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Computer technology can cut into personalized patient care with complexity and complicated user interfaces

This article offers some very good insight here and I’ll add my 2 cents worth as well. We all know that documentation, no matter what kinds it is, paper or electronic is mandatory to good healthcare, but technology creates it own set of new issues...

Published Sun, Nov 11 2008 3:01 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, EMR, microsoft, Medical Records, patient care, EHR, Common User Interface, User Interface, Medical Software, Templates, data input

Personalized medicine will rely on IT – It’s all about Software

Let’s put it another way, it can’t exist without IT. Again it all comes back to running algorithms to obtain desired results. As I have mentioned before, Algorithms is one of the hottest words right now in healthcare as we all make decisions...

Published Tue, Nov 11 2008 10:54 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Microsoft/Windows News, EMR, personalized medicine, DNA, Genomics, healthcare, microsoft, Medical Records, EHR, Health IT, Biotech, Pharmacogenomics, Helicos, Sequencing

Desmond Tutu Presents e-Health Call to Action – Learn from the mistakes of the US

One of the messages coming from the meeting is that they believe they can learn from the mistake made in the US, and there were representatives from the US at the meeting. Karl Brown believes it might be easier to achieve interoperability in developing...

Published Mon, Nov 11 2008 11:04 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Other Items of Interest, EMR, microsoft, Medical Records, EHR, Common User Interface, Interoperability, User Interface, Medical Software, Templates, ehealth, healthcare standards, Desmond Tutu

Common User Interface – Update and walk through video

Another updated video on the interface, again it would be nice to have the same visuals at every hospital and perhaps doctor’s offices with the existing programs still running in the background, only the user interface would need to change. This...

Published Wed, Nov 11 2008 5:07 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Microsoft/Windows News, EMR, microsoft, Medical Records, EHR, Common User Interface, HHS, User Interface, Medical Software, Templates

Edwards Hospital in Chicago to Supply Practice management and EHR software for physicians

One more hospital provided integrated services for physicians on staff and 40 with practice management software from the hospital. Edward Health Service Corporation Selects Allscripts Electronic Health Record and Practice Management CHICAGO and...

Published Tue, Nov 11 2008 6:37 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, EMR, Medical Records, EHR, integration, Allscripts, Practice Management

Cerner Incorporates Genomics Into Electronic Medical Records

They have established a coding vocabulary for genetic test results called CBO, or Clinical Bioinformatics Ontology . Genetic test results are associated with the concepts from the CBO, whereas a traditional observation like a pulse or blood pressure...

Published Sat, Nov 11 2008 2:32 AM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Pharma/FDA News, Other Items of Interest, EMR, Genomics, Medical Records, EHR, Cerner, vocabulary, codes

EHRs need Standard Templates – So Let’s Look at the Common User Interface Project, a lot of the work is already in progress and partially completed

If you have read this blog long enough, there are multiple posts about The Common User Interface, an open source project from Microsoft that would in fact have the capabilities to present the same set of templates, data entry screens, etc. at all hospitals...

Published Fri, Nov 11 2008 4:00 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, EMR, microsoft, Medical Records, EHR, Common User Interface, HHS, User Interface, Medical Software, Templates

Speech Recognition as “Cool Technology of the Week”

Good article from Dr. Halamka at Beth Israel Medical Center/Harvard in Boston, talking about the positives and money saved by using speech recognition. One other item to mention here from my side of the coin, it makes creating blog entries a lot...

Published Fri, Nov 11 2008 11:43 AM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Other Items of Interest, EMR, Medical Records, EHR, healthcare IT, Harvard Medical School, Nuance, Beth Israel Deaconess of Boston, Speech Recognition, EScription, BIDMC, John Halamka

Lakeland Regional Health System Integrating to Connect Hospital Systems to EMRs of 70 Affiliated Physicians

Physician practices challenged the organization to electronically deliver clinical results directly into its soon-to-be-installed EMR system. This move was actually challenged and brought about by the physicians who were already using electronic...

Published Wed, Nov 11 2008 12:22 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, EMR, Hospital, Medical Records, EHR, HL7, HIPAA, integration, Novo

San Diego IPA adds Allscripts practice management software to create RHIO interchange

We all read the many articles about Kaiser and how they have successfully connected their locations and patient records, well that certainly presents a challenge to those concerns who compete and also want to provide the same or similar type of recordkeeping...

Published Tue, Nov 11 2008 11:02 AM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, EMR, healthcare, Medical Records, EHR, Kaiser Permanente, integration, Allscripts, Misys, IPA, CahRHIO, information interchange, RHIO

Tufts Medical Center In Boston to Subsidize EHRs

One more hospital is subsidizing the cost of ambulatory records to integrate with the hospital system. No mention of how much of the cost will be carried by the hospital. In the related reading section below, read about how the records reach...

Published Mon, Nov 11 2008 11:26 AM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, EMR, Hospital, healthcare, Medical Records, EHR, Physicians, Eclinical Works

The Health Cloud – Personal Health Records

This is a great abstract discussing electronic medical records. Dr. Tim Sturgill, an emergency room physician put this together, as the emergency room MD would be at the top of the list to want credible patient records, as some patients may only...

Published Mon, Nov 11 2008 1:40 AM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Other Items of Interest, EMR, healthcare, Medical Records, EHR, PHR, personal heatlh records, health cloud

Information on E-Prescribing – Read Up

Sure Scripts has a wealth of information available and I have summarized a portion of some of the important facts here. You can also use .png?imgmax=800" width="197" height="126" alt="" /> the interactive map found here to see which pharmacies participate...

Published Sun, Nov 11 2008 4:36 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Insurance, EMR, healthcare, Medical Records, EHR, PHR, e-prescribing, FDA, Pharmacies, DEA, Sure Scripts, federal disasters, Emergency medicine, ICER.org

NextGen Healthcare Information Systems, Inc.,(Quality Systems) Executes Agreement to Acquire Practice Management Partners

The mergers and buyouts in medical software continue. Practice Management has a portfolio of products related to business intelligence at the practice level and their products are web based. They also have additional services that are also web based...

Published Thu, Oct 10 2008 1:03 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Other Items of Interest, EMR, healthcare, Medical Records, EHR, integration, Hospital Records, NextGen, Quality Systems

How electronic records reach your doctor – Integrated through the Hospitals

Dana Blankenhorn of ZDNet does a nice write up here on his visit to the physician and yes, us “geeks” find our way there too We are probably some of the most curious patients to arrive, as we are looking constantly to see what technology is being...

Published Wed, Oct 10 2008 4:01 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Other Items of Interest, Microsoft/Windows News, EMR, Hospital, healthcare, microsoft, Medical Records, EHR, McKesson, Common User Interface, HealthVault, integration, Amalga, Stark Law, NextGen, ZDNet Healthcare

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