April 2010 - EMR and HIPAA

Percent of ePrescribing for Meaningful Use

I’m still really disturbed by the fact that we have so few practical meaningful use details. Sure, we have a lot of guidelines and a lot of prognosticators guessing at what they mean and how they’ll be measured. We even have a certifying body...

Published Fri, Apr 30 2010 11:47 AM by EMR and HIPAA

Guest Post: Will Your New Smartphone Ruin Your Practice?

Guest Post: Hayden Hartland works at Spearstone, makers of Spearstone’s DiskAgent offering which provides a multi-platform approach to smartphone security by allowing lock, data-wipe, and GPS-tracking from any web-browser along with online backup for...

Published Thu, Apr 29 2010 11:10 AM by EMR and HIPAA

Federal Health Architecture (FHA) Program Director Leaves ONC

I’ve mentioned a few times about the very interesting CONNECT open source project that was coming out of ONC. In fact, I did a video about CONNECT and NHIN at HIMSS. Turns out the mastermind behind CONNECT is a guy named Vish Sankaran. Well, I just...

Published Wed, Apr 28 2010 7:00 PM by EMR and EHR

EMR and HIPAA Advertising

Last time I took a second to recognize the advertisers on EMR and HIPAA I was just starting my planning for HIMSS 10. Now, HIMSS 10 isn’t much more than a spec in the rear view mirror. It’s amazing how time flies. Well, at this point I’m...

Published Wed, Apr 28 2010 11:03 AM by EMR and HIPAA

Top 10 Meaningful Use Challenges

CSC report lists top 10 challenges that doctors face when it comes to meeting the stage 1 meaningful use requirements. Here’s the list: 1. Capture the data–that includes collecting and entering data in a structured formats so that data can...

Published Wed, Apr 28 2010 2:34 AM by EMR and EHR

One Example of Rating Long Term Care EMR Software

After my previous post on EMR company ratings, one of my readers pointed me to a resource (pdf) that kind of rates the various long term care EMR software vendors. There are 64 listed and not all are EMR vendors, but it’s an interesting way to approach...

Published Tue, Apr 27 2010 10:59 AM by EMR and HIPAA

e-Prescribing Medicare Penalties in 2012

One of my readers pointed me to an article talking about the potential Medicare penalties that will be enforced starting in 2012 to physicians who don’t use e-Prescribing. Here’s the relevant info: As previously reported, the Medicare Improvements...

Published Mon, Apr 26 2010 2:14 PM by EMR and EHR

Weight Loss Compared to EMR Implementation

If you’ve read this blog for a while you know that I love to compare EMR implementation to other parts of life. It’s always amazing to me how similar other parts of life are to EMR selection and implementation. In case, you’re a newer...

Published Mon, Apr 26 2010 11:18 AM by EMR and HIPAA

What’s Behind EMR Software

Buyers’ uncertainty and distrust combine to create angst and skepticism that their purchase will be the correct one. Related posts: EMR Tire Kickers Guest Post: EHR Certification Does Not Equal Meaningful Use Top 12 Electronic Medical Record Software...

Published Mon, Apr 26 2010 12:27 AM by EMR and EHR

Doctors and Patients and Paperwork

I was reading through a thread over on EMR Update which talks about this New York Times article. Here’s some really interesting quotes from both sources that are worth considering: In “The Hostile Hospital,” from the Lemony Snicket “Series of Unfortunate...

Published Fri, Apr 23 2010 11:38 AM by EMR and HIPAA

Practical Meaningful Use Details

I’ve spent a lot of time reading about and thinking about meaningful use requirements for the EMR stimulus money. I’ve posted about an easy 12 page matrix for meaningful use, a list of 25 meaningful use objectives, and some thoughts on meaningful...

Published Thu, Apr 22 2010 5:25 PM by EMR and EHR

Possible REC Business Model

As I said before, I’m finding the EHR RECs very intriguing right now. Thus a few extra posts about the RECs. First, thanks for those who have been helping update the EHR REC wiki page. There’s still a ways to go, but little by little we’ll...

Published Thu, Apr 22 2010 12:03 PM by EMR and HIPAA

Rating Top EMR Companies

Lately I’ve been really intrigued by the concept of trying to rate the long list of EMR vendors in order to identify the “Top EMR Companies.” I guess I’ve been intrigued by this idea for a number of reasons. First, tons of people...

Published Wed, Apr 21 2010 12:12 PM by EMR and HIPAA

EHR Regional Extension Centers (RECs)

Every day I’m seeing little pieces of information come out about the EHR Regional Extension Centers (RECs). Sadly, there’s not one central location that is covering the activity of these RECs so that doctors and clinics could quickly see what’s...

Published Tue, Apr 20 2010 11:23 AM by EMR and HIPAA

Insane EMR Ideas

In the vast amount of information that comes through my email, Twitter account, RSS feeds, etc one of them recently caught my eye. It was a webinar called, “Insane Ideas in Healthcare IT” by Christine D. Chang; Ovum, Analyst of Healthcare...

Published Mon, Apr 19 2010 11:27 AM by EMR and EHR