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ADPH Recognizes Three Hospitals For Newborn Screening Reliability, Alabama, USA
Two years ago more than one in four newborns screened for metabolic and other inherited
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Global AIDS Coordinator Goosby Discusses Slowing Spread Of Disease Among Pregnant Women
Eric Goosby, U.S. global AIDS coordinator and administrator of the President"s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, said that slowing the spread of HIV among pregnant women is one of his top priorities, the San Francisco Chronicle reports. In an interview with the Chronicle, Goosby said he also plans to focus U.S. global efforts on education and prevention, as well as convincing other nations to increase their involvement in the fight against HIV/AIDS. Although Goosby stressed the importance of indentifying people who could benefit from antiretroviral drugs, he added that "[w]e"re not going to be able to treat ourselves out of the epidemic, and prevention efforts will need to be continued and increased." He continued, "We also need to look for concentration of patients who have a higher probability of HIV infection, such as pregnant women -- getting them tested, getting them on antiretrovirals, which will prevent transmission to the fetus." Goosby estimated that only around 35% of pregnant women who are HIV positive and could benefit from antiretrovirals receive the drugs.Goosby also praised the efforts of PEPFAR, which was established six years ago under former President George W. Bush. However, he said that more work must be done and that the disease is not controlled. Sub-Saharan Africa, where about 23 million people are living with HIV, "is clearly the epicenter on the planet of this epidemic," Goosby said. He also noted that HIV/AIDS has begun to spread more rapidly among certain populations in Russia, Ukraine, China and Southeast Asia (Doyle, San Francisco Chronicle, 6/24).
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Senate Fiscal Year 2010 Spending Bill Excludes Abstinence-Only Education Funding, Needle Exchange Language
The Senate Appropriations Labor, HHS, Education and Related Agencies Subcommittee on Tuesday approved by voice vote its fiscal year 2010 spending bill draft, which excludes funding for abstinence-only sex education programs and, unlike the House bill, does not include language lifting the ban on the use of federal funding for needle exchange programs, CQ Today reports. According to the article, Committee Chair Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) "confirmed that the bill will not contain funding for abstinence-only education programs when the full committee marks it up on Thursday. Instead, the draft will contain funding for more comprehensive sex education, which can include teaching abstinence." Harkin also said that the Senate bill does not contain language lifting the ban on the needle exchange funding because that is "a matter for conference" (Wolfe, 7/28).
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Southeastern Orthopedic Center And Tattnall Hospital Drop CCHIT-Certified EMR Purchased For Its 35 Providers And Replace It With SRS Hybrid EMR

SRS, the leader in high-performance hybrid EMR solutions, announced today that Southeastern Orthopedic Center has selected the SRS hybrid EMR for its 35 providers after abandoning its recently purchased CCHIT-certified electronic medical record (EMR) solution. Southeastern Orthopedic Center and Tattnall Hospital Company, LLC, located in Southeast Georgia, operate 15 physician offices, a hospital, ambulatory surgery center, and physical therapy and imaging services throughout the state. "We purchased a CCHIT-certified EMR and subsequently considered ourselves well-positioned to secure the $44,000 EHR incentives available to physicians under the Economic Stimulus legislation," says Michael Kleinpeter, CEO of Southeastern Orthopedic Center and Tattnall Hospital. "However, before we even installed the EMR, we regretted our decision -- we realized that our physicians wouldn"t be able to use the EMR and that we would not earn the potential incentives." "Many physicians find CCHIT-certified, point-and-click EMRs unusable," says Evan Steele, CEO of SRSsoft. "The SRS hybrid EMR allows them to collect the discrete data they need, but without subjecting them to a labyrinth of productivity-sapping templates. We are pleased to have Southeastern Orthopedic Center and Tattnall Hospital join our national network of high-performance practices." SRS was designed with direct input by its high-performance physicians. Giving physicians a system that fits their needs helps them to work more efficiently and achieve a rapid return on their investment. SRS, which has built the largest national network of high-performance practices that successfully use an EMR, attributes its unmatched adoption rate to ease of use, fast implementation, and an accelerated timeframe for training physicians and office staff. "The CCHIT EMR we had purchased would have placed overwhelming demands on our physicians and resulted in a significant loss of productivity, even if we had overcome the initial implementation hurdles," says Chris Nicholson, M.D. of Southeastern Orthopedic Center. "The hybrid EMR will be easily adopted by all of our providers because it accommodates each of our individual practice styles, and I am confident that it will deliver workflow and patient-care advantages that far surpass whatever we might have received from the government." Southeastern Orthopedic Center Tattnall Hospital


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