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• Real Participation in RHIO and HIE

  
  EMR and HIPAA — Authority: 128
  Everyone seems to love talking about RHIO, HIE and all of the other various initiatives happening around sharing patient health information amongst doctors. This weekend, I want to open it up to you the readers to get an idea of what type of participation you’ve had in an RHIO, HIE or other clinical data exchange. ...
  19 hours ago

• OpenEMR Success Story

  
  EMR and HIPAA — Authority: 128
  A little while back I read an interesting EMR success story using the open source EMR appropriately named OpenEMR. The story is by Joe Holzer and I got his permission to republish it here for all to enjoy. You can find more about Joe on his website (not the normal website) or at his email im@holzerent.com I think ...
  3 days ago

• Dodge Is Using Microsoft Tags To Give Away Prizes – Why Can’t the FDA Use the Same Technology for Medical Device Information And Save Lives?

  
  The Medical Quack — Authority: 533
  If you are a regular reader of this blog you know I have suggested this before and even sent it off to the FDA without a response, well so much for those “contact us” pages I guess.   It’s more important it seems to have a chance to win a prize than maybe save a life?  I am not discounting this at all and ...
  4 days ago

• New Branches on the Family Tree: Website to Track Generations of Family Medical Information Sprouts

  
  EMR Blog — Authority: 132
  The traditional family tree represents branches of names from generations past. With Health IT, this image may sprout into something more complex to include family medical information. All too often, valuable family health information is not known and lost as part of a comprehensive health record. However, this ...
  4 days ago

• Vista (VA EMR) Is Not Meant for Solo Docs and Small Group Practices

  
  EMR and HIPAA — Authority: 128
  The VA announced about 4-5 years ago that they would be releasing their Vista EMR as an open source package. Of course, the headline read “Government Gives Away Free EMR.” In essence, this was true. The government was making their Vista EMR available for free. In fact, I remember one of the people in HIM had ...
  4 days ago

• South Florida EMR Service Provider has Huge 4th Quarter Gains

  
  Your Story — Authority: 592
  A+ Medical billing and EMR Service Company, Physicians Billing and EMR Services, LLC. www.mdbillingservice.net
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• Where Meaningful Use Should Be Focused

  
  EMR and HIPAA — Authority: 128
  “”Meaningful Use” should be linked to those two things (cutting costs and better care).” -Russ Reese in the comments . The above assertion about Meaningful Use was made in the comments and I was kind of struck by it when I first read it. What should be the components of meaningful use? A doctor ...
  5 days ago

• New Study Finds Health Disparities Exist with EHR Adoption

  
  EMR Blog — Authority: 132
  According to a recent study published by Health Affairs, hospitals in which racial and ethnic disparities exist are less likely than other hospitals to have adopted electronic health records (EHRs). Researchers surveyed 2,368 hospitals about their use of electronic systems for 24 functions. The hospitals that served ...
  5 days ago

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• On eBay, the Fax and Healthcare Interop

  
  Wes Rishel — Authority: 114
  This is a reply to Shane Taylor’s interesting comment on my Simple Healthcare Interop for Easy Applications post. I am using his comment as an opportunity to flog some important notions. Notion 1: You Can’t Step on Someone’s Toes with a Thoughtful Blog Comment Shane expressed a concern that his ...
  6 days ago

• VA Looking for Security Solutions with Medical Devices With Vista and Bandwidth

  
  The Medical Quack — Authority: 533
  Security is on everyone’s mind today and the VA is busy working on their solutions.  They have used some virtualization methods and as the article mentions the system is operating near capacity with Vista.  Some devices are causing interruptions with malware and security patches, so it sound like have have some ...
  6 days ago

• Remote Monitoring Yields Healthier Patients – More EHR and PHR Integration In The Works And Privacy Issues Should Be Addressed

  
  The Medical Quack — Authority: 533
  Earlier this year the company created a blue tooth chair scale for those who have problems standing on a scale.  As mentioned in the article, many insurance companies are not reimbursing for the use of such devices that report data, but there are some, such as CareMore in California who are.  With devices that ...
  6 days ago

• Best Advice for Those Implementing an EMR

  
  EMR and HIPAA — Authority: 128
  Since it’s the weekend, I like to open it up for the readers of this site to share their knowledge. Let’s hear the best advice you could give to someone who is implementing an EMR. I’ll admit that I had a hard time just choosing one piece of advice. My first thought was mapping your current workflows and map ...
  6 days ago

• Difference Between EHR and PHR

  
  ICMCC Website Articles — Authority: 153
  “The Electronic Health Record (EHR) and the Personal Health Record (PHR) are not the same in any aspect. Though the two are related to the collection of data, they have many differences.In EHR, the hospital or the health care centre or the practitioner has control over the documents. But in PHR, it is the individual ...
  1 week ago

• EMR Stimulus Money is All or Nothing

  
  EMR and HIPAA — Authority: 128
  The wonderful John Chilmark posted a short message he heard from a Keynote address by John Halamka at the PHAT conference put on by the Harvard School of Public Health. Here’s the message: there will be no partial reimbursement for meeting just part of meaningful use . Its all or nothing folks. I think we ...
  1 week ago

• Current security standards too complex, expert says

  
  ICMCC Website Articles — Authority: 153
  “A federal health information technology advisory panel heard a whole day of testimony on the state of data security, and, not surprisingly, the testimony reflected the findings in a recent spate of public reports: Data security breaches are on the rise and healthcare organizations are ill-prepared to deal with ...
  1 week ago

• Electronic health records could be a deadly target during a cyberwar

  
  ICMCC Website Articles — Authority: 153
  “Most health officials worry about hackers stealing sensitive information such as an AIDS diagnosis from someone’s electronic medical record, but a technology manager for a health care system in the Pacific Northwest said it’s just as likely the digital files could be a target of terrorists or a nation state ...
  1 week ago

• Three Denver Area Health Care Organizations Link Patient Electronic Health Records to Improve Care and Safety

  
  ICMCC Website Articles — Authority: 153
  “Three of the largest Front Range health care organizations are taking an unprecedented leap forward in health care reform by improving care for more than a million Coloradans with an interconnected electronic patient record exchange system.The Children’s Hospital, Kaiser Permanente Colorado and Exempla Healthcare ...
  1 week ago

• Update: MedLink to Offer MedLink EHR as a Software as a Service (SaaS)

  
  ICMCC Website Articles — Authority: 153
  “MedLink International, Inc. announced today that it will be providing the option of its MedLink TotalOffice EHR as a Software as a Service (SaaS) starting next month. The SaaS model will further assist providers to qualify for “meaningful use” by offering an affordable EHR framework to meet federal and state ...
  1 week ago

• PHAT: Presentations

  
  ICMCC Website Articles — Authority: 153
  Below you find links to the PHAT presentations at Harvard University, including those by Ashish Jha. Why Health IT and Why Now? Ashish Jha [November 16, 2009, 9:40 am]Slide Deck for PHAT 2009 Introduction Connecting Patients, Providers, and Payers, John Halamka [November 16, 2009, 10:00 am]Slide Deck for PHAT 2009 ...
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