July 2009 - EMR and HIPAA

Sometimes I feel like it’s my mission to combat the myths associated with EMR certification, selection and implementation. Ok, so maybe it’s mostly the EHR certification, but selection and implementation are closely tied to EMR certification...

I turned on the radio on Monday and they were talking about Healthcare again. Universal coverage, the August recess, the “blue dog” democrats. I keep thinking about how EMRs fit into all of this. Obama thinks that EMRs are going to make care better, more...

One of the things that has bothered me most about the $36.3 billion which is estimated to be spent by the government in EMR stimulus money is the affect it’s had on the decision to implement an EMR. The doctors looking at the stimulus money remind...

I’m always sad when I come across an EMR implementation that doesn’t have an interface between their EMR and their lab. I can appreciate someone having just implemented an EMR not having a lab interface. However, it should be one of the first...

This is a SHOUT OUT to all doctors who use EMRs. Which EMRs do you use and how do you like them. Do you love them or hate them? Are you luke warm in your like or dislike? Tell us which EMR you have and how you feel about it. [...] Related posts: When...

HISTalk nailed it on the head in this post when they said: “Some of the most frustrated employees I’ve seen were clinical people who went to work for vendors — they had always thought the problem was lack of company knowledge, not lack of company...

Now that the HIT Policy committee has marginalized CCHIT EHR certification and proposed that HHS define the EHR certification criteria, it only seems reasonable to ask whether HHS will do a much better job than CCHIT did at defining “certified EHR...

President Barack Obama is defending his relentless campaign for a health care bill before Congress’s August recess, saying “the default in Washington is inaction and inertia.” Mr. Obama, there is a good reason for inertia. It protects...