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- EHR
- Electronic Health Records Computerized medical records that bring patient care into the digital age and save time, money and lives. The push to adopt comprehensive electronic documentation between...
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- 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
- IT warning: Turbulence ahead
- IT warning: Turbulence aheadI think virtualization is going to have a much more major impact...than people think.We are getting ready to move over to a virtualized environment for our new EHR system. After a few months of running that, i am planning on moving as many running servers to...
- Tags: Strategy, Turbulence, information technology
- Discussion threads 2008-10-13
- Will Kolodner lead industry toward open source?
- Kolodner has a reputation of being independent of big vendors and friendly to open source. Open source advocates can be confident he will give their ideas a hearing. The standards for EHR look to be open. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Industry, Electronic Health Record, Robert Kolodner, AHIC Successor Board, E-health, Healthcare, Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-09-24
- Will the EMR movement become a political divide
- Will the EMR movement become a political divideFYI: Its now EHR, not EMR...the change is to include dental, pyschological and other healthcare services.Electronic Health Records.We are in the middle of deployment strategy planning. The cost of deploying equipment and personell to get this up and running is staggering. ...
- Tags: Vertical industries, E-health, HEALTHCARE, Practical Reality, EMR, EMR movement, political divide, divide, government
- Discussion threads 2008-08-22
- PatientOS (exe)
- Electronic medical record EHR or EMR and PMS for a physician or clinics. Designed to be expanded into a Healthcare Information System for a hospital (Laboratory, Pharmacy, Orders). Distributed clinical system written in pure Java. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.
- Tags: Pure Java, Patientos, E-health, Healthcare, Java, Programming Languages, Software Development, Software/Web Development
- Software downloads 2008-06-23
- Scottish Government Transforms Human Resources Through Shared Services and Best Practices
- Scottish Government wanted to enforce best-practice Human Resources HR processes for 8,000 core employees and 1,700 contractors and staff seconded from government-related agencies and other public bodies as part of the eHR transformation program and standardize processes while giving employees greater control over day-to-day HR issues and longer-term career development....
- Tags: Human Resources, Oracle Corp., Agency, Best Practice, Government
- Case studies 2008-06-01
- MedBASE HER (txt)
- MedBase EHR provides: Smart Progress Notes - Real-time Suggested E&M Coding Appointments Management Digital Patient Charts/Chart Room Prescription Writing and Medications Management Accessible Patient Charts, even outside the Program. The center piece of the system is the progress notes, patent pending, smart coding area shown in the screenshot. 95% of...
- Tags: Smart, MedBase, MedBase EHR
- Software downloads 2008-05-09
- Midland hospital proves open source savings
- Midland hospital proves open source savingsMS execs arrive via emergency entranceOne having a cardiac on the news, the other blabbering something about TCO.How big is that hospital?We are implimenting an EHR this year and between equipment and software licensing, i am at 1.5 million for pharmacy, dental, family, peds, ob...
- Tags: ROI/TCO, TCO, hospital, open source
- Discussion threads 2008-03-12
- Google Earth for the body
- This is the expression used by an IBM researcher to describe the software he developed for visualizing electronic health records eHRs in 3-D. In a long article, IEEE Spectrum describes the IBM's Anatomic and Symbolic Mapper Engine ASME, which maps the information in a patient's eHR to a 3-D image...
- Tags: Software, 3D, Google Inc., Patient, Electronic Health Record, Doctor, Google Earth, Image, IBM Corp., E-health, Healthcare, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-01-12
- New Jersey to mandate electronic health records
- New Jersey to mandate electronic health recordsAudit rightsOf course, there's nothing in the bill providing for patient rights to for instance know who has copies of their records or for any private right of action in case of abuse.Change...Mandated EHR has all the earmarks of good intentions but needs to...
- Tags: HEALTHCARE, e-health, electronic health record, patient, health care
- Discussion threads 2008-01-08
- Today's "duh" study is a honey
- Today's "duh" study is a honeyIs this ZDNet or Doctor Phil?What does this story have to do with technology?complain, complain, complainWhat you should really be complaining about is that the pharmaceutical companies push through their ineffective and often harmful patented drugs so they can reap huge profits at the expense...
- Tags: Dana
- Discussion threads 2007-12-04
- The real argument against electronic health records
- The real argument against electronic health recordsDo no harmWhen Doctor's make critical care decisions, they are influenced by a variety of things.HMOs influence how Patient treatment is rendered and indirectly outcomes through referral tracking.A Health Care Provider gains 'full exposure' for Malpractice. HMOs staffed by humans have 'limited liability'...
- Tags: HEALTHCARE, Benefits, Insurance, punitive damage, e-health, electronic health record
- Discussion threads 2007-12-04
- Bandwagon for electronic records rolls on
- The bandwagon on behalf of electronic health records EHRs or electronic medical records EMRs as a "silver bullet" solution to America's health care crisis rolls on, despite growing reports of problems. (Picture from Norman, Oklahoma school system.) House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is the latest to jump on,...
- Tags: Electronic Record, Electronic Health Record, Fact, Health Care, E-health, Healthcare, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2007-12-03
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