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. When you look at the career page of...
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We have now moved beyond “meaningful use” and in this case are looking at “meaningful money” of sorts. This is a type of decision that many healthcare companies look at today,do we keep adding on or do we rip out and start from scratch, and money is the top influencer in this case for sure. ...
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This is a a good thing actually and good that this is in place. Most data systems have features as such to keep data from corrupting. When we are working at such fast paces today, stuff happens and sometimes even with the best of audit trails we may never get to the exact root and I have...
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Yesterday I had the opportunity to attend the event as a blogger and had hoped to return again today for round 2 and some additional insight. I do have to say that the agenda is not at all like your normal convention and some of the brightest and intellectual individuals in Health IT were an attendance...
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I found the discussion area in here a bit interesting. Having written an EMR several years ago myself I think can comment a bit here. One of the comments that was bothersome to me was the inability to check on a class of drug and that staff needed to go through all records to find a drug...
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CBS did a very good in depth report here and one of the most interesting portions is the actual look at a Kaiser facility in Santa Clara, showing some real time use and answering some questions on how and why it works. Yes they made one huge investment and I remember all the information on the...
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Today I had the opportunity to talk with Dr. James Leo, Associate Chief Medical Officer of LBMMC, (Long Beach Memorial Medical Center), to discuss the hospital’s recent EMR/EHR adoption. Hopefully the information here may add some insight into how other hospital CMOs and CIOs around the country can work...
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