September 2010 - EMR and HIPAA

“I use EMR and so I am MY OWN transcriptionist.” – Doc at AAFP

I’m currently in Denver attending the AAFP conference. So far I’m really glad that I’ve come to the conference. It’s really fantastic to be surrounded by providers. It’s a stark contrast to HIMSS where you’re mostly...

Published Thu, Sep 30 2010 12:58 PM by EMR and HIPAA

NYC Hospital Puts 6800 Health Records Online

Great Meaningful Use Short List

Seeing the legislative process first hand I must admit that it’s a bit overwhelming to see the volume of legislation that they put out which is all done in this pretty cryptic legalese and full of pages of useless recaps and other fluff. I guess...

Published Wed, Sep 29 2010 10:54 AM by EMR and EHR

More CCHIT Details

The good people over at >HITECH Answers must have more time on their hands than I do. They got on the CCHIT conference call where they talked about their newest ONC ATCB certified EHR program. Here’s a portion of the HITECH Answers summary which...

Published Tue, Sep 28 2010 1:46 PM by EMR and HIPAA

Exclusion Help for Specialists Interested in the EMR Stimulus

At this point, I’m guessing that most people have heard of meaningful use and many likely know about the 25 meaningful use criteria (15 core MU measures and 10 menu). I’m not sure how well communicated the exclusions that are available for...

Published Tue, Sep 28 2010 11:54 AM by EMR and EHR

EMR Stimulus Poll

I previously posted an EMR Stimulus poll asking about people’s plans for the EMR stimulus. Well, that was more than a year ago and before we really knew what the words meaningful use and certified EHR meant. Now that we know more about those two...

Published Mon, Sep 27 2010 11:22 AM by EMR and HIPAA

Physicians Don’t Know About EMR Stimulus Penalties and Don’t Care

The Physicians’ Reciprocal Insurers (PRI) recently posted the results of a survey they did of 500 physicians regarding Electronic Medical Records (EMR) software and the EMR stimulus money and penalties. Here’s one of their most interesting findings...

Published Fri, Sep 24 2010 1:10 PM by EMR and HIPAA

Physician Income Lowering – EMR as the Solution or Problem

Evan Steele, CEO of SRSsoft has an interesting post called “Preserving Physician Income in a Low-Margin Environment: EMR Strategy up on his blog which does a great job summarizing a physician’s income with a nice graph. In it he shows the...

Published Fri, Sep 24 2010 3:06 AM by EMR and EHR

Healthcare Data Breaches

I was recently sent an Information Week article on “Steady Bleed: State of HealthCare Data Breaches.” The article basically tries to list out all of the data breaches that are happening in healthcare and how healthcare companies aren’t...

Published Thu, Sep 23 2010 1:19 PM by EMR and HIPAA

SaaS EMR vs. Client Server EMR and AAFP in Denver

I knew that my previous post about the cost to update an EMR would bring out the people who like to back the SaaS EMR model versus those who like to back the Client Server EMR. As I’ve said before, it’s one of the most heated debates you can...

Published Wed, Sep 22 2010 12:51 PM by EMR and HIPAA

Speech Recognition and EMR

Shahid, The Healthcare Guy, recently added a guest post from Nick van Terheyden, MD, Chief Medical Information Officer (Clinical Language Understanding) from Nuance Healthcare (Yes, they make Dragon Naturally Speaking – DNS) about making the most...

Published Tue, Sep 21 2010 12:52 PM by EMR and HIPAA

InfoGard Laboratories to Start Certifying EHR Vendors as an ONC-ATCB

InfoGard Laboratories, the nation’s first accredited IT security testing laboratory, is approved by the Health and Human Services, Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT as an ONC-Authorized Testing and Certification Body (ONC-ATCB) for the...

Published Mon, Sep 20 2010 3:36 PM by EMR and EHR

Cost to Update to Meaningful Use Certified EHR Software

In my previous post about the EHR certification costs, a reader emailed me that I’d missed an important downstream cost. It’s not as much a cost for the EHR company as it is for the current user of an EHR system. It’s the cost for a...

Published Mon, Sep 20 2010 2:10 PM by EMR and HIPAA

To See EMR Stimulus Money or Not To See EMR Stimulus Money

There have been a number of articles and studies that have come out recently that suggest that hospitals are unlikely to receive the EMR stimulus money from the HITECH Act. Here’s one study from CSC that’s been summarized by Ken Terry from...

Published Fri, Sep 17 2010 1:16 PM by EMR and HIPAA

iPad Won’t Transform Hospital IT, But Has Potential With EMR

i Medical Apps recently posted an article about Apple’s iPad falling short of transforming hospital Medical Care, but says it may have potential with EMR. We’ve discussed the iPad and EMR quite a few times on this blog with interesting responses...

Published Fri, Sep 17 2010 12:07 PM by EMR and EHR