Two days ago, on the 8th of June, the EU Council agreed on a Draft Directive on cross-border care. While this is not the final step for full adoption of this important document, the positive vote of the EU Council is opening a new perspective on cross...
Many EHR and EMR programs already have this functionality built in and years ago I wrote one, so registries are nothing new but are valuable as the reports, with graphic and visuals give the MD or practice a snapshot view on their own statistics. This way they can see how many chronic illness patients...
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I seems the future of CCHI now resides with David Blumenthal as HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius has delegated much of Health IT, especially relative to electronic medical records. For a little recent history, the 2 links below have some updates on what is happening. What is Next on the Agenda ...
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It may be a while before meaningful use gets its full authority and I do hope they included medical devices in the interpretation too. What devices and their reporting data is meaningful? CCHIT has the authority to certify according to the news today until the end of the year. BD The...
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This article makes a lot of sense and I have said somewhat the same in various posts over the last year, and this is where aggregating data is coming in to play, one place to add, edit and read information. One other item that I think has potential is the Common User Interface, so why can’t all...
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What direction and changes might we expect for the Stark Laws? With the present economy it’s good to just see hospitals, no matter who owns them to be able to stay accredited and open in some areas. It will be interesting as well to see how the CCHIT standards hold, change, or what might...
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I have written quite a bit about the topic as well. I do agree we need to have certification that the software will perform as sold, no doubt and that’s like getting the UL approval for electrical devices in short, but the fees and money involved have been the big issue. Smaller EHR/EMR companies...
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This is a great article and good comments from Dr. Bill Crounse at Microsoft. from ABC News. If you read this blog often enough, you will find several posts relating back to his blog, as his posts are informative and he works hard at keeping interested readers up to date , not only here in the...
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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 countries than in the U.S. or Europe. “You...
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