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

  
  Cataract Outsourcing — Authority: 143
  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, ...
  3 days ago

• Predicted progress of EMR adoption through 2013

  
  Cataract Outsourcing — Authority: 143
  The adoption of EMR systems will increase during the next three years, says Dennis Schmuland, MD, Microsoft’s national director of health and life sciences, U.S. health plan industry . Dr. Schmuland, however, sees the current focus on the adoption of EMRs and health information exchanges as only one step toward ...
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• Study Shows Little Benefit from EMR in Hospitals

  
  EMR and HIPAA — Authority: 127
  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 ...
  3 days ago

• Strong standards or wiggle room?

  
  Cataract Outsourcing — Authority: 143
  Former President George W. Bush urged doctors and hospitals to go digital on their own, with a few booster shots of federal help. Consequently, progress was slow. But the pace of change has been increasing since President Barack Obama has made health IT a priority and Congress put some real money on the table. Under ...
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• EMR Selection and Implementation Books

  
  EMR and HIPAA — Authority: 127
  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 ...
  4 days ago

• Haywood Talcove of LexisNexis on the Future of Government Contracting

  
  ExecutiveBiz Blog — Authority: 130
  ExecutiveBiz recently spoke with Haywood Talcove, CEO of LexisNexis Special Services Inc, about rapidly emerging opportunities in government contracting.  He told us how fighting waste, fraud, and abuse in healthcare, and how knowledge-based authentication can help secure sensitive data networks against ...
  5 days ago

• Bob McCord of 2020: Three tips for effective small business partnerships in healthcare IT

  
  ExecutiveBiz Blog — Authority: 130
  Bob McCord made a conscious decision over 20 years ago to focus his career at the intersection of health, IT and government. “I believed the health industry had underinvested in health information technology and the government would play an expanding role in this marketplace,” says McCord. He was right. Today, ...
  6 days ago

• Problems with ARRA EMR Stimulus Money

  
  EMR and HIPAA — Authority: 127
  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 ...
  6 days ago

• Inside iRobot: A Search for Medical Droids

  
  Xconomy — Authority: 712
  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? ...
  1 week ago

• Social Networking: Understand the Risks

  
  Cataract Outsourcing — Authority: 143
  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 ...
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• Electronic medical record return on investment

  
  Cataract Outsourcing — Authority: 143
  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 ...
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• Paper Chart to EMR Scanning List

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

• Zoll Medical Pumps Out iPhone App for CPR Training

  
  Xconomy — Authority: 712
  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 ...
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• 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: 712
  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 ...
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• Question and Answer with Lynn Scheps, Government Affairs VP for SRSsoft EMR

  
  EMR and HIPAA — Authority: 127
  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 ...
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• Dossia Off to Slow Start with Personal Electronic Health Records

  
  Xconomy — Authority: 712
  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 ...
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• EMR Security Problem

  
  EMR and HIPAA — Authority: 127
  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 ...
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• Hamilton Thorne Raises $2.2M

  
  Xconomy — Authority: 712
  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 ...
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• SourceMedical Offers EHR Compliance Guarantee For Surgery Centers

  
  Cataract Outsourcing — Authority: 143
  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 ...
  2 weeks ago

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