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Veriscrip built on government regulation

One fact that marks healthcare IT is how you can build a profitable business just based on the need to enforce government regulations.VirtualHealth Technologies of Lexington, Kentucky, for instance, is building itself on HIPAA, through a unit called Veriscrip.HIPAA requires secure tracking of medical information, and controls who can access...

Tags: state government, Physician Information, Medical Records, Medical Office IT, Medical IT, General

Blog posts 2007-08-03

What scares doctors about technology

I think I know what most frightens physicians about technology.It's the fear of becoming part of a roll-up, like Esse Health, profiled recently by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. On the surface Esse is simply a collection of doctors' offices. But when new CEO Mike Castellano talks about it, he's describing something...

Tags: Physician Information, Payment Processing, Medical Records, Medical Office IT, Medical Office Equipment, Medical IT, General

Blog posts 2007-08-02

Getting paid is key to medical success

Perhaps no area of medicine will change as much in the next five years as payment processing, according to a new McKinsey report. (Illustration from the cover of the report.)Right now a key difference between a practice's success or failure is having an assistant who can work the system and get...

Tags: Payment Processing, Networking, Medical Office IT, IT Management, General

Blog posts 2007-08-02

Additional Resources

Why electronic health records have far to go

Look at Kaiser's ExperienceI agree. It took Kaiser a tightly integrated delivery system 10 years and $4 billion to get to their current state with health IT. It is unlikely to expect other delivery systems to do much better.I can tell you why it is taking so long.The...

Tags: Workforce management, training and certification, Tools & Techniques, HEALTHCARE, electronic health record, e-health, Learning, training

Discussion threads 2009-11-18

I'm in a nanny state state of mind

Business can help ...if employees who smoke during the workday are not allowed "smoking breaks" to do so. Alternatively, if non-smoking employees demanded equal breaks with smokers, business might get the drift.Some businesses do helpThere are businesses that offer smoking cessation programs on their own dime, knowing the money they'll...

Tags: Taxes, Financial Planning, Free trade, Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, insurance, TFB, agony, smoker, tax

Discussion threads 2009-11-13

EzMedPro 1.4.9 (Mac)

DSOFT SYSTEMS has developed a state of art and affordable medical software, EzMedPro. EzMedPro is Medical Practice Management Software. It integrate medical office scheduling, medical billing, medical coding, office management, Electronic Medical Records, HCFA printing

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Medical Practice Management, DSOFT SYSTEMS, EzMedPro 1.4.9, E-health, Healthcare, Document Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting

Software downloads 2009-11-10

18 truths: The long fail of complexity

Agree *****One of the best distillations of what 'risk' actually is, and why complexity exponentially increases it, I have read.But more to the point takes a realistic, rather than optimistic or pessimistic, view of how to asses it. And correctly acknowledges the 'human' factors involved in both cause, and...

Tags: Strategy, HEALTHCARE, information technology

Discussion threads 2009-11-06

Medical Office One 3.7.1 (Windows)

EMR - Appointment Scheduling - Medical Billing Software for Windows Vista and XP. Medical Office One is a HIPAA - NPI Compliant and feature-rich application for medical office - practice administration. Fast and easy-to-use, it allows creation of the new 08/05 version of the CMS 1500 form, full customization, excellent...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Content Management System, Biosoftworld, Content Management, Enterprise Software, Microsoft Office, Software, Office Suites

Software downloads 2009-11-02

The chief value of open source

Custom code solutions...It's great you can see the code, but for companies I disagree that is a "value".What SMB has the resources to comb through thousands of lines of code to assure reliability and security? Even if they do manage to find a bug, are they going to fork...

Tags: open source, software

Discussion threads 2009-10-26

EvriChart: A Linux Success Story

Tony Maro, CIO of EvriChart, a hospital records management and archiving business, successfully migrated his company's Windows-based line of business document management extranet application and his employees' 40-odd Windows-based desktops to a 100 percent Linux-based server and desktop infrastructure. Jason Perlow interviews Tony Maro, CIO...

Tags: Desktop, Hospital, Imaging, Health Care, Server, Computer, Linux, Microsoft Windows, Document Management, Operating Systems, UNIX, Open Source, Software, Enterprise Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2009-10-20

The T-Mobile-Microsoft Sidekick data disaster: Poor IT management going mainstream

Always have local copies of your dataThe above is why it is a bad idea to put your fate in someone else's hands when you have a choice. By default, keep your data processing and data stores local, and then use cloud services when they suit you. All these kiddies...

Tags: Federal government, Advertising & Promotion, Recruitment & Selection, agency, FDA, job

Discussion threads 2009-10-11

How the health IT gold rush game will be played

It's an interesting conceptOn one side you have the regionals and on the other you have new ideas in data access.I need more than average medical data available to me and use my iPhone for the primary portable storage. (A wallet card is the portable "backup")With this very cheap...

Tags: Smart phones, game, Other Data, Health IT, Apple iPhone

Discussion threads 2009-09-29

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

Intuit service shows how little patients count

OpportunityIf I wanted to make a lot of money spamming people, I'd just send out phony doctor bills.Nobody has any idea how many bills they are supposed to be getting, or how much they are supposed to be. One more for "lab fees" would probably get paid by a...

Tags: Insurance, Intuit Inc., patient, vet

Discussion threads 2009-09-25

Companies to offer free foreign travel for their sick

Wow, a great way to force our overpaid doctors to compete. Doctors should have a comfortable life, but, they do not need to earn 100x what they do in other countries.and if there are complications?If a US citizen travels abroad for a procedure and returns home, who will treat any...

Tags: Financial Planning, insurance

Discussion threads 2009-09-17

Pediatric Nutrition Handbook (PedsNutr) (Mobile)

Pediatric Nutrition Handbookpowered by Skyscape Publisher: American Academy of Pediatrics Pediatric Nutrition Handbook provides the latest information about nutrient metabolism and nutrition to support normal development and health of infants and children who are well, those born with congenital anomalies or disorders of metabolism, and those with acute and chronic...

Tags: Nutrition, Mobile

Software downloads 2009-09-16

When HIPAA and Twitter collide: Can you blab away your privacy rights?

Absolutely notThe most the hospital should do is cite HIPAA and promise a private resolution. That is all they need to do in public. If they do resolve the problem to satisfaction, most people who are willing to complain about a health problem in public would acknowledge that in public....

Tags: Regulatory compliance, HEALTHCARE, Regulations, Twitter Inc., hospital, HIPAA, patient

Discussion threads 2009-09-15

Not your father's tech school

Recently, I've had the opportunity to visit our local vacational/technical school several times. When I was a kid, the voc tech school was only for dropouts, burnouts, and pregnant girls, with the occasional budding mechanic thrown in for good measure. This couldn't be further from the case now...

Tags: School, Clinical Trial, Tech School, Healthcare, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2009-09-09

The good news about WalMart

The magic of jiu jitsuYou praise what a company reviled by the left is doing. The right rises. Then you point to WalMart's support of true health reform, and pound them with it. How does this help the public option?I don't see it.So you are saying that because of some...

Tags: Government, Vertical industries, Benefits, Wal-Mart Stores Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-09-07

News to know: VMWare; White House; Google Books; Skype; Apple vs Android

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage. Larry Dignan: VMware to step up data center automation game Sam Diaz: White House not equipped to hold keys...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Google Inc., Richard Koman, White House, Andrew Nusca, Skype Technologies S.A., Apple Inc., VMware Inc., Microsoft Corp., Sam Diaz, Data Centers, Smart Phones, Digital Cameras, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology

Blog posts 2009-08-31