EMR and HIPAA

For years, public health officials and health leaders have been sounding the praises of EMRs, arguing that patients would enjoy safer, more effective care once providers went digital. For a while, it was a tough sell, with surveys repeatedly suggesting...

John’s Note: Much of this post will be child’s play for those of you reading the blog that are steeped in meaningful use, the HITECH act, EHR Certification, and the EHR stimulus money. However, I thought this guest post was a nice intro to...

Ever wonder whether it would be smart to drop your vendors and grow your own EMR/HIT apps? Here’s some food for thought. Today, I ran across a very detailed analysis of the labor costs involved in developing EMR and HIT applications, straight from...

Last week I posted a poll asking how many readers of EMR and HIPAA used a PHR. Here’s the results of the PHR poll: Pretty interesting to see that about 77% of those voting have not started a PHR or started one, but didn’t add much to their...

If I were running a medical practice — and knew I had to roll an EMR soon — I’d be banging my head against a wall. While there’s plenty of talk about the reasons for EMR adoption (in some cases, 44,000 reasons) what consistent...

Many of you will probably remember my post about Jim Tate and all his EHR certification experience. As I said in that post, Jim Tate knows his stuff when it comes to the EHR certification bodies (ONC-ATCB). So, I found his advice for EHR vendors on HITECH...

Today I caught wind of an interesting deal, in which giant payroll services vendor ADP acquired EMR/practice management vendor AdvancedMD. Here’s how the two justify the deal: “By leveraging the collective offering of AdvancedMD’s PM and EHR...

As you know, I regularly like to highlight some of the best and most interesting comments on my various websites. Especially since I know many of you don’t read all the comments (shame on you). This comment on meaningful use comes from someone who...