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• Mark Leavitt Leaves CCHIT

  
  EMR and HIPAA — Authority: 423
  Today the big news was that Mark Leavitt is leaving his role as chairman of CCHIT. Healthcare IT news reported on the announcement: “The board accepts Mark’s decision with reluctance but appreciates his commitment to overseeing a seamless transition,” said H. Stephen Lieber, chairman of the board of ...
  16 hours ago

• Paper Chart to EMR Scanning List

  
  EMR and HIPAA — Authority: 423
  I’ve previously written about chart disposal after an EMR implementation and the concept of “ thinning your paper chart for scanning into an EMR .” Because of those posts, one reader asked me about feedback on a list of what things should be included in the “thinned” paper chart. Of course, my first ...
  22 hours ago

• Electronic Health Records Part II

  
  Why We Worry — Authority: 129
  Some notes from the writer, Andy Oram, of this O’Reilly Radar pos t when he attended the Massachusetts Health Data Consortium : According to the president of the Massachusetts eHealth Collaborative, Micky Tripathi, 80% of US medical practices consist of just one or two physicians, and small practices handle 90% ...
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• Truth Behind Free EMR Software

  
  EMR Blog — Authority: 129
  Google records more than a 1000 searches every month of people interested in free EMR software. Despite the common notion that “there ain’t no such thing as a free lunch” physicians continuously seek ways to acquire the EMR software without spending a single penny.There are three flavors of “free EMR” in the ...
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• Tablet PCs and EMR

  
  EMR Blog — Authority: 129
  Tablet PCs represents one of the latest and the best technology in the field of EMRs and these have been successful in keeping up their promise of providing a perfect electronic solution for maintaining the patient charts.  There are two main types of PC tablets: convertible style and slate style.One major difference ...
  1 day ago

• Question and Answer with Lynn Scheps, Government Affairs VP for SRSsoft EMR

  
  EMR and HIPAA — Authority: 423
  I as many of you have been trying to closely follow what’s been happening in Washington in regards to the HITECH act. There are a lot of moving parts and it’s hard to keep up. One of the most recent topics the committees have begun discussing is how the ARRA EHR stimulus money and “meaningful use” will apply ...
  1 day ago

• What you Need to Know Before Investing in Web-Based EMR

  
  EMR Blog — Authority: 129
  With the recession currently plaguing the lives of most Americans, spending money to implement Electronic Medical Records solution into practice may seem a bad idea. However, a great number of physicians have successfully implemented the “right-fit” EMR in their clinics to discover the increased efficiency of ...
  2 days ago

• EMR Security Problem

  
  EMR and HIPAA — Authority: 423
  On EMR Update a user posted an interesting security problem with their EMR software: I was on our user’s forum reading about a security flaw in our EMR. There were some discussions about the ability to circumnavigate prescription privileges and have your staff write themselves narcotics. We couldn’t figure out ...
  2 days ago

• EHR System Could Help Reduce Hip Fractures says Kaiser

  
  EMR Blog — Authority: 129
  HealthConnect, Kaiser Permanente’s electronic health record system in California, is in the process of formulating a new osteoporosis prevention program that could significantly drop cases of hip fractures in the nation by 25 percent.Coined the world’s largest civilian EHR database, HealthConnect will assist the ...
  2 days ago

• Academic Freedom and ED EHRs Down Under: Another Update and a W...

  
  Health Fitness & Beauty - health-fitness.marc8.com — Authority: 158
  In " Academic Freedom and ED EHRs Down Under: An Update " I wrote about the disputed essay on electronic health record (EHR) problems in the Australian state of New South Wales (NSW) by medical informatics professor Dr. Jon Patrick, Health Information Technologies Research Laboratory (HITRL), University of Sydney. ...
  3 days ago

• Workforce and Regional Extension Center Challenges in HITECH Act

  
  EMR and HIPAA — Authority: 423
  I just read one of the best blog posts I’d read in a long time. So much so that I just had to post part of it a link to it on my site. The post is called “ Far From Shovel-Ready ” by Anthony Guerra. I think you all should go and read the entire post. It’s well thought out and well written. I don’t know ...
  3 days ago

• New EMR Advertiser and 5 Advertiser Renewals

  
  EMR and HIPAA — Authority: 423
  I’m really happy to welcome a new advertiser to EMR and HIPAA: Plextra EHR. They have an interesting offering for doctors to be beta testers of their EHR Lite product and get the EHR software for free. It’s pretty interesting to see how all the various EHR vendors are working to get their EHR software to ...
  4 days ago

• What Does Meaningful Use Mean to You?

  
  EMR and HIPAA — Authority: 423
  One of my readers made some interesting observations about what meaningful use in a doctors office meant . It’s interesting how different people can look at the term meaningful use. Without getting into semantics, to me the words “meaingful use” means “a way to get government money.” Maybe I’m just a ...
  5 days ago

• YouTube video sinks Turnbull minder

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 431
  A media minder for Federal Opposition Leader Malcolm Turnbull has reportedly quit his job after being linked to an online bout of Liberal factional warfare. The video parodies Liberal MP Alex Hawke by portraying him as an enraged Adolf Hitler, echoing a YouTube trend of dubbing Hitler biopic Downfall with fake ...
  6 days ago

• SourceMedical Offers EHR Compliance Guarantee For Surgery Centers

  
  Cataract Outsourcing — Authority: 142
  SourceMedical, a leading source of outpatient information solutions, announced the Vision Electronic Health Record Compliance Guarantee Program, which assures that the company’s Vision EHR will be compliant with the forthcoming government-issued ASC certification requirements for federal stimulus reimbursement ...
  1 week ago

• HHS Pays Health Centers $27.8 Million to Implement EHR and Other IT

  
  Cataract Outsourcing — Authority: 142
  HHS has awarded $27.8 million to 27 health centers and health center networks across the country to implement electronic health records and other health information technology, according to an HHS release. Eighteen grants for a total of $22.6 million will support EHR implementation; four grants totaling more ...
  1 week ago

• New Medical Transcription Service Consortium for Sharing Patient Data

  
  EMR and HIPAA — Authority: 423
  I recently got an email about a new consortium of medical transcription service organizations (MTSOs), called the Medical Transcription Service Consortium. The basic concept is that these organizations will provide the tools for doctors who use their service to share patient information. The new framework they’re ...
  1 week ago

• Identity Resolution Daily Links 2009-11-06

  
  Identity Resolution Daily — Authority: 119
  [Post from Infoglide ] The Other Half of Entity Resolution “In a recent post, Jonathan McDonald quotes one definition of entity resolution: ‘According to Gartner, entity resolution is ‘the capability to resolve multiple labels for individuals, products or other noun classes of data into a single resolved ...
  1 week ago

• Academic Freedom and ED EHRs Down Under: An Update

  
  Health Fitness & Beauty - health-fitness.marc8.com — Authority: 158
  At the post " Academic Freedom Curtailed? " I wrote: read more
  1 week ago

• Case studies show how heath IT fits in today

  
  Covering Health — Authority: 432
  Writing for content, document and knowledge management publication KMWorld, David Raths evaluates applications of health information technology , or HIT, in a set of case studies which he wraps up into a handy overview of the utility and potential of HIT and electronic medical records. Raths breaks HIT up into ...
  1 week ago

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