Center of Albermarle, NC.
- CapSite survey finds that 23% of hospitals plan to use consulting help to get their clinical systems up and running
- Kathleen Sebelius, Secretary of Health & Human Services, announced the following about the EHR vendors that have been certified as meeting federal “meaningful use” standards:

o 231 vendors now certified

o 66% of these have fewer than 50 employees

- David Blumenthal, National Coordinator for HITECH stimulus money announced:

o 21,300 healthcare providers have signed up to qualify

o $20 million has been paid out so far from Medicaid

o Medicare payments start in May, 2011
- PatientKeeper announced it won contract from Madison Memorial Hospital of Rexburg, Idaho.
- Cerner, maker of EHR systems, announced it is in negotiations to but the former Sam’s Town Casino complex in Kansas City.
- The Henry Ford Health System of Michigan announced that an employee lost a flash drive containing the records of 2,777 patients. This is their second HIPAA violation in less than a year.

- Allscripts partner, dbMotion, announced contracts with:

o Orlando Health

o University Hospitals of Cleveland

o Sharp Healthcare (which will connect to its Cerner system)

o Huntington Memorial Hospital of Pasadena, CA
- Siemens announced it won an EHR contract from Jefferson Regional Medical Center of Pennsylvania.

-=Greetings from Sandy Hook=-

This Week in Document Imaging 1/28/2011

- Medsphere announced it won a contract for its OpenVista EHR system from Cooper Green Mercy Hospital of Alabama.
- Meditech announced it won contract from Charlotte Hungerford Hospital of Connecticutt.

- BMC Healthcare of Maryland announced it will use Meditech EHR in hospital and eClinicalWorks in its physician offices.

- HIPAA breach. The St. Vincent Indianapolis Hospital in Indiana had to notify 1,800 patients that their protected health information (PHI) may have been compromised when a hacker successfully persuaded some employees to reveal a login to the hospital’s email system.

- A survey of hospital by Accenture shows EHR installs:

o Epic = 30%

o Cerner = 30%

o Eclipsys (division of Allscripts) = 10%

o GE Centricity = 10%

o McKesson = 10%

o Meditech = 5%

o Siemens = 5%

o Quadramed = 5%

- Children’s Hospital of Boston, MA announced that it acquired:

o eClinicalWorks as its EHR

o Perceptive (Lexmark) imageNOW as its document management system

o Hewlett Packard for its MFPs and printers

o NSi AutoStore as middleware to connect HP MFPs to imageNOW

- Allscripts announced that its EHR connects to Cardiac Science Corp’s automated external defibrillators and diagnostic cardiac monitoring devices.

- In survey published by OpenText of internal medicine trainees, it was revealed that over two-thirds were spending more than 4 hours per day on documentation.

- Cerner announced an install of its Millennium EHR system at Memorial Hermann Healthcare System of Houston, Texas, as well as Lancaster General Health of Lancaster, PA.

- According to The New York Times newspaper, the United States government and Israel’s government worked together to develop the Stuxnet worm that’s blamed for crippling Iran’s program to develop a nuclear weapon. The worm reportedly knocked out one-fifth of Iran’s nuclear centrifuges.

- HIPAA breach: A nurse fired for allegedly looking at the medical records of Tiger Woods is suing for defamation and says he never saw the golf star's files, the Orlando Sentinel reported Friday.

o David Rothenberg seeks 400,000 dollars in damages plus reinstatement and a letter of explanation from officials at Health Central, the hospital where Woods was taken after a November 2009 car crash.

o Hospital officials fired Rothenberg in December of 2009 for looking at the record of Woods three times within 10 minutes on his computer, according to the lawsuit filed Friday.

o Rothenberg, who faces the loss of his nursing license, accused the hospital of defamation and conspiracy to defame plus violating polygraph procedures and causing harm to his reputation.

o Rothenberg argues the evidence against him was circumstantial and that he left his computer terminal unattended and someone else logged in to peep at the golf star's medical records.

- According to a one industry author, in the year 2010, Epic secured EHR contracts from the following hospitals:

o Johns Hopkins

Catholic Health Services of Long Island

New Hanover Regional Medical Center

Ochsner

Moses Cone

Bronson

St. Joseph Michigan – Lakeland

Martin Memorial

Idaho – St. Luke’s

US Coast Guard

Provena

Aurora

University of Mississippi Medical Center

JPS Health Network

SUNY Upstate Medical University

LSU Health

Rochester General

ProHealth Care

Owensboro

Rockford

Sansum

Access Community Health Network

Bassett Healthcare

Stormont-Vail Health Care

Hurley Medical Center

Temple University Health System

Amphia Hospital (Netherlands)

Memorial Healthcare System

Orange Regional Medical Center

Tampa General Hospital

Wenatchee Valley Medical Center

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Xerox Phaser 6125 "What's the Total Cost of Operation"

In 31 years of selling laser printers to commercial accounts, well...I've pretty much seen it all. Over those years I've had many clients who did not purchase a laser printer from me, because they thought my printer was too expensive!

What peeves me the most is when I'm trying to communicate (help) the cost per page of a device or the total cost of ownership of the device. Many accounts will opt for the small inexpensive printers where the manufacturer states "with a maximum duty cycle of 40,000 pages per month" (Duty cycle: the maximum possible number of pages that can be printed per month) I ask you, what the heck does Duty Cycle really mean? Does it mean, I can print 40,000 pages each and every month on this device that only cost me $349 for the printer?

Let me show you what happens if you would print 40,000 pages per month on that device. The first printer device we'll look at is the Xerox Phaser 6125 (whoa, a Phaser, I'll need one of these to fight off the Romulans when Kirk and Spock pick me up later tonight).

I have this neat software package that can actually give the cost per page of most printers and multifunctional products and why shouldn't I. I'm the darn expert. Some software programs may vary in the price per page.

So, this really hot (phaser) Xerox Phaser 6125 sells for $349. While it has a neat print speed of 12 pages per minute for color and 18 pages per minute for black. The black toner cartridge cost for this device is $63.36 with a yield of 2,000 pages. Mind you that the 1,600 pages is based on probably 5% coverage of the page. There are three color cartridges, Cyan, and Yellow are $54.63 each and Magenta is $55.31 each. The estimated yield for the color cartridges is 1,000 pages based on 20% coverage.

Now, you may ask what is 20% color coverage of the page, pretty much if you condensed all of the color print area to one area, it means it can't cover more than 20% of the page. Take a trip here to see color page coverage examples

Back to the color cost per page (we're just gonna focus on the color cost per page), divide the cost of all four cartridges by the yield, and then add em up and you have a color cost per page of .1926. Ok, I gonna print me my  maximum volume of 40,000 pages, so, how much is that gonna cost me? It's gonna cost you $7,704 each and every month, and if you maintain that volume for 36 months, you'll be out a whopping $282,529! WHOA, NOW THAT'S A REALLY BIG NUMBER!

How about if you print all your docs with 40% coverage (go back to the page coverage link for an example). Get a load of this number, simple math it's twice the cost. $565,345 for the total cost of operation and that's about .39 cents per page. YIKES, THAT WILL ALMOST GET ME A RIDE INTO SPACE VIA THE RUSSIANS!

Wanna see more? At 100% coverage the Total Cost of Operation runs up to $1,413,217 and a cost per page for just under ONE DOLLAR. DAM, 1.4 MILLION DOLLARS THAT'S ENOUGH TO GET ME ON THE SPACE SHUTTLE FOR A WEEK!

Hey, I understand that most users don't print all their pages at 40%, and I understand (because I'm in the business) that this printer will might choke a few times before it prints 40,000 pages in one month, however how does the end user know this? There's no disclaimers, well maybe it can do 40,000 pages per month, but at 12 pages per minute that would take almost 55 hours to complete. Point is there should be some type of real measuring stick for these types of devices. Like there's no way on Earth or Romulus that this system will print 40,000 color pages per month every month and I don't like this "Print volume uniformly distributed over 30 days" it's in the fine print of the brochure!

In closing, if you're thinking about doing on 40,000 color pages per month, with 20% coverage on the page, opt for the SAVING MONEY, and call a Print4Pay Hotel member to save you some real cash. Here's a neat link (P4P Cafe) to get a quote on a Really Nice MFP so you can get that Really Expensive Ride to Romulus!!

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HP LaserJet FP3520 "Spec Review"

Hewlett Packard launched the Color LaserJet FP3520 featuring:

- Desktop color laser printer made by Canon
- 30ppm b/w or color top speed
- Base MSRP of $699
- A4 model, up to letter/legal size only
- 4 tandem OPC drum design
- 600x600dpi actual (advertised as offering 3600dpi with interpolation)
- Built-in print controller
- 515MHz processor
- PCL and PostScript print drivers standard
- 512MB RAM standard (can upgrade to 1GB)
- 10/100/1000BaseT & USB ports
- Optional hard drive for spooling
- 250 sheet output tray
- Optional auto duplex $200
- Comes standard with single 250 sheet paper drawer and 100 sheet stack bypass
- Optional 500 sheet paper drawer
- Handles up to 58lb. bond glossy stock in bypass or 500 sheet drawer
- Black toner cartridge yield of 5,000 pages based on 5% coverage per page for $133.99
- Color toner cartridges have yield of 7,000 pages each based on 5% coverage per page
for $264.99 each
- 17 second first page out time after sleep mode

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HP Recognized for Leadership in Managed Print Services by Global Industry Analyst Firms

PALO ALTO, Calif., Nov. 16, 2009

HP today announced its managed print services (MPS) offering has been recognized as the preferred choice for enterprise customers by IDC, a leading provider of IT research and advice.

HP Managed Print Services transforms business processes by optimizing a company’s imaging and printing infrastructure, effectively managing the total imaging and printing environment and improving and streamlining document workflows. It helps customers cut costs, increase productivity and reduce their environmental footprints.
HP was identified as the leader in a recent survey conducted by IDC, “Managed Print Services – Global Market and Provider Analysis.”(1) Within the survey sample, HP had the highest share of new and outstanding MPS contracts among hardcopy manufacturers.(2)
“HP has expanded its capabilities to strengthen the MPS industry with its IT heritage, and we continue to increasingly capture the growing MPS market and surpass expectations,” said Vyomesh Joshi, executive vice president, Imaging and Printing Group, HP. “Our recent momentum is a powerful proof point in HP’s strategy to establish long-term contractual relationships with the world’s top companies as we continue to lead the digital print transformation.”

The IDC report is the latest in a series of third-party studies that show HP’s leadership in MPS. Others include the 2009 Magic Quadrant for MPS from Gartner, which placed HP in the Leaders Quadrant(3) and Photizo Group’s 2009 MPS Market Forecast, which positions HP as the global leader.(4)

“The IDC study, coupled with HP’s recognized leadership in similar reports, firmly demonstrates that HP remains the best choice for customers as they invest in MPS and look for new ways to reduce costs and improve productivity,” said Bruce Dahlgren, senior vice president, Imaging and Printing Group, HP. “Once again, HP’s extensive product portfolio, strength in networking and services, and expert knowledge has positioned the company as a leader, demonstrating that customers continue to choose HP as their trusted partner in managed print services.”

In related news, HP recently announced a Managed Enterprise Solutions (MES) global business unit led by Bruce Dahlgren within the Imaging and Printing Group (IPG), an expanded alliance with Canon, enhanced channel-led programs, hardware and solutions, the HP Payback Printing Campaign and the largest ever rollout of HP printing workflow solutions.

The first of its kind for its comprehensive, demand-side coverage, IDC’s “Managed Print Services – Global Market and Provider Analysis” covers 10 countries in four geographic regions – the United States, Western Europe, Asia Pacific and Latin America.

The analysis shows that cost cutting is the primary motivator of adoption for MPS, with optimizing the printing infrastructure and environmental sustainability as other key motivators. Motivators also examined were regulatory compliance and security, paper document storage, business process transformation, a merger or acquisition, or a services contract extension.

“The results of the survey show HP’s strength in MPS,” said Angèle Boyd, analyst and group vice president, IDC. “With HP’s IT assets and HP Enterprise Services, formally EDS, IPG is a significant force in this growing market.”

About HP
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-=Cheers=-

HP Laptops for $298!

As I was glancing through my alerts for HP, I ran across and article from the LA Times.

"For one week starting Saturday, Wal-Mart stores will hold an electronics savings event which includes an HP laptop with 3GB of memory for $298; a Sharp 52-inch flat-panel television for $898 and a Sony Blu-ray player for $148."

I may have to get me one of each!!!!

=Cheers=-

HP Color LaserJet CM3530 Review

- Hewlett Packard is now offering a $600 end user rebate on its new Color LaserJet CM3530 color MFP featuring:

- Base MSRP of $2499
- Top speed of 31ppm color or b/w
- 4 tandem OPC drum design
- A4, so only letter/legal size output
- Actually made by Canon
- Copy/scan/print standard
- scan up to 600dpi
- $500 to add fax capability
- 50 sheet document feeder standard
- 75K/month maximum duty cycle
- Built-in print controller
- 515MHz processor
- 512MB RAM (can expand to 1GB)
- PCL and PostScript print drivers
- USB, 10/100/1000Base T ports
- 12.2 first color page out time
- 100 sheet stack bypass
- 250 sheet paper drawer
- Can add 500 sheet drawer
- Black toner yield of 5,000 pages based on 5% fill, sells for $109 each
- Color toners have yield of 7,000 pages each for $264.99
- 1200x1200dpi
- can feed a maximum of 10 envelopes
- auto duplex standard

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