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Digital divide - Electronic Medical Records

Both the VA and Kaiser have been 2 of the real success stories with electronic medical records, and as we all read in the press while the transitioning was taking place, it was not a smooth road, there are bumps with implementing any medical records system...

Published Mon, Sep 09 2008 7:58 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Other Items of Interest, EMR, Medical Records, EHR, VA, Kaiser Permanente

Desperate Hospitals - Century City Doctors Hospital (Los Angeles) begins shutting down, others file Chapter 11 to reorganize

This is a continuing post about "desperate hospitals" that I started last week. In light of the recent Medicare rules, audits, etc. some hospitals are just not making it. 50% of the hospitals in the country border on insolvency. ...

Published Fri, Aug 08 2008 7:40 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Other Items of Interest, EMR, healthcare, Medical Records, EHR, Hospitals, bankruptcy, Chapter 11, Open Vista, Chapter 7

Start-Up ER Vendor Raises Funds - Forerun ED Dashboards

This should come as no surprise as Dr. Halamka has posted about some of this technology in his own blog, which there is a link to on this site and you can also go here to read. Also in the news recently was the availability of another program used...

Published Fri, Aug 08 2008 4:34 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Other Items of Interest, EMR, Medical Records, EHR, Harvard Medical School, Harvard, Dashboard, Beth Israel Deasoness Medical Center

EMRConsultant.com Provides Electronic Medical Records Recommendations to Over 7,500 Medical Practices

If you are looking for a firm to help with consulting on the medical records business, here's a place to start. I know Dr. Fishman and his staff of experts can be of help in the process. BD Palm Beach Gardens, FL, August 16, 2008...

Published Mon, Aug 08 2008 7:23 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, My Commentaries, EMR, healthcare, Medical Records, EHR, Health IT, EMR Consultant

IMedica not satisfied with current agreement with Misys Electronic Medical Records and looking to terminate the contract..

Dispute among the EMR/EHR vendors, and Misys in in the process of merging with Allscripts, so perhaps too much at once? 2 small sales of the rebranded software in the amount of time might give anyone's sales and marketing departments a little...

Published Thu, Aug 08 2008 12:55 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Other Items of Interest, EMR, EHR, Electronic Medical Records, Mysis, iMedica

Hospital Subsidies Are Off to a Slow Start with Electronic Health Records

Congress had paved the way with relaxed Stark rules and regulations for subsidies to take place from the hospital level, but what's still wrong with this picture? It all comes right back around to money. Hospitals are not in a position...

Published Mon, Aug 08 2008 2:23 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Other Items of Interest, My Commentaries, EMR, Hospital, Kaiser, Medical Records, EHR, Start Laws, Epic, IT Health, Hospital Records

More Than 70,000 Healthcare Providers Use Dragon Medical for Voice-Driven Clinical Documentation

I use Dragon as well both on my desktop and on my Tablet PC. It certainly makes it easier for me with just integrating with Outlook for email for one example and with the tablet PC and using the dual array microphones, there's no headset required...

Published Thu, Aug 08 2008 12:04 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Other Items of Interest, EMR, Medical Records, EHR, Tablet PC, TabletKiosk, Nuance, Tablet-PC, Dragon Naturally Speaking, Dictation

Scanhub Cost-Effective Document Scanning, Imaging, and OCR Services

Welcome to my new advertising client. Scanhub is a service that every office going from paper to and EHR or EMR could certainly use. One of the real benefits is the simplicity of their pricing. Scanhub has been used by many EMR companies...

Published Tue, Aug 08 2008 3:21 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Other Items of Interest, EMR, EHR, Document Scanning, Paper Charts, Document Managment, OCR Services, Medical Charts

Press Release E-MDs Health Care Records - Maryland

As an added benefit, for the participants in the program, special pricing incentives have been included for the group. BD e-MDs, an industry leader in the development and implementation of electronic health records (EHRs), announces it has...

Published Wed, Jul 07 2008 6:45 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, healthcare, Medical Records, EHR, e-MDs

3rd Annual World Congress Leadership Summit on The Road to Interoperability – Key Note Speakers, Goals and PHRs

This week the Congress meeting is in Boston. I referenced in a earlier post that PHR's, (personal health records) are being viewed by Healthcare leadership as the favorite vehicle for interoperability. There is a podcast at the link below...

Published Wed, Jul 07 2008 5:58 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Other Items of Interest, Microsoft/Windows News, EMR, healthcare, microsoft, Medical Records, EHR, Microsoft Healthcare, PHR, Interoperability

E-medical records: What seems to be the problem?

The hospitals in San Diego all still share on paper. Technology is not the problem here, it has to do more with incentives, for one why would 2 competing hospitals want to share, and I say this from a business standpoint only, as reflected...

Published Mon, Jul 07 2008 12:27 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Insurance, Other Items of Interest, Hospital, healthcare, Medical Records, EHR, PHR

Proposed E-Prescribing Regulations: A Windfall for Consultants and Software Vendors?

This is what the DEA is recommending for their report on E-Prescribing. The portion about confirming the physician’s authority though is not a bad idea at all in view of the Medicare Fraud this week involving “dead doctors” who were still prescribing...

Published Fri, Jul 07 2008 11:10 AM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Pharma/FDA News, EMR, drugs, EHR, Physicians, Pharma, Prescriptions, e-prescribing, DEA

e-MDs Applauds Saline Memorial Hospital Community Health Information Exchange

This is what healthcare is all about today, being able to have access and share vital information, thus avoiding having to look through more than one file or data base to bring it all together under one roof. As time progresses on, integration...

Published Mon, Jul 07 2008 1:51 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Hospital, Physician, healthcare, Medical Records, EHR, e-MDs

Sahara i440D Tablet PC from TabletKiosk – Running Open Suse 10.3 Linux

Nice video showing some “inking” with Linux. Get a Linux license from Microsoft sound out of the ordinary, yes it does, but in China Microsoft had partnered with Novell to just that. In healthcare, recently more software vendors have announced...

Published Sun, Jul 07 2008 2:52 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Tablet PCs, Medically Related, Technology, Other Items of Interest, EMR, TabletPC, healthcare, EHR, Tablet PC, TabletKiosk, Saharai440D, Linux, Tablet-PC, Inking

Better data for better health – The PHR – What will you do?

This article does a good job in outlining the direction of the PHR, personal health record for those who have not caught up with the lingo yet. Do patients want it? As of now most probably don’t know what to do with it, agree. There are some...

Published Thu, Jul 07 2008 3:00 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Insurance, My Commentaries, healthcare, Medical Records, EHR, PHR

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