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

  
  EMR and HIPAA — Authority: 128
  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 ...
  6 hours ago

• CareMedic acquired by Ingenix

  
  Identity Blogger — Authority: 107
  My current employer, CareMedic, has been acquired by Ingenix. The announcement is here . I am cautiously optimistic that this will be a good deal for both parties.
  3 days ago

• Interesting EMR Data Conversion Story

  
  EMR and HIPAA — Authority: 128
  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 ...
  4 days ago

• HIT Projects You Can Implement Today

  
  EMR and HIPAA — Authority: 128
  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 ...
  5 days ago

• 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. ...
  1 week 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 ...
  1 week 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 ...
  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 ...
  2 weeks ago

• Study Shows Little Benefit from EMR in Hospitals

  
  EMR and HIPAA — Authority: 128
  People have been buzzing over a recent New York Times article (requires login, but you can get a login and password here ) which discusses a Harvard study showing little benefit seen so far in Electronic Patient Records. The study is interesting and worthy of consideration. I think this part of the Times article ...
  2 weeks ago

• EMR Selection and Implementation Books

  
  EMR and HIPAA — Authority: 128
  I’ve had in mind and been approached by a number of people about writing a book about the EMR selection and implementation process. If you’ve read this blog for a while, you know I’ve had in mind to write some e-Books. I like the e-Book better than a hard copy book, but maybe if I combine all the e-Books it ...
  2 weeks ago

• Problems with ARRA EMR Stimulus Money

  
  EMR and HIPAA — Authority: 128
  I recently read a Healthcare IT article that talks about some of the challenges with the EMR stimulus money. Here’s a couple of the challenges discussed with my commentary. Albert L. Strunk, MD, representing the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, said ACOG is concerned that the measures, while ...
  2 weeks ago

• Paper Chart to EMR Scanning List

  
  EMR and HIPAA — Authority: 128
  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 ...
  3 weeks ago

• It’s The Jobs _ _ _ _ _ _ !

  
  DonStorch.com — Authority: 124
  While the Obama Administration tries to justify its cooked numbers on what the stimulus package has and hasn’t done, alleging 1 million jobs saved, it is not focusing on creating jobs; instead the focus is on spending $1 trillion on health care reform, the impact of which will loose further jobs.Health care reform ...
  3 weeks ago

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

  
  EMR and HIPAA — Authority: 128
  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 ...
  3 weeks ago

• EMR Security Problem

  
  EMR and HIPAA — Authority: 128
  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 ...
  3 weeks ago

• New Medical Transcription Service Consortium for Sharing Patient Data

  
  EMR and HIPAA — Authority: 128
  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 ...
  4 weeks ago

• Comparison of CCR and CCD

  
  EMR and HIPAA — Authority: 128
  In response to my previous post about CCR and CCD , I’ve learned a whole bunch about the two different standards for healthcare data exchange. Although, I must admit that it’s all a bit messy right now. Since I know that many of you don’t read all the comments on the site, nor do you get to read the emails I ...
  4 weeks ago

• CCD vs. CCR and Part of MU

  
  EMR and HIPAA — Authority: 128
  I’ve been a fan of the concept of CCR since it first started many years ago . However, I’ll be honest that I haven’t followed the progression of CCR much since then. I know that Google Health was using a modified version of CCR. I also know a number of EMR vendors that have integrated CCR with their EMR. ...
  5 weeks ago

• ONC Blog – Federal Advisory Committee – Judy Sparrow

  
  EMR and HIPAA — Authority: 128
  All I can say is that it’s very cool that ONC now has a blog. This is probably right up there with when I found past HHS secretary Mike Leavitt’s blog . Ok, yes I am a complete blog nerd. At least I’m able to admit it up front. Basically, Judy Sparrow has just done an introduction post where she talks about ...
  5 weeks ago

• CCHIT EHR Certification Enters EMR Usability World

  
  EMR and HIPAA — Authority: 128
  I’ve been sitting on this post for a while. I figured it was finally time that we talked an interesting development in the CCHIT EHR certification: EMR usability testing. They first presented some of the details of this testing during the CCHIT training meeting. However, they also partnered with User Centric to ...
  5 weeks ago

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