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The Savvy IT Guide to ARRA and EHR - How to Build the Infrastructure for Your Initiatives

EMC has the solutions that enable the organization to create a solid information infrastructure for the EHR - one that stores, protects, manages, and shares patient information. These solutions provide high performance, highly scalable, and highly available storage, security, and integrated tools to virtualize and automate IT management, governance, and...

Tags: Information Technology, Infrastructure Inc., EMC Corp., EHR, Storage, Hardware

Webcasts 2009-06-16

HIPAA remains the EMR deterrent

HIPAA remains the EMR deterrentFirst off.. its no longer called EMR.. its called EHR.. and oh the holesHIPAA is not the reason EHR is not being adopted quicker. Its money. Many of the software EHRs already have built in encryption for communication(no external devices needed!) and secondly HIPAA,...

Tags: Regulatory compliance, Regulations, Insurance, HIPAA, goverment, eHR, EMR

Discussion threads 2009-05-18

HealthIT benefits tied to changing business models

HealthIT benefits tied to changing business modelsDoctors really have no excuse. Some just lazy learners.We just changed to an EHR system... we had one site that just seems incapable of coping and another site that ran with it and is back to normal patient load.Should we wipe the staff...

Tags: HealthIT benefit, patient, eHR

Discussion threads 2009-03-10

Microsoft endorses standards for health IT

Microsoft endorses standards for health ITJust watch out for Health Standard Plus? NTNTMS is not going to make this happen. They can try and fail like many others.We have a group around here called pcan that has been trying to create a system of interoperable EHR systems that share...

Tags: Quality, Microsoft Windows NT, health-IT, eHR, standards, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-01-27

Fixing the blame on the EHR mess

Fixing the blame on the EHR messLobbyistsYou hit the nail on the head. There are more than 200 EHRs, each lobbying for a place in the sun.WorldVistA, based on the largest EHR (the Veterans Administration's VistA), is free, open source, and GPL-licensed (open source is not enough -- we need...

Tags: HEALTHCARE, eHR

Discussion threads 2009-01-06

Who will mandate electronic health records?

Who will mandate electronic health records?MD's should hesitate to implement EHRsAs an investment banker covering health IT and a former health IT executive, the MD's have it right and everyone else has it wrong. EHRs have typically been found to add an hour a day to the physician's workload,...

Tags: HEALTHCARE, Insurance, Benefits, hospital, eHR, insurance company, patient, physician, electronic health record, e-health

Discussion threads 2007-12-10

Specialty formats burn EMR market

Specialty formats burn EMR marketDon't worry... the solution is in the works. New equipment won't put out human-readable results; it will only be accessible via EMR transfers. Thus, paper won't work any more.As for the Tower of Babel effect, it's headed the same way office documents are: Microsoft's...

Tags: Quality, EHR Project Failure, EMR, CCHIT

Discussion threads 2007-11-06

PrivacyPlace fisks HealthVault

PrivacyPlace fisks HealthVaultEHR set back has nothing to do with HealthVaultEHR is set back for years for so many reasons which have nothing to do with the HealthVault.EHR is a noble concept but in application very technically difficult to achieve and at best fragile.Top that off with everything Healthcare-wise being...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, HealthVault, eHR

Discussion threads 2007-10-09

A peek inside Microsoft's HealthVault

A peek inside Microsoft's HealthVaultDig a Little DeeperForget the fact that Microsoft has trust & security issues, a brief review of the SDK Software Developers Kit(http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/healthvault/bb802509.aspx)shows that even if developers decide to integrate with the EHR in the "vault" in order to "Go Live" you must partner with Microsoft by...

Tags: SECURITY, eHR, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft HealthVault

Discussion threads 2007-10-04

Who will trust Microsoft HealthVault?

Who will trust Microsoft HealthVault?Distrust from PFIRLauren Weinstein of People For Internet Responsibility has published his negative take on Microsoft HealthVault and its implicatoins at http://lauren.vortex.com/archive/000306.html[b] Not So Open Standard [/b]Forget the fact that Microsoft has trust & security issues, a brief review of the SDK (http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/healthvault/bb802509.aspx)shows that even if...

Tags: Corporate law, SECURITY, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft HealthVault, U.S. Department of Justice, eHR

Discussion threads 2007-10-04

Today's Debate: Tipping point for electronic medical records?

Today's Debate: Tipping point for electronic medical records?You *WILL* be assimilated[i]So, is resistance now futile?[/i]Well, in the UK next door it looks like everyone, transient visitors included, will have to have DNA in the Home Office's database.Expect the third round of the PATRIOT Act to include this if it isn't...

Tags: E-health, HEALTHCARE, Vertical industries, Benefits, Strategy, Tipping Point, eHR, electronic health record

Discussion threads 2007-09-07

Today's Debate: HIPAA, end it or mend it?

Today's Debate: HIPAA, end it or mend it?Moot PointWhat happened to my rights?I don't think Hillary is the difference hereI think any President is going to mandate standards of care, including standards of record-keeping, which are interoperable and electronic.There are two sides in every business transaction, and one is the...

Tags: Regulatory compliance, Regulations, E-health, HIPAA, eHR

Discussion threads 2007-08-21

Major obstacle to electronic health records: 55.5% name funding

Associated Press discusses the reasons for electronic health records adoption. 61.3% of institutions consider input from internal departments, while 37.2% go out and ask for input from other practitioners and institutions and 25.8% listen to the patients' opinions. As far as barriers to EHR adoption, 55.5% named lack of funding,...

Tags: eHR

Blog posts 2005-05-23

Additional Resources

Microsoft wins seat at health IT table

The market Amalga is entering, in other words, is a hothouse of EHR adoption, and integrating with its neighbors should give Microsoft the knowledge it needs to interoperate with all types of hospital IT systems. by Dana Blankenhorn

Tags: Information Technology, Health Care, Microsoft Corp., Strategy, Healthcare, Management, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2009-10-19

HP TouchSmart tx2 laptop brings upgraded multitouch to tablet PC; $799

Nice price point NT.pretty!.. have to test out one of these for our EHR systemIf its good enough, might replace the fujitsu's that cost a small fortune each.why oh why :(Why did you keep the same processor hp, why? :(I was going to buy one in august for school but...

Tags: Tablets, Notebooks, Games, laptop computer, tablet, Hewlett-Packard Co., HP TouchSmart TX2, HP TouchSmart, Microsoft Windows 7, Apple Macintosh, game, performance, tablet PC, processor, PC

Discussion threads 2009-10-13

Microsoft's Courier tablet: A Franklin Covey planner on steroids?

I'd buy one instantlyThe Courier embodies everything I've wanted in a portable device for well over five years now - essentially an electronic pad/binder that works very similar to the physical counterpart. Notebooks are too cludgy (being clam-shells) and tablet PCs far too heavy (and still basically clam-shells), not...

Tags: Tablets, Notebooks, tablet, Microsoft Corp., Franklin Covey

Discussion threads 2009-09-29

Perot deal shows slimming margins for health IT

I saw this deal and said.. huh? WHY?To me the deal doesnt make sense. Why buy into healthcare when healthcare is already buying into you? The only thing dell didnt offer was softwware, but with the goverment leaning hard on standardization of care and services as well...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, health care

Discussion threads 2009-09-22

OpenEMR Server 3.1 (Windows)

The clinical benefits of computerized medical records are clear; however, the costs of current proprietary systems are large. These high cost systems inhibit many small practices from transitioning to computerized medical records. This obstacle can easily be circumvented with OpenEMR. OpenEMR is a free medical practice management, electronic medical records,...

Tags: Medical Billing, Electronic Health Record, Server, Microsoft Windows, Medical Record, EHR Live, OpenEMR Server 3.1, EDI, E-health, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software

Software downloads 2009-08-25

Open source can save your life

Quick, if your life depended on it, which health care information system would you rather your hospital used: A proprietary system developed by software engineers based on marketing input, bug reports and customer requests? An open source system developed by thousands of health care practitioners including...

Tags: Hospital, Open Source, Health Care, VA, Healthcare, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Human Resources, Robin Harris

Blog posts 2009-08-23

Joe Biden and the dawn of the MediNet

what a waste, just model VA Hospitalsthey have one of the most efficient medical records on the planet. HIEThese funds are not to develop electronic medical records (your right, the VA's VISTA system is very good - and I am a strong advocate of open source solutions) This is...

Tags: Government, Insurance, Vertical industries, MediNet, Joe Biden, dawn, medical record, Hie

Discussion threads 2009-08-21