Every few months, a debate over the consequences—positive, negative, neutral—of health information technology (HIT) use is waged by academics, doctors, vendors, and policymakers. The blogo-Op-Ed-twitter universe gets bombarded with opinions and data that...
A very positive conversation took place at yesterday’s HIT Policy Committee meeting [...]
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The next level of value added could be detecting patient non-adherence, treatment conflicts, or medication reconciliation. You also have your RcopiaAC product that allows hospitals to get a full medication history from outside their four walls. Other than patient convenience, what do you see as the next...
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Tell me about yourself and about DrFirst. I started in healthcare in the pharmacy benefits management industry. I joined PCS Health Systems in the early ‘90s and spent about 10 years there, largely in product management. I worked in developing what...
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If you are trying to determine right now if you would meet the criteria needed for attestation, CMS has added a handy calculator to their site. http://www.cms.gov/apps/ehr/meaningful-use-core-measures-professionals.aspx Remember that to get paid for Medicaid for the first year, you do not need to achieve...
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NextGen Healthcare Information Systems, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Quality Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: QSII) and a leading provider of healthcare information systems and connectivity solutions, today announced that Northeast Valley Health Corporation (NEVHC) and Community Health Center Network (CHCN...
Why? Take a look at all the medical record systems that are out there today and that gives one large clue at to why the responses will vary tremendously . This as I read it is targeted at the ambulatory use of medical records. Doctors as a whole when questioned I am guessing will want...
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The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck
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Fri, Feb 11 2011
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Patrick Soon-Shiong M.D. is the Los Angeles billionaire investor who has scooped up the company. Overall the product is a good thing as far as the reminder system and keep folks on track. My only concerns is the privacy factors and the data that it creates for sale. In today’s world...
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Fri, Feb 4 2011
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By next month all the emergency room physicians will have a scribe at their service with entering information into a lap top or a tablet computer. The article below states that across the country over 200 hospital emergency rooms are using scribes. There are 3 big companies who provide them...
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Thu, Jan 27 2011
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There’s a lot of money in electronic medical records and when you look at the numbers, I wonder where the line is actually drawn and if this includes payer services too? It’s too soon to see what was actually spent last year in 2010 and the projections are only as good as the economy will let it...
The concept of the pill bottle is good and can be helpful but the side of all of this are the profits that it creates for Health IT companies to sell your data. It is what it is. The Colbert Report did a funny video on the Glow Caps a while back too, funny. The Colbert Report Takes...
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Tue, Jan 4 2011
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This is a good deal if in fact it is available for use for the government and not outsourced to contractors as when you read the news , they are not making any waves when handling claims for Medicare in finding fraud as fraudulent claims as well as legitimate claims all add up to transaction fees, the...
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Thu, Dec 16 2010
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Back in January of this year HeatlhVault was announced and now it looks like it is here for all to partake and get started. You can check out the link and there’s a bit about my chat with a German professor who wrote an EMR too, so we talked a lot. Siemens AG is a licensee of Microsoft HealthVault...
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Fri, Nov 19 2010
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