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• Inside iRobot: A Search for Medical Droids

  
  Xconomy — Authority: 709
  Robotics , Healthcare IT , Life Sciences Ryan McBride wrote: Robots have already found limited work in healthcare by assisting surgeons with operations and physical therapists with rehabilitating patients, among other jobs. So why can’t robots keep an eye on seniors and give them their medications? ...
  17 hours ago

• Social Networking: Understand the Risks

  
  Cataract Outsourcing — Authority: 142
  There are many effective and legitimate uses for the Internet. Two of the primary ones are its ability to aggregate and deliver a massive amount of content, and to connect millions of users together regardless of their location or their technology platform. One of the recent trends that takes advantage of these ...
  3 days ago

• Electronic medical record return on investment

  
  Cataract Outsourcing — Authority: 142
  Large and small medical practices can see a return on their investment for an EMR system as soon as one to one-and-a-half years—provided they have a successful preparation and selection process and know how they intend to use the EMR, experts say. “The most significant aspect is preparation and management ...
  3 days 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 ...
  3 days ago

• Zoll Medical Pumps Out iPhone App for CPR Training

  
  Xconomy — Authority: 709
  iphone , Software , Healthcare IT Ryan McBride wrote: Here’s an iPhone application that could actually help people save lives. Zoll Medical, a maker of cardiac defibrillators and other products for the critical care market, says this morning that it has released a CPR training app for the iPhone and ...
  3 days ago

• Ironwood Nabs $75M in Deal With Japanese Firm, Gloucester Drug Gets FDA Approval, Alnylam Branches Into Biomanufacturing Tech, & More Boston-Area Life Sciences News

  
  Xconomy — Authority: 709
  Roundup , Life Sciences , FDA Rebecca Zacks wrote: Several of New England’s life sciences firms had good news to report this week. —Ryan gave a run-down of the key insights to emerge from our Xconomy Forum on pharma innovation . Sirtris CEO Christoph Westphal, for example, offered insight into one of ...
  3 days 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 ...
  4 days ago

• Dossia Off to Slow Start with Personal Electronic Health Records

  
  Xconomy — Authority: 709
  Health IT , personal health records , Software Ryan McBride wrote: Dossia is nearly three years from launching to provide electronic personal health records for major U.S. employers. And though the vision to provide employees of self-insured companies with a secure and portable electronic record of ...
  4 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 ...
  5 days ago

• Hamilton Thorne Raises $2.2M

  
  Xconomy — Authority: 709
  deals , Healthcare IT , Life Sciences Wade Roush wrote: Beverly, MA-based Hamilton Thorne , which makes laser equipment used in stem-cell research labs and fertility clinics, has raised $2.2 million in a private stock placement and debt conversion deal, according to an announcement released last week. A ...
  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

• Max Hall of SRA: Healthcare IT goes beyond electronic medical records

  
  ExecutiveBiz Blog — Authority: 129
  When it comes to continuity at any one company, Max Hall’s got it. For the past 17 years, Hall has served SRA in a variety of functions. From his early days as a network engineer, Hall has gone on to serve the Fairfax, Va.-based provider of expert knowledge, technical tools and solutions, in areas such as ...
  1 week ago

• Academic Freedom and ED EHRs Down Under: An Update

  
  Health Care Renewal — Authority: 530
  At the post " Academic Freedom Curtailed? " I wrote: The essay on Emergency Department 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, that I ...
  1 week ago

• Comparison of CCR and CCD

  
  EMR and HIPAA — Authority: 423
  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 ...
  1 week ago

• Is Someone at Jefferson Regional Medical Center Lying About EHR Safety?

  
  Health Care Renewal — Authority: 530
  This curious story appeared about apparent clinician health IT safety concerns at Jefferson Regional Medical Center near Pittsburgh: Switch to electronic records alarms Jefferson Regional physicians By Walter F. Roche Jr. PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE-REVIEW Friday, October 30, 2009 Jefferson Regional Medical Centers ...
  1 week ago

• The Top Five Issues Facing Government Contractors

  
  ExecutiveBiz Blog — Authority: 129
  When CEOs around the beltway can’t sleep at night, chances are these issues are keeping them up: in-sourcing, organizational conflicts of interest (OCI), the stimulus package, healthcare, and cybersecurity.  Here’s our take on these hot-button issues: In-Sourcing In-sourcing has worried CEOs around the ...
  1 week ago

• Market Trends Series #3: Shift from Dept to Enterprise Focus

  
  Medical Connectivity — Authority: 107
  From what I have observed over many years, Hospitals have historically approached medical device connectivity projects as a tactical issue to be dealt with. Up until relatively recently, technology alone could be used to solve the connectivity issue (i.e. getting data from point A to point B) with little to no ...
  1 week ago

• Designing the Office Computer Network

  
  Medical Practice Trends.com — Authority: 99
  Regardless of whether or not you use an EMR system, you may already have computerized billing and scheduling. And if you have multiple computers at your practice, most likely these computers operate on some sort of network. Even if you are not the ‘technical’ person in your practice, you should understand the ...
  1 week ago

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