April 2009 - EMR and HIPAA

Pay For Performance, Patient Outcomes, and the Rock of Gilbraltar

Quickly, now — which is easier to support? I’ll give you a hint — most times, my little 5′0 personage would be choosing hoisting that rock on my shoulders. Honestly, though, I’ll say that famous answer in healthcare, that...

Published Thu, Apr 30 2009 10:36 PM by EMR and EHR

Welcome to EMR and EHR!

I would like to open by extending my gratitude to John Lynn for convincing me to blog about EMR’s and EHR’s. He is my partner in this endeavor, and I appreciate everything he’s done to get this wonderful blog up and running. If you want...

Published Thu, Apr 30 2009 10:35 PM by EMR and EHR

My EHR Consultant Article as a Podcast

Some of you might remember that I relatively recently wrote an article about types of EHR consultants for MDNG magazine. It was a fun article to write. Considering my word limitations, I had to limit it to just a very specific topic. However, I still...

Published Thu, Apr 30 2009 10:52 AM by EMR (EHR) and HIPAA

Innovator’s Prescription Book

A book title recently came across my twitter stream called: The Innovator’s Prescription: A Disruptive Solution for Health Care The title sounded familiar and when I went and learned more about the book, I realized it was from the same author of...

Published Wed, Apr 29 2009 12:48 PM by EMR (EHR) and HIPAA

Senator Calls for Open Source EMR

I love when senators come out and write bills requesting for the government to fund an open source EMR. Turns out the most recent request came from Senator John D. Rockefeller has proposed a new law which would establish federal grants to develop open...

Published Wed, Apr 29 2009 3:08 AM by EMR (EHR) and HIPAA

HHS HIT Website

Today I came across what someone called a new Health and Human Services (HHS) health information technology (HIT) website. Unfortunately, they didn’t get the same graphic designer and web developer that have been doing such a fine job with the various...

Published Tue, Apr 28 2009 2:50 AM by EMR (EHR) and HIPAA

ePrescribing Through Online AMA Platform

I was recently sent a news release about DrFirst offering their ePrescribing services to physicians through a new online American Medical Association (AMA) platform. Here’s a short description of the new AMA platform: DrFirst is the first company...

Published Mon, Apr 27 2009 2:52 PM by EMR (EHR) and HIPAA

Teaching Med Students About EMR

This week I have a chance to do a lecture about EMR to a bunch of med students at a local medical school. There are so many facets to EMR, that I’m really trying to figure out which EMR concepts would be most valuable to a med student. I’d...

Published Mon, Apr 27 2009 3:25 AM by EMR (EHR) and HIPAA

openEHR and Clinical Knowledge Manager

A reader recently commented about something called openEHR. Maybe I was a little swayed by anything that says open since open source has used the term open so much. The idea of an open EHR sounded really interesting to me. I’m still not sure I completely...

Published Sat, Apr 25 2009 12:48 AM by EMR (EHR) and HIPAA

CCHIT and Open Source HIMSS Meeting - Audio and Powerpoint Slides

I’ve been meaning to post about the CCHIT and open source meeting at HIMSS for a while now and just haven’t ever gotten around to it. I did post my twitter thoughts on the CCHIT/Foss meeting, but I think there’s plenty more that could...

Published Fri, Apr 24 2009 4:15 PM by EMR (EHR) and HIPAA

Fake HIT and EMR Twitter Accounts

Many people know that I’m quite fascinated by Twitter. I love it and I love connecting with people on Twitter. However, today I came across a clearly fake twitter account. At least to me it was easy to see it was fake. It was a twitter account supposedly...

Published Fri, Apr 24 2009 2:51 AM by EMR (EHR) and HIPAA

Still Far from Healthcare Interoperability

I think that anyone that is in this industry had to be struck by the story of ePatientDave pulling his medical history into Google Health (see my previous ePatientDave post). It’s not that we didn’t already know that it was a problem. I think...

Published Thu, Apr 23 2009 4:06 PM by EMR (EHR) and HIPAA

Public Self Certification of an EHR Software

Why doesn’t a non certified EHR take the CCHIT criteria and do their own honest certification of their product? I’m not talking about going through and making sure that they meet the CCHIT criteria. Certainly, that’s basically what would...

Published Thu, Apr 23 2009 10:14 AM by EMR (EHR) and HIPAA

Myth: EHR Stimulus Bill Requires Doctors to Use EHR and Be Interoperable

There are a bunch of myths being perpetuated right now around ARRA and the HITECH act. I’ve been on a number of conference calls and read a number of people perpetuating these myths. Some might call it poor communication and others might call it...

Published Wed, Apr 22 2009 5:55 PM by EMR (EHR) and HIPAA

Pass - Fail EHR Certification is Meaningless

The current pass fail EHR certification model just feels wrong. Everyone who submits to their tests passes. This gives doctors the impression that every EMR vendor that passes their certification has the same functions. Of course, we all know that this...

Published Wed, Apr 22 2009 9:41 AM by EMR (EHR) and HIPAA