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• EMR Selection Time, Mobile EMR, and Difficult EMR Selection

  
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  More Time Spent Selecting the Right EMR Vendor is a Prudent Investment ow.ly/kRPvC — Billy Cline (@RecruiterBillyC) May 20, 2013 A prudent investment is an understatement. The very best use of your time in an EMR implementation is in the selection process. Although, I’ve also seen some clinics go too far ...
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• EHR Backlash, ACO, and Center of Care – #HITsm Chat Highlights

  
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  Topic One: What’s your take on the emerging  #EHRBacklash ? A post-Meaningful Use fad, or a movement with actual potential? T1: Until we separate #data from #ehr & see EHR as viewer & not a container, #ehrbacklash will continue & #interop will be difficult #HITsm — CLOUDHealth™ ...
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• Clouded "Visionary" Leadership - Wake Forest Baptist Medical Centers EPIC "Business Cycle Disruptions"

  
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  A typical excuse for the multi-million dollar compensation now enjoyed by many leaders of health care organizations is these leaders supposed brilliance. For example, in 2011 we noted  that the total compensation of Dr John McConnell, the CEO of Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, a non-profit teaching hospital, ...
  2 weeks ago

• Healthcare IT From the Mouth of Babes

  
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  A little Fun Friday post to get you started for the weekend. This past week was Take Your Child to Work Day. This is always an interesting thing for me since I work from home. However, I usually try and head out to one of the local Las Vegas tech startup hangouts so my kids can see some other people I work with. ...
  2 weeks ago

• EHR Benefit – Eligibility for Pay-for-Performance

  
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  It’s time for the next installment in my series of posts looking at the long list of EHR benefits . Eligibility for Pay-for-Performance I think that this is a really scary topic for most doctors. It’s not that a doctor is afraid of being reimbursed for the way they perform. The problem with pay for ...
  2 weeks ago

• How Do You Improve the Quality of EHR Data for Healthcare Analytics?

  
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  A month or so ago I wrote a post comparing healthcare big data with skinny data . I was introduced to the concept of skinny data by Encore Health Resources at HIMSS. I absolutely love the idea of skinny data that provides meaningful results. I wish we could see more of it in healthcare. However, I was also ...
  2 weeks ago

• Brick Walls Are No Match For Regina Holliday’s Medical Advocacy

  
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  In my last post, I talked about the concept of slacktivism in the era of social media. Slacktivism is sort of a pseudo-activism , where participants takes part in gestures – like changing their Facebook profiles photos to that of a cause – that make them feel good, but are meaningless in making any real social ...
  2 weeks ago

• Big Data Analytics Salesmanship: A Free Public Service for the Data Management Vendors

  
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  By Dr. Jaan Sidorov First Posted at Disease Management Care Blog on 5/6/2013 While the Disease Management Care Blog continues to delight in the clever electronic health record humor of the Extormity web site, little did it know that the same over-promising jargon typical of the EHR hucksters would be adopted by ...
  2 weeks ago

• URMC Faces Third HIPAA Breach

  
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  The University of Rochester Medical Center has seen a third HIPAA breach , this one caused by the loss of an unencrypted USB drive by a physician, reports  Healthcare IT News .  The drive, which belonged to a resident, contained protected health information on 537 patients. Officials with URMC say they have ...
  2 weeks ago

• 2013 State Healthcare IT Connect Summit

  
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  Connecting the States’ To Transform and Modernize State Health IT Systems The 2013 State Healthcare IT Connect Summit is brought to you in partnership with the National Association of State CIOs (NASCIO). It will take place at the Four Seasons in Baltimore, MD from May 21-22. The summit will “bring together public ...
  2 weeks ago

• Virtual component enhances hospital’s intensive care unit

  
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  Imagine having a critical-care specialist at the bedside around the clock. That’s how some in healthcare are describing what Carolinas HealthCare System has accomplished. Carolinas HealthCare System opened a $12.3 million, virtual critical-care center. The 3,200-square-foot command center will allow for 24/7 remote ...
  2 weeks ago

• National Nurses Day Tribute

  
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  Today is National Nurses Day and this week is a celebration of all the amazing nurses in healthcare. I think nurses are the unsung heroes of healthcare. They do an extraordinary job and get very little recognition. When I think about EMR in general it impacts nurses as much or more than anyone in the clinic. Yet ...
  2 weeks ago

• Oracle, Digital Health Firm Team to Trial Ingestible Devices; Neil de Crescenzo Comments

  
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  Oracle has made a minority investment for an undisclosed value in a Redwood City, Calif-based digital health company developing medicines and medical devices intended to be ingestible and wearable on... Read more »
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• Q1 2013 Healthcare IT VC Funding Increased

  
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  Q1 2013 venture capital investments in healthcare IT were close to $500 million, compared with $1.2 billion for 2012. Raj Prabhu, CEO of Mercom Capital, who published the funding report, says "Everybodys excited about this sector. Its one of the few areas thats hot, and everyone understands it has great potential. ...
  2 weeks ago

• AMA says EHRs create appalling Catch-22 for docs - And just how many experts does it take to screw in a light bulb, anyway?

  
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  (NOTE:  this post, being about minor matters like death and financial mayhem, is particularly and unusually [even for me] biting and lacking in euphemisms and political correctness.  If you are easily offended and want the latter, and/or believe we all need to be nice about banal issues like patient injury and ...
  2 weeks ago

• Financial woes at Maine Medical Center: Reading this blog might have saved them millions of dollars, and prevented massive "cost saving initiatives"

  
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  In this article, the euphemistic and almost endearing term "hiccup" is used instead of the more traditional " glitch " to describe obvious major information technology malfunctions.  It is likely the knowledge at this blog and at my health IT dysfunction teaching site could have helped prevent most of these ...
  2 weeks ago

• EHRMagic, EHR Certification, and the Great EHR Switch — #HITsm Chat Highlights

  
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  Topic One: What lessons can be learned from the ONC’s decision to revoke  #EHR  Incentive Program certification of EHRMagic?  #HealthIT T1 Providers MUST do their due diligence when it comes to EMRs! Vet vendors with specific criteria to ensure stability/credibility. #HITsm — Jennifer Dennard ...
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• Repost: Health IT Ten Commandments (1970) v. Health IT Truisms (2012)

  
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  I believe this Oct. 2012 post bears repeating, especially in view of the recent ECRI Deep Dive study of health IT risk (36 hospitals/9 weeks/volunteer reporting/171 health IT-related problems/8 incidents of harm/3 possible deaths): In 1970, health IT pioneer Dr. Octo Barnett at Harvard/MGH wrote his " Health IT ...
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• Government Incentives Push Healthcare IT Investment Funding Up 350% – the Gold Rush is On

  
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  According to Mercom Capital Group, the number of health IT-related venture capital funding deals from Q1 2012 to Q1 2013 is up 350%, from 30 health IT-related venture capital funding deals to 104 deals. In fact, most of that growth happened only this year with Q4 2012 reporting 51 health IT-related venture ...
  3 weeks ago

• Dual Coding for ICD-10 Prep: Worth the Work?

  
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  The following is a guest post by Karen M. Karban, Director of Coding Integrity at H.I.M. ON CALL. At the recent AHIMA ICD-10 and CAC Summit , virtually every speaker discussed the need to begin dual coding prior to the October 1, 2014 implementation of ICD-10. Dual coding is the clinical process of coding and ...
  3 weeks ago

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