January 2010 - EMR and HIPAA

EMR and HIPAA Readers

A lot of people have been asking me lately about the readership of EMR and HIPAA. In a few months, I’d like to do a full survey to get some feedback from the readers of EMR and HIPAA. Until then, I thought I’d just do a quick poll to get an...

Published Sun, Jan 31 2010 11:31 AM by EMR and HIPAA

Q&A: ARRA EMR Stimulus Money for Non Medicare Providers

EMR and HIPAA Reader Submitted Question: Is there a way for a provider to get stimulus money for EMR if not currently a Medicare provider? Besides Medicare, there is also stimulus money available through Medicaid. In fact, Medicaid has more money per...

Published Fri, Jan 29 2010 11:07 AM by EMR and HIPAA

Mass Senate Seat and EMR Reform

SRSsoft, an EMR vendor, put out an interesting press release putting the lost democratic senate seat in Massachusetts with healthcare reform and EHR adoption. Here’s a quote from the press release: “The question is not whether we need healthcare...

Published Thu, Jan 28 2010 1:17 PM by EMR and EHR

Reasons for Adopting an EHR

I’m still a little bit partial to my list of EMR benefits which is pretty specific in its description of the possible benefits of an EMR. However, today in an EMR stimulus webinar they listed the following reasons for adopting an EHR: Financial...

Published Thu, Jan 28 2010 11:11 AM by EMR and HIPAA

Q&A: ARRA Stimulus Money for Already Installed EMR

EMR and HIPAA Reader Submitted Question: Can you get ARRA stimulus money for systems already installed? Thank you. The simple answer is YES! The longer answer is that ARRA makes no differentiation between those that have previously installed an EMR, are...

Published Wed, Jan 27 2010 12:25 PM by EMR and HIPAA

David Blumenthal on Meaningful Use, Nationwide Health Information Network and CCHIT

I just found this really nice interview by InformationWeek with David Blumenthal, Health IT Czar. Here are a few snippets of what David Blumenthal said with my own commentary in italics. Congress set very ambitious goals for the HITECH legislation. The...

Published Wed, Jan 27 2010 11:38 AM by EMR and EHR

EMR and HIPAA Sponsor Updates

It’s been a little while since I thanked the companies that sponsor EMR and HIPAA. Please check out the various vendors that support the writing I do on this site. Plus, check the bottom of this post for some other methods of advertising an EMR...

Published Tue, Jan 26 2010 11:08 AM by EMR and HIPAA

Another Meaningful Use Webcast

These webcasts have been popping up all over the place. It’s really quite amazing. You could make it a full time career just attending various webcasts on the EMR stimulus and meaningful use. Well, I’ve seen a ton of them, but this one by...

Published Mon, Jan 25 2010 10:01 PM by EMR and EHR

Large EMR Vendor Bias Towards EMR Stimulus

One thing I’m starting to notice is that it seems that ALL of the large EMR vendors are strong proponents of the EMR stimulus. All but a couple of the comments I’ve found from large EMR vendors laud praise upon the HITECH act. Listening to...

Published Mon, Jan 25 2010 11:39 AM by EMR and HIPAA

Finding the Right Managed IT Service Provider

There’s been a lot of interest in my previous post about Managed IT Services versus Break and Fix IT services. In fact, you should read not only my post, but also some of the well done comments on that post as well. A nice discussion has taken place...

Published Sat, Jan 23 2010 11:08 AM by EMR and HIPAA

CCHIT Responds to Booz Allen Hamilton EHR Certification Contract with NIST

CCHIT’s Mark Leavitt has published his analysis of the $400,000 contract that NIST awared to Booz Allen Hamilton to develop a framework for electronic health record certification (see certified EHR). Honestly, it seems that Mark’s as confused...

Published Sat, Jan 23 2010 3:31 AM by EMR and EHR

EMR Benefit You Wouldn’t Expect

Today, I decided that I’d ask people to share a benefit they’ve received from an EMR (or seen received if you’re an EMR vendor) that you didn’t expect to happen when you implemented an EMR. I’ll start off with one unexpected...

Published Fri, Jan 22 2010 11:46 AM by EMR and HIPAA

Blogger-Twitter Meetup at HIMSS Annual Conference

I’m getting very excited about the HIMSS Annual Conference. As someone who writes as much as I do about healthcare IT, I think that going to the HIMSS conference is going to be like a little kid in a candy store. I could be wrong, but I think it’s...

Published Thu, Jan 21 2010 11:05 AM by EMR and HIPAA

Allscripts EMR Profits

I found this about a week ago and found it really really interesting. Here’s the numbers for the EMR behemoth Allscripts per HIT News: The company [Allscripts] made $15.8 million in net income for the quarter, turning around a $6 million loss for...

Published Wed, Jan 20 2010 1:41 PM by EMR and EHR

Managed IT Services vs Break and Fix Model

There are a couple approaches to handling your IT support in a medical office. The first method is called the break and fix model. As can probably be inferred, this model is where you only call for IT support when something breaks. For example, your computer...

Published Wed, Jan 20 2010 11:41 AM by EMR and HIPAA