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Doctor iPhone, I presume?: The ClearHealth guys were so anxious to brag on their iPhone customer story they didn't even wait on the press release. Instead customer happiness guru David Uhlman draggedÂ Shawn Bellina, CTO of Clearview Cancer Institute in Huntsville, Alabama, hiccups and all, to a quick phone conference this afternoon....; Tags: Apple iPhone, Physician, Electronic Health Record, E-health, Healthcare, Dana Blankenhorn; Blog posts 2008-04-29
VistA dieing of starvation and neglect: The Veterans Administration VA is starving its world-classÂ VistA medical records software to death. At a time when organizations around the world are switching from proprietary to open source models of support, an agency which created such a model from scratch is going the other way. ...; Tags: Electronic Health Record, Microsoft Windows Vista, U.S. Department Of Defense, Veterans Administration, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), E-health, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Healthcare, Dana Blankenhorn; Blog posts 2008-04-23
A HIX tax moves ahead in Vermont: The Vermont House voted 119-19 last night to keep a tax on medical claims aimed at paying for computing systems in doctors' offices and an online network to trade the records. The fee would raise $33 million over the next 10 years and would allow all doctors...; Tags: Fee, Electronic Health Record, Doctor, E-health, Healthcare, Taxes, Financial Planning, Finance, Dana Blankenhorn; Blog posts 2008-04-03
Hospital Health System Manages Growing Fleet of Laptops: As a leading healthcare provider with a state-of-the-art electronic health record system, Allina Hospitals & Clinics required a way to protect its rapidly growing laptop population from computer theft and potential data breach. Find out how the hospital system deployed Computrace asset tracking to monitor 2,700 laptops...; Tags: Asset, Hospital, Absolute Software, Electronic Health Record, Health Care, Laptop Computer, E-health, Asset Management, Notebooks, Healthcare, Operational Planning, Business Operations, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets; Case studies 2008-03-01
What Google doesn't get: Health care computing isn't about search. The winner of the electronic medical record EMR wars won't be the vendor who does the least evil. (Picture from an August story in Google Blogoscoped.) This is about the transformation and display of data. The stuff is...; Tags: Google Inc., Risk, Hospital, Electronic Health Record, E-health, Healthcare, Dana Blankenhorn; Blog posts 2008-02-22

Is SaaS the solution for electronic medical records?: The powers which be here at ZDNet sent me an overwrought press release recently from Practice Fusion. That's a small San Francisco company which is selling electronic medical records EMRs as a service. (The name sounds like a North Korean nuclear test, and this is what Google...; Tags: Software-as-a-service, Electronic Health Record, E-health, Software As A Service (SaaS), Healthcare, Emerging Technologies, Dana Blankenhorn; Blog posts 2008-02-19
Misys and open source medicine: Today was an important day for open source in medicine, as MisysÂ Healthcare SystemsÂ released the code of its Misys Connect as open source. The importance goes beyond a single vendor's fate. That's because Misys Connect is essentially middleware, code for connecting applications together. Misys is...; Tags: Importance, Misys, Electronic Health Record, E-health, Healthcare, Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn; Blog posts 2008-02-08
ClinicGate Basic (exe): ClinicGate is a Multi-User Medical Office Billing Software, Electronic Medical Record Software and FREE Medical Software for Small-Large Clinic that contain all the Billing, Clinical, and operational elements for a successful running Medical Practice. ClinicGate offers an easy to use Windows interface For Single and Multiple Practice to Manage Electronic...; Tags: Electronic Health Record, ClinicGate, E-health, Healthcare; Software downloads 2008-01-17
What the electronic medical record movement needs: What the electronic medical record movement needsBut Consensus REQUIRES Leadership!Dana:As usual, you're absolutely right about consensus among vendors and standards would go a long way toward making ubiquitous electronic medical records a reality. But such consensus itself requires leadership. Such leadership must be able to persuade stakeholders to resist sometimes...; Tags: E-health, HEALTHCARE, electronic health record, leadership, electronic medical record movement, MedicAlert, patient; Discussion threads 2008-01-15
What the electronic medical record movement needs: The march toward automating health records goes on. (Image of stick memory from MedicAlert.) New York has set a goal of getting its basic records online by the end of this year. That's patient charts, referrals, and prescription data. Medical groups are already touting...; Tags: Patient, Electronic Health Record, Health Care, Standards, Quality, E-health, Leadership, Healthcare, Business Operations, Management, Dana Blankenhorn; Blog posts 2008-01-15
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
New Jersey to mandate electronic health records: New Jersey will become the first state to mandateÂ a move toward electronic health records under a bill now before Gov. Jon Corzine. A. 4044Â establishes a 19-member commission to oversee the transition from paper. The commission's job will be to promote the use of national...; Tags: Commission, New Jersey, Electronic Health Record, Plan, Standards, Governor, E-health, Quality, Sales Force Management, Healthcare, Business Operations, Sales, Dana Blankenhorn; Blog posts 2008-01-08
ClinicGate Advanced (exe): ClinicGate is a Network and Multi-User Medical Billing Software and Medical Office Software For Small or Large Medical Office . For Single and Multiple Practice to Manage Electronic Medical Record, Prescriptions Writer, Appointment Scheduling, Insurance Billing Claims, Invoicing, Expenses, Receivable, Tax and Pharmacy Purchase Order with Drug Dispense all integrated...; Tags: Electronic Health Record, ClinicGate, E-health, Taxes, Insurance, Healthcare, Free Trade, Financial Planning, Finance, Business Operations, Corporate Insurance; Software downloads 2007-12-26
Can HiTrust bring electronic health records forward?: Can HiTrust bring electronic health records forward?Notice who else isn't there[i]Notice who’s not there.[/i]Or, of course, you and me. The deer don't get a vote when the wolves divvy up hunting territory.I don't know about that...It would be important to have doctors represented, rather than just hospitals. This seems...; Tags: HIPAA, Regulatory compliance, HEALTHCARE, Regulations, HiTrust, e-health, electronic health record; Discussion threads 2007-12-19
Can HiTrust bring electronic health records forward?: HiTrust the Health Information Trust Alliance has launched with great fanfare. Its mission is to "a common security framework for use by all parties that create, access, store or exchange personal health information." Sounds promising. Its common security framework PDFÂ would establish...; Tags: Security, Electronic Health Record, Health Care, Vertical Industries, Healthcare, Benefits, E-health, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Dana Blankenhorn; Blog posts 2007-12-19
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
Who will mandate electronic health records?: There's a race on to mandate electronic health records. (Picture from Medical Informatics Insider.) Insurers, politicians and hospitals are all piling on the pressure to make the investment. An AMA story this week describes the pressure. Some doctors are retiring rather than automate. In...; Tags: Hospital, Electronic Health Record, Insurance Company, Automation, AMA, E-health, Healthcare, Insurance, Business Operations, Corporate Insurance, Dana Blankenhorn; Blog posts 2007-12-10
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
The real argument against electronic health records: Doctors lie. Then they lie about it. That's the conclusion you can draw from Reuters' report that half of all U.S. doctors fail to report incompetence.Â (Picture of Evil Dr. Zork from Legaljuice.) Now that I've gotten your attention and perhaps made you angry let...; Tags: Electronic Health Record, Mistake, E-health, Internet, Healthcare, Dana Blankenhorn; Blog posts 2007-12-04