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• Sermo Cutting 30 Workers, Source Says

  
  Xconomy — Authority: 660
  Healthcare IT , Health 2.0 , Layoffs Ryan McBride wrote: Sermo, the company that created the country’s largest online community of doctors, informed about 30 workers this morning that they will be laid off, according to a source familiar with the matter. The source says that the company employed 60 to ...
  18 hours ago

• .406 Ventures Backs WellAware

  
  Xconomy — Authority: 660
  IT , startups , deals Ryan McBride wrote: Boston-based .406 Ventures is investing in WellAware Systems’ new $7.5 million round of financing, the Charlottesville, VA, startup reports . The company has developed integrated sensors and software designed to help healthcare providers monitor senior patients. ...
  21 hours ago

• Troubled £12bn NHS IT System to be Scaled Back: UK MPs Come to Their Senses on Health IT. Will the U.S. Follow?

  
  Health Care Renewal — Authority: 547
  The UK National Programme for Health IT in the NHS, by the findings of the House of Commons Public Account audit committee , has been a £12bn debacle. Started as a starry-eyed utopian fantasy about experimental computerized clinical tools by former Prime Minister Tony Blair, nearly every possible mistake outlined ...
  1 day ago

• Privacy and Security of Electronic Medical Records

  
  Medical Practice Trends.com — Authority: 99
  One of my partners asked if our practice could use free GMail instead of replacing our old and failing mail server (not free) and having to purchase the licensing for the Microsoft software (definitely not free). When I looked into it, it turned out to be a bit more complicated than just deciding between a free mail ...
  2 days ago

• Appature Raises $3.5M, Led by Ignition and Madrona, to Expand Healthcare Customer Base

  
  Xconomy — Authority: 660
  deals , VC , Software Gregory T. Huang wrote: Well, it’s about time we confirmed this deal. Seattle-based Appature is announcing today a Series A equity financing round, worth $3.5 million, co-led by Ignition Partners and Madrona Venture Group. It’s an all-Seattle investor group, as seed-stage ...
  2 days ago

• MGMA Letter to David Blumenthal About HITECH Act’s EMR Stimulus Money

  
  EMR and HIPAA — Authority: 127
  The MGMA sent a letter to David Blumenthal warning that if done poorly the ARRA’s EMR stimulus money could result in “the needless squandering of resources and significant disruption to the nation’s healthcare system.” The bNet Healthcare blog gives a summary of MGMA’s recommendations to avoid this ...
  4 days ago

• Sec. Sebelius Says Physicians, Hospital Behind in Implementing Digital Medical Records

  
  Cataract Outsourcing — Authority: 144
  Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said that healthcare professionals have a “long way to go in a very short time” in order to implement electronic medical records by 2013, according to a report in the Kansas City Star. Speaking to a crowd at the Cerner Health Conference in ...
  4 days ago

• Healthcare IT Failure and The Arrogance of the IT Industry

  
  Health Care Renewal — Authority: 547
  In the Wall Street Journal healthcare blog post " Safety Guru: ‘Health IT Is Harder Than It Looks’ " here , reporter Jacob Goldstein reports on UC San Francisco hospitalist Bob Wachters commentary that: ... recent experience has confirmed that health IT is harder than it looks … Several major installations ...
  6 days ago

• Healthcare IT company? Check out new blog from Dr. David Blumenthal

  
  ExecutiveBiz Blog — Authority: 125
  If you’re a company in the healthcare IT space, here’s something to add to your daily reading: A new blog by Dr. David Blumenthal, national coordinator for health information technology at the Department of Health and Human Services. Launched a week ago, Health IT Buzz will have Blumenthal blogging on several ...
  1 week ago

• Interesting EMR Data Conversion Story

  
  EMR and HIPAA — Authority: 127
  One of my readers sent me the following story about an EMR data conversion experience they had just had. I’ve removed the name of the EMR vendor and PMS vendor, because I think this could apply to a lot of the “jabba the hut” EMR vendors out there. Enjoy! I had an interesting conversation today with one of ...
  1 week ago

• HIT Projects You Can Implement Today

  
  EMR and HIPAA — Authority: 127
  Many people are sitting their on the proverbial fence waiting to see what’s going to happen with the HITECH act and meaningful use before they actually go and implement an EMR. Now, I’m not going to let those people off the hook from evaluating and selecting an EMR. That should be done anyway. However, lately ...
  1 week ago

• EHR & The Ghost of Technologies Past

  
  IT Business Alignment — Authority: 92
  “It’s like déjà-vu all over again” Yogi Berra famously once said, and yes, it is. We’ve been here before.  The promise of a new technology the will create so many efficiencies – too many to count.  It will make everyone’s life so much ‘easier’ and allow the organization to make unprecedented ...
  1 week ago

• Real Participation in RHIO and HIE

  
  EMR and HIPAA — Authority: 127
  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. ...
  1 week ago

• Shared Usernames: HIPAA Security No-No

  
  Cataract Outsourcing — Authority: 144
  Many times in our work with medical facilities and ASCs, we see usernames shared among multiple people. Sometimes this is for (perceived) convenience, sometimes it is because more than one person shares a workstation or terminal and sometimes it is to get around software vendors’ licensing terms to avoid paying ...
  1 week ago

• Health IT Training Gets Federal Stimulus Push

  
  Careers — Authority: 111
  The national coordinator for health IT, Dr. David Blumenthal, recently announced that training for jobs in health IT will be coming to a community college near you.Federal stimulus money from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (to the tune of $80 million dollars) has been put aside for grants to help ...
  1 week ago

• OpenEMR Success Story

  
  EMR and HIPAA — Authority: 127
  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 ...
  2 weeks ago

• Building Your Office Network Infrastructure

  
  Medical Practice Trends.com — Authority: 99
  It doesn’t matter if your practice is just a single doctor at one location, or numerous physicians across multiple satellite offices. Either way, even before you can implement an EMR system, you’ll need to start by developing your system infrastructure. Although typically a contractor will take care of the ...
  2 weeks ago

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

  
  EMR and HIPAA — Authority: 127
  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 ...
  2 weeks ago

• EMR Stimulus Money is All or Nothing

  
  EMR and HIPAA — Authority: 127
  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 ...
  2 weeks ago

• McKesson and eClinicalWorks Complete Nuance’s Dragon Medical EHR Program

  
  Cataract Outsourcing — Authority: 144
  Burlington, Mass.-based Nuance Communications, a leading supplier of speech solutions, announced that eClinicalWorks, a privately held leader in the ambulatory clinical systems market, and McKesson Practice Partner, a leading integrated electronic health record, medical billing and appointment scheduling software, ...
  2 weeks ago

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