December 2009 - EMR and HIPAA

EMR and HIPAA 2009

I knew that this year had been a really great year on EMR and HIPAA. However, I didn’t really realize how much we’d exploded until I started looking at the stats for the site. Thanks to the EMR stimulus (among other things), EMR and HIPAA...

Published Thu, Dec 31 2009 7:37 PM by EMR and HIPAA

Predicting HHS Meaningful Use Guidelines

The wait is nearly over for those of us wanting more details from HHS on the term meaningful use. In fact, I hope the criteria hasn’t come out already since I’m on vacation without internet (except my phone). While we wait I think it’s...

Published Wed, Dec 30 2009 11:02 AM by EMR and HIPAA

Fitting EMR Stimulus Money Into Your Strategic Plans

A few quick thoughts on the EMR stimulus: EMR stimulus is the icing on the cake….not the cake. EMR stimulus is the cherry on top…not the ice cream. EMR stimulus is the cream on the hot cocoa…not the hot cocoa. That is all. Related posts...

Published Tue, Dec 29 2009 11:50 AM by EMR and HIPAA

First Advertisers on EMR and EHR

I’m really happy to welcome the first advertisers to EMR and EHR. We’ve been going through a lot of growth on this website and I expect this trend will continue and each of these advertisers will benefit by hopping on board early. My goal...

Published Mon, Dec 28 2009 12:55 PM by EMR and EHR

EMR Patient Data Interoperability Between 3 Locations

Another interesting story from EMRUpdate talking about how one EMR vendor, Medtuity EMR, took 3 locations and tied their EMRs together. However, they didn’t just do one centralized database accessed from each location. Instead, they essentially...

Published Mon, Dec 28 2009 12:33 PM by EMR and HIPAA

First EMR Job Posting Results

You’ll have to excuse the lack of serious content in many of my posts this week or so. It’s the holidays and so traffic is down. So, I’m not spending as much time creating other content since many people won’t get to see it anyway...

Published Sat, Dec 26 2009 11:12 PM by EMR and HIPAA

Is Your EMR Stimulus Ready?

Brian at new EMR vendor Health Fusion sent me an email discussing some of the posts I’d done about CCHIT certification. In the email, he talked about how many doctors would ask him if his EMR is CCHIT certified. He then told me that his response...

Published Thu, Dec 24 2009 12:15 PM by EMR and HIPAA

Balancing Privacy and Security with Patient Care

Healthcare InformationWeek has an article that discusses the challenges of EMR security and privacy. A lot of the stuff is nothing new to those of us in the healthcare space. Although, it’s interesting to see how they summarize things like the goal...

Published Wed, Dec 23 2009 1:33 PM by EMR and EHR

Type of IT Support You Want for Your EMR

On my favorite EMR forum, EMR Update, Matt Chase from Medtuity suggested the following pattern for how IT is involved in the EMR implementations he’s been involved in. Here’s what he said (emphasis added): The characteristic pattern on a new...

Published Wed, Dec 23 2009 12:04 PM by EMR and HIPAA

Insightful User Experience with e-MDs EMR

The following is the experience of one user who’s switching their EMR from Penchart to e-MDs that I think is insightful to consider before selecting an EMR so that one day you don’t have to deal with these issues. You can find the original...

Published Tue, Dec 22 2009 11:43 AM by EMR and EHR

ARRA EHR Stimulus Bill Benefits

In the press release I wrote about in my previous CCHIT certification post, they had a nice summary list of the meaningful use requirements as we know them today: • Allow patients to access clinical information • Comply with state and federal privacy...

Published Tue, Dec 22 2009 11:31 AM by EMR and HIPAA

First CCHIT Certified 2010 EHR – Badge of Wisdom or Stupidity?

I recently got a very short email sent to me to a press release about the first EMR to receive the full CCHIT 2011 Comprehensive Certification. I’m not sure what they wanted me to do with the release, and so I guess I’ll do what I normally...

Published Mon, Dec 21 2009 11:12 AM by EMR and HIPAA

Meaning (or lack therof) of the CCHIT Preliminary ARRA EHR Certification

I can’t help but repost something that HISTalk posted about one of the companies that’s now CCHIT preliminary ARRA certified and the meaning of said certification: From Lester Bangs: “Re: ARRA certification. Companies like this one (and they...

Published Sun, Dec 20 2009 2:43 AM by EMR and EHR

EMR Job Board

One of my most common questions on this site is where people can go to find EMR jobs. My first response is usually to direct them to the EMR and EHR job page on the EMR and HIPAA wiki. Now, I’ve decided to create an EMR and HIPPA job page for those...

Published Fri, Dec 18 2009 2:20 PM by EMR and HIPAA

Drummond Group Still Preparing for ARRA EHR Certification

A while back I wrote about the great news that the Drummond Group was planning to compete with CCHIT in doing EHR certification. The news coming out of HHS has been slow coming for these new EHR certification bodies, but I just received this email from...

Published Fri, Dec 18 2009 12:37 PM by EMR and EHR