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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

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

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

Scan Hub Cost-Effective Document Scanning

Just a reminder if you are looking for a service that can take all your paper records and scan them to files, Scan Hub does an excellent job and come recommended by some of the electronic medical records companies. Be sure to mention the Medical...

Published Wed, Nov 11 2008 12:56 AM by The Medical Quack

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

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

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

Is Certification on it’s way for digital data entry in Healthcare?

There are a couple sites listed here and now as medical records are on the move going digital, it could be a pre-requisite someday soon to have be certified to work with digital data. The certification process is open to all applicants, physicians, medical...

Published Wed, Oct 10 2008 2:41 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Other Items of Interest, EMR, Physician, healthcare, Medical Records, EHR, PHR, medical assistant, digital Notes

New York and New Jersey Residents – Access to Telemedicine with Swift MD

The service states that you are usually connected to a physician within 30 minutes of either a phone call or logging on to the computer to setup a consultation. Charges are $59.00 for a consult. You do need to establish an account before...

Published Sun, Oct 10 2008 2:27 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Insurance, Other Items of Interest, EMR, Physician, healthcare, microsoft, Medical Records, EHR, PHR, Google, Google Health, Telemedicine, HealthVault, consultations, SwiftMD

Hoag Hospital Selects eClinicalWorks for Its EHR Subsidy Program- Newport Beach, CA

This is probably one of the sweetest subsidized arrangements with 60% of the cost being absorbed by the hospital, which is by the way one of the best in Orange County and I have worked on fundraisers for the hospital in the past. Doctors choosing...

Published Tue, Oct 10 2008 7:18 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Other Items of Interest, EMR, Hospital, Medical Records, EHR, Patient, Orange County, Stark Law, Healtcare, Hoag Hospital, integrated healthcare, Eclinical Works

Common User Interface – EHR Development Work in Progress

Recently I posted about the Common User Interface from Microsoft and I spoke with a developer in New Zealand, Synapse, who has done some integration work with the interface. Graham Chiu of Synapse, is a physician as well as a developer so ...

Published Tue, Oct 10 2008 11:08 AM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Other Items of Interest, EMR, microsoft, Medical Records, EHR, Common User Interface, Synapse, User Interface, Medical Software

EHR Adoption Remains Off in the Distance – Getting way to complicated

The comment below from a vendor is interesting, as he comments on the fact that a physician can make an extra $125,000 in 5 years, well some family care practice doctors today in California would like to just be making that in one year, as all the recent...

Published Wed, Oct 10 2008 7:41 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, Other Items of Interest, My Commentaries, EMR, Hospital, Medicine, healthcare, Medical Records, EHR, Common User Interface, Charity, CMS, Linux, Donations, bankruptcies

Lehman Bankruptcy Delays Misys-Allscripts Deal

We all know the story on Wall Street, thus now a new source of funds is being sought. As mentioned earlier some EMR/EHR companies have already looked for Venture Capital funding and perhaps this could be an alternative here? BD London-based...

Published Wed, Sep 09 2008 10:45 AM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Other Items of Interest, Need a Laugh, EMR, healthcare, Medical Records, EHR, Venture Capitalists, Wall Street, Lehman

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

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