September 2009 - EMR and HIPAA

More Comments from Marc Probst’s Talk on EMR

If you’ve had enough of my posts from a talk Marc Probst gave, then you’ll be glad to know this is the last one. There’s no hiding my respect for Marc and hearing him in person did nothing but elevate that respect for him. Some of the...

Published Wed, Sep 30 2009 11:23 AM by EMR and HIPAA

Secretary Sebelius Releases $27.8 Million in ARRA Funds for HIT

HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius today announced awards totaling $27.8 million to health center-controlled networks and large multi-site health centers to implement electronic health records (EHR) and other health information technology (HIT) innovations...

Published Wed, Sep 30 2009 11:03 AM by EMR and EHR

More Meaningful EHR Use To Be Simplified

On my twitter stream I was getting a number of skeptics around my previous post about meaningful use and EHR certification being simplified by CMS. They seemed a bit surprised that CMS would simplify meaningful EHR use. Let me add a little more content...

Published Tue, Sep 29 2009 11:52 AM by EMR and HIPAA

Meaningful Use and Therefore HHS EHR Certification Criteria Will Dillute

In my ongoing series of posts from Marc Probst’s visit to Las Vegas (you can see my first post here), these next comments by Marc were really interesting. Marc said, “The guesses are good that CMS will dilute meaningful use.” I also...

Published Mon, Sep 28 2009 12:05 PM by EMR and HIPAA

EMR Stimulus Money Makes Rich Richer

I had the privilege to hear Marc Probst speak on Friday and he was everything I hoped he’d be. I’ll be writing a number of posts from things I heard from Marc Probst over the next couple days, but I wanted to start with one thing Marc Probst...

Published Sat, Sep 26 2009 9:13 PM by EMR and HIPAA

EMR Data Archiving

In my previous post I talked about a few of the options related to shredding or archiving your paper charts after you’ve implemented an EMR and the paper charts aren’t being accessed. Now let’s take a look at what’s just begun...

Published Fri, Sep 25 2009 1:00 PM by EMR and HIPAA

Paper Chart Disposal After Implementing an EMR

I’d be planning on posting about this for a while and someone brought it up in the comments of one of my other posts. So I figure it must be time to talk about what to do with all those old paper charts. I’m not going to go into the specific...

Published Thu, Sep 24 2009 1:00 PM by EMR and HIPAA

To Wait or Not to Wait on Selecting and Implementing an EMR…

John Halamka recently posted the following about whether doctors and practices should wait to purchase an EMR. Here’s his response: I’m often asked by clinicians and hospitals if they should wait to purchase an EHR because of the uncertainty...

Published Wed, Sep 23 2009 12:55 PM by EMR and HIPAA

Long Term Care Missing Out on EMR Stimulus Money

A short while back I posted about my interest in the long term care EMR market. From that post I’ve started a number of really interesting discussions. It’s been quite enlightening and fun for me to learn about the long term care market since...

Published Tue, Sep 22 2009 1:00 PM by EMR and HIPAA

EMR Vendor Advisor

This weekend I had a nice meeting with an EMR vendor. We had a nice discussion of the possibilities that are available right now in the EMR world. It was also interesting to consider the value that I could add to an EMR company as an advisor to that EMR...

Published Mon, Sep 21 2009 1:21 PM by EMR and HIPAA

How Many Will Actually Collect ARRA EMR Stimulus Money?

In my last post Michael Milne made the following comment that I think was worth discussing: I firmly believe that less than 5% of all doctors who do buy a “certified” EMR are going to collect. … For example, how many here, or even heard of someone...

Published Sat, Sep 19 2009 11:19 AM by EMR and HIPAA

EMR Updates in SaaS EMR World

When I was writing my last post about updating your EMR software, I knew that I had to also write a post talking about the update process for an SaaS (often called hosted) EMR solution. Basically, updating your SaaS EMR is a two edge sword. Hosted EMR...

Published Fri, Sep 18 2009 11:25 AM by EMR and HIPAA

EMR Updates

It seems like I’ve covered EMR updates quite a bit before. However, I keep hearing more examples that are very good illustrations of the challenges associated with software updates to an EMR. Today’s example has to do with a simple change...

Published Thu, Sep 17 2009 11:26 AM by EMR and HIPAA

Apple EMR

News came out this week about a Dell EMR, which is really just a branded version of eCW and possibly some other EMR companies. However, no doubt Dell’s ability to sell software is going to be a nice marketing tool for the EMR companies with which...

Published Wed, Sep 16 2009 6:56 PM by EMR and EHR

EMR, EHR and HIPAA Wiki

A while back I decided to take a weekend and create an EMR, EHR and HIPAA wiki to go alongside this website. I still think it’s a really good idea that still has yet to be full realized. That said, considering the relatively little amount of effort...

Published Wed, Sep 16 2009 11:11 AM by EMR and HIPAA