February 2011 - EMR and HIPAA

Do You Need An EMR To Make ACOs Work?

Right now, as things stand, only a small percentage of medical practices have fully implemented EMRs (about 15 percent), research suggests. But the trend toward integrating physicians in Accountable Care Organizations is moving much faster. I don’t...

Published Mon, Feb 28 2011 9:44 PM by EMR and EHR

Meaningful Use Monday – Follow-up on ePrescribing

The last Meaningful Use Monday post detoured from the EHR incentives to ePrescribing under MIPPA—given its importance based on the impending schedule of penalties. Because I receive ePrescribing questions on a daily basis, I thought a quick recap of ePrescribing...

Published Mon, Feb 28 2011 10:58 AM by EMR and HIPAA

New Media Meetup at #HIMSS11 Pictures and Video

#bbpBox_40843112360189953{background:#022330 url(http://a2.twimg.com/a/1298664727/images/themes/theme15/bg.png) no-repeat !important;padding:20px;}#bbpBox_40843112360189953 p.bbpTweet{background:#fff;padding:10px 12px 10px 12px !important;margin:0 !important;min...

Published Mon, Feb 28 2011 8:00 AM by EMR and HIPAA

Investing in EMR Companies

I was asked a really interesting question recently: “If you could invest in an EMR company, which EMR company would you choose to invest in?” I find this question really interesting, because I’ve seen the detailed financials of an EMR...

Published Mon, Feb 28 2011 3:45 AM by EMR and EHR

Personal Health Record (PHR) Poll

As is often my Sunday tradition, I love to post some healthcare IT related polls. Today’s poll is prompted by this tweet I sent out earlier this weekend: #bbpBox_41380840890048512{background:#9AE4E8 url(http://a3.twimg.com/a/1298664727/images/themes...

Published Mon, Feb 28 2011 1:22 AM by EMR and HIPAA

Physician Adoption of EMRs Growing, But Don’t Expect A Landslide

Not only do I think exponential growth is unlikely, I'd argue that EMR adoption by physicians will be painfully slow for at least a few years more. Related posts: Survey on Impact of EHR Adoption and EHR Implementation Will EMR Vendors Cut Through...

Published Sat, Feb 26 2011 11:27 PM by EMR and EHR

Will EMR Vendors Cut Through The Noise This Year?

If it was hard to get buyers' attention over the last two years -- especially that of fearful physicians -- it's going to be a Herculean challenge this year. Related posts: What are the Benefits of EMR? EMR Parody Reveals Backers, Makes Serious...

Published Fri, Feb 25 2011 8:21 PM by EMR and EHR

HIMSS11 EMR Company and EMR Market Wrap Up

It’s going to take a couple weeks to really process all that I saw and heard at HIMSS 2011. In fact, there’s no doubt that much of the content I publish over the next month or two will be things I learned from the people I learned from at...

Published Fri, Feb 25 2011 2:17 PM by EMR and HIPAA

EMR Innovation and the Future of EMR – #HIMSS11

Turns out that my previous post about lack of EMR innovation at HIMSS was a little more controversial than I expected it to be. Plus, I’m not sure that I communicated the entire message about EMR innovation and the future of EMR software in healthcare...

Published Thu, Feb 24 2011 11:04 AM by EMR and HIPAA

EHR Innovations Have Gone Missing at HIMSS11

One of the most disappointing parts of HIMSS for me is that the really creative and disruptive innovations are missing from HIMSS. There are a few items I saw like the Shareable Ink technology, some of the Nuance NLP/voice recognition work, and a pretty...

Published Wed, Feb 23 2011 11:53 PM by EMR and HIPAA

EMR Parody Reveals Backers, Makes Serious Points

The anonymous players behind fictional EHR "Extormity" have identified themselves: they're NoMoreClipboard.com and MIE- Medical Informatics Engineering. Related posts: Extormity EHR Does It Again Late EHR buyers focused on vendor customer...

Published Wed, Feb 23 2011 1:37 PM by EMR and EHR

Meaningful Use Dashboards at #HIMSS11

Today was a bit overwhelming for me. Nothing bad about HIMSS, but there’s some much interesting information and good connections that it’s hard to process all at once. So far, I have only had one or maybe two meetings that weren’t just...

Published Wed, Feb 23 2011 1:39 AM by EMR and HIPAA

Heard in the HIMSS Hallway – Government Wants All EHR Software Easily Certified and Doctors Showing Meaningful Use

Today, the most interesting thing I heard in the hallway of HIMSS was about ONC and the government’s perspective on the current EHR certification and meaningful use stage 1. Someone I spoke told me that ONC is vry focused on getting all EHR software...

Published Wed, Feb 23 2011 1:22 AM by EMR and EHR

Breaking: The Real People Behind Extormity

As many of you know, EMR and HIPAA is a big time news company. We have a really fat budget and pay our reporters huge amounts of money to sit and smoke cigars while producing very little content of value. One of our biggest expenses here at HIMSS is in...

Published Tue, Feb 22 2011 9:46 AM by EMR and HIPAA

HIMSS11 Thoughts – Day 2

Hopefully none of you were expecting Meaningful Use Mondays. We’re taking the week off thanks to HIMSS, but there will certainly be some meaningful use discussion in my day 2 experience at HIMSS11. I must admit that my morning was a little disappointing...

Published Tue, Feb 22 2011 12:09 AM by EMR and HIPAA