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SkinPut A Projected Touchscreen That Controls Your Phone Or Game Console Technology on Your Skin

Back in October of 2010 I wrote about Skinput and thought it was the solution for input and that was before Kinect came along and it still could be a mobile solution with using one’s arm for both control and data. Kinect of course allows gesture...

Published Thu, Mar 03 2011 5:09 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Microsoft/Windows News, Computers, healthcare, microsoft, Medical Records, Mouse, projector, keyboards, Gaming, data inpt, Carnegie Mellon

McKesson Buying British Software Company, System C-A Microsoft Technology Partner

The software company has been around in the UK for a number of years and when you go to the website you can see where last year they were the winner of the Public Sector contest for Microsoft Partner of the Year for 2010. McKesson uses Microsoft...

Published Thu, Mar 03 2011 4:42 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, microsoft, Medical Records, Health IT, McKesson, Hospitals, software, NHS, Mergers and Acquisitions

Government Has Same Over Bloated Software Issues as Health IT-Costing Millions-Lack of Collaboration Is Building a Bubble

This is a good video from the Wall Street Journal that talks about this very same issue with everyone building the “better mousetrap”. Specifically mentioned here are a couple of agencies and the FDA is one of them. Now this is not easy and...

Published Tue, Mar 03 2011 6:17 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, EMR, Medical Records, EHR, CIO, Health IT, Budgets, Government, User Interface, Medical Software, collaboration, IBM, innovation, Watson, gluts

Does Every Payroll Service Need an EHR? ADP Payroll Bought One-AdvancedMDs-More Integrated Business Algorithms

Mergers and acquisitions continue in healthcare and perhaps we will see more like this one? If you have not caught on yet, the financial side is kind of ruling today with acquisitions being on steroids. Part of the reason here too is...

Published Tue, Mar 03 2011 5:51 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Medical Records, EHR, Health IT, Business Intelligence, Benefits, Data, Algorithms, ADP, payroll services, Advanced MDs

St. Joseph Health Systems To Roll Out Allscripts Software As Service Care Management and HomeCare And Will Work with AT&T for Telehealth Stations

This is a combination post of a couple of new things going on with St. Josephs Health Systems. First of all the Allscripts Software as a Service will be rolled out to help track patients through their system and secondly the Home care unit will...

Published Mon, Feb 02 2011 5:48 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Medical Records, EHR, Cisco, Physicians, PHR, Hospitals, Heatlh IT, Software as a Service, Allscripts, wellness, AT&T, pilot, urgent care, St. Josephs Health System

Harris to Acquire Carefx Data Aggregator

This is one way to get technologies collaborating, buyouts. think this year at HIMMS probably data aggregation and finance were the most popular, at least with the the exhibitors. Here’ we have Harris who is doing work for the Florida...

Published Mon, Feb 02 2011 4:57 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Medical Records, Health IT, Hospitals, HIE, Mergers and Acquisitions, Data Aggregation, government contracts, CareFX, Harris

GE Healthcare Becomes the Next Medical Records System to Offer Ipad and Iphone Software Solutions

It is certainly beginning to look like the Ipad is becoming a working hardware partner in the medical records business as GE is the latest to announce Centricity Advanced and Centricity Practice Solutions coming to an Ipad soon. Back in January...

Published Mon, Feb 02 2011 3:46 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Medical Records, EHR, Patient, Heatlhcare, Doctors, GE Healthcare, iPhone, healthcrare, HeatlhIT, IPad

Los Angeles REC Center (Medical Records Assistance) is Open for Business HITEC-LA

I try to keep some updates on what’s happening at the ONC created REC centers across the US and everyone is a little different being they are a private enterprise coordinating to help physicians and medical businesses with converting and setting up electronic...

Published Fri, Feb 02 2011 2:19 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Training, Medical Records, medicare, EHR, PHR, Medicaid, Los Angeles, Vendors, Meaningful Use, non profits, ONC, stimulus money, REC, members, licensing

NextGen EHR System Has A Pen to Capture Data for Medical Records System

In reviewing some of the announcements and product at HIMSS this year I ran across “the pen” and this looks to be an interesting add on for a medical records system. What happens when the power goes out was one item that came to mind. There...

Published Fri, Feb 02 2011 11:38 AM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, healthcare, Medical Records, EHR, Health IT, NextGen, data entry, signature, pen

Intel Discusses Healthcare Reform and Trends-Not Only a Health IT Issue, But Also a Cultural Change

Here’s some additional coverage of what is being discussed this week at HIMSS. Eric Dishman from Intel talks about technology trends and also the cultural combination needed to make it all come together. He talks about engaging the community...

Published Wed, Feb 02 2011 1:21 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Intel, Medical Records, EHR, Health IT, PHR, Personal Health Records, Telehealth, ehealth, mobile technology, mHealth, HIMSS, Communities

Extormity Revealed! Medical Informatics Engineering (MIE) and NoMoreClipboard.com The People Behind the Parody

This was good and I liked the Extormity humor as much as everyone else. I had a feeling it was those folks at No More Clipboard as at HIMSS in 2008 as I chatted with a guy from the company who was just enamored over Extormity and showed me the site...

Published Tue, Feb 02 2011 8:29 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Other Items of Interest, healthcare, Medical Records, EHR, PHR, Humor, personal heatlh records, Parody, NoMoreClipboard, Extormity, Seedie, EMR Update

Cedars-Sinai Selects Encore Health Resources to Implement Next Phase of Electronic Medical Records-CPOE(Computerized Physician Order Entry)

Encore Health Resources is an Epic certified partner so this makes sense since the hospital is using Epic and last year went full force with the Epic Revenue cycle Suite. Computerized Physician Order Entry is the tricky or complex part of the solution...

Published Tue, Feb 02 2011 2:02 AM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Other Items of Interest, Medical Records, Health IT, Tenet, Hospitals, integration, Epic, aggregation, CPOE, Cedar Sinai Health, Encore Health Resources, computerized physician order entry, CS-Link

Massachusetts State Senator At HIMMS States HIE Is An Overcrowded Field of Vendors

I do have to say that I agree with him on this as with researching and posting on this blog every day, I see all the announcements and so forth. I get tired and confused at times with what certain vendors are offering. He has some ground to...

Published Tue, Feb 02 2011 12:49 AM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, healthcare, Medical Records, EHR, Health IT, Budgets, Doctors, Patients, Money, HIE, HIMSS, Senator Richard Moore

CDC Awards Grant to Connect Hospital Labs to Exchange Test Results and Patient Information Using SureScripts Direct

It looks like the SureScripts network for secure data transmission is going to get a little more business with the latest grant as last week the American Academy of Family Physicians announced their program for $15 by subscription for physicians to securely...

Published Mon, Feb 02 2011 9:59 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Hospital, Labs, Medical Records, EHR, Health IT, Pathology, CDC, Meaningful Use, Surescripts, results, College of American Pathologists, America Hospital Association, secure transmission

Imprivata Single Sign On Technologies Announces Additional New Capabilities and Products To Include Connecting with Epic

Single sign on is what every doctor wants who works at a hospital and adds medical chart information without having to go through several sign on procedures, one for PACS, one for records and so on. A VMware application is now available so those...

Published Mon, Feb 02 2011 2:58 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, healthcare, Medical Records, Health IT, Hospitals, NHS, Single Sign On, VMWare, Memorial Health Systems, HIMSS, Imprivata

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