November 2009 - EMR and HIPAA

HIT Projects You Can Implement Today

Many people are sitting their on the proverbial fence waiting to see what’s going to happen with the HITECH act and meaningful use before they actually go and implement an EMR. Now, I’m not going to let those people off the hook from evaluating...

Published Mon, Nov 30 2009 12:17 PM by EMR and HIPAA

Real Participation in RHIO and HIE

Everyone seems to love talking about RHIO, HIE and all of the other various initiatives happening around sharing patient health information amongst doctors. This weekend, I want to open it up to you the readers to get an idea of what type of participation...

Published Sat, Nov 28 2009 11:11 AM by EMR and HIPAA

EMR Bloggers Come and Go, but EMR and HIPAA is Forever

I always think it’s fun to think back on the last 5 or so years doing this blog. When I first started there was a lot of excitement about HIT blogging. People were just kind of getting into it and there was a lot of interaction between bloggers...

Published Fri, Nov 27 2009 11:21 AM by EMR and HIPAA

EMR and HIPAA Thanksgiving

You know you’re a true blogger when you write a post for a holiday like Thanksgiving. Luckily, blog software is so good these days that I wrote this well before Thanksgiving and then just scheduled it to appear. So, I’m likely either: eating...

Published Thu, Nov 26 2009 11:45 AM by EMR and HIPAA

OpenEMR Success Story

A little while back I read an interesting EMR success story using the open source EMR appropriately named OpenEMR. The story is by Joe Holzer and I got his permission to republish it here for all to enjoy. You can find more about Joe on his website (not...

Published Wed, Nov 25 2009 11:00 AM by EMR and HIPAA

Fred Trotter Thinks CONNECT Will Unify Health Information Transfer

I’ll admit beforehand that I’m a member of the Fred Trotter fan club. He’s a little bit psycho when it comes to open source licensing and the like, but that’s probably why I love him so much. When he truly believes in something...

Published Wed, Nov 25 2009 8:50 AM by EMR and EHR

Vista (VA EMR) Is Not Meant for Solo Docs and Small Group Practices

The VA announced about 4-5 years ago that they would be releasing their Vista EMR as an open source package. Of course, the headline read “Government Gives Away Free EMR.” In essence, this was true. The government was making their Vista EMR...

Published Tue, Nov 24 2009 11:03 AM by EMR and HIPAA

Interesting Updates on Free Vista EMR

I previously did a post about some of the problems with Vista-FM. I considered that it was different than Vista, but wasn’t sure completely. The beauty of blogging is that when you make mistakes smart people come and correct you in the comments...

Published Tue, Nov 24 2009 8:44 AM by EMR and EHR

Where Meaningful Use Should Be Focused

“”Meaningful Use” should be linked to those two things (cutting costs and better care).” -Russ Reese in the comments. The above assertion about Meaningful Use was made in the comments and I was kind of struck by it when I first...

Published Mon, Nov 23 2009 11:52 AM by EMR and HIPAA

Best Advice for Those Implementing an EMR

Since it’s the weekend, I like to open it up for the readers of this site to share their knowledge. Let’s hear the best advice you could give to someone who is implementing an EMR. I’ll admit that I had a hard time just choosing one...

Published Sun, Nov 22 2009 11:38 AM by EMR and HIPAA

EMR Stimulus Money is All or Nothing

The wonderful John Chilmark posted a short message he heard from a Keynote address by John Halamka at the PHAT conference put on by the Harvard School of Public Health. Here’s the message: there will be no partial reimbursement for meeting just...

Published Sat, Nov 21 2009 11:45 AM by EMR and HIPAA

EMR US Adoption Rates

People are always interested in learning what the adoption rates for EMR software are in the US. Chilmark recently posted about a Harvard School of Public Health study that was presented at the PHAT conference. This study focused on EMR adoption rates...

Published Sat, Nov 21 2009 11:22 AM by EMR and EHR

Study Shows Little Benefit from EMR in Hospitals

People have been buzzing over a recent New York Times article (requires login, but you can get a login and password here) which discusses a Harvard study showing little benefit seen so far in Electronic Patient Records. The study is interesting and worthy...

Published Fri, Nov 20 2009 11:46 AM by EMR and HIPAA

Chrome OS Electronic Medical Record Anyone?

The tech world is buzzing about Google’s new Operating System (OS) called Chrome. You can read the full writeup from Google’s Chrome OS announcement on Techcrunch or the official announcement on the Official Google blog. Basically, Google...

Published Fri, Nov 20 2009 11:05 AM by EMR and EHR

EMR Selection and Implementation Books

I’ve had in mind and been approached by a number of people about writing a book about the EMR selection and implementation process. If you’ve read this blog for a while, you know I’ve had in mind to write some e-Books. I like the e-Book...

Published Thu, Nov 19 2009 11:50 AM by EMR and HIPAA