One more hospital is subsidizing the cost of ambulatory records to integrate with the hospital system. No mention of how much of the cost will be carried by the hospital. In the related reading section below, read about how the records reach physicians, the move is through working with the...
Other hospital systems are working to catch up. Just in the news recently was the pilot exchange of information between the VA and Kaiser. Also the PHR, personal health records, from HealthVault will be due to come on line soon, so patients will be able to transfer the information to their...
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The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck
on 10-21-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Insurance, Other Items of Interest, microsoft, Medical Records, EHR, Physicians, PHR, HL7, VA, Hospitals, Kaiser Permanente, Patients, KP Health Connect, pilot program
This is a pretty in depth view and walk through with the Silverlight 2, soon to be released on the web from current beta status. Pretty dynamic interface and it would be nice if where ever one went, the same or similar interface was presented for use, would sure beat having to learn a new system...
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The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck
on 10-11-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Microsoft/Windows News, Hospital, healthcare, microsoft, Medical Records, EHR, Physicians, Silverlight, PACS, Common User Interface, Code Plex
As I have posted in the past, hospitals today come in various shapes and forms, so doing better financially than others and those who still have the ability are moving forward to work with physicians to extend the electronic medical record to the ambulatory setting (the doctor’s office) to where the...
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The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck
on 09-19-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Other Items of Interest, My Commentaries, Medical Records, EHR, Physicians, PHR, Hospitals, Personal Health Records, Heatlhcare, Stark
Well I think a few words might sum up this entire report, “Show me the money” might be some word echoed by hospitals. I visited a hospital this week and they are keeping the lights and basics going only, why, because we have no budget for the State of California and nursing homes and other businesses...
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The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck
on 09-18-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, EMR, EHR, Physicians, Hospitals, Budgets, Desperate Hosptials, Money, Medical Records Venture Capitalists
This is what the DEA is recommending for their report on E-Prescribing. The portion about confirming the physician’s authority though is not a bad idea at all in view of the Medicare Fraud this week involving “dead doctors” who were still prescribing medical equipment, an audit process that one...
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The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck
on 07-11-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Pharma/FDA News, EMR, drugs, EHR, Physicians, Pharma, Prescriptions, e-prescribing, DEA
This is good....be sure you have Silverlight and visit the "Patient Journey Demonstrator" to interact and see how the User Interface works...Dr. Crounse speaks to the NHS and talks about the unity needed for physicians to be able to use the same interface for entering patient information. Watch...
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The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck
on 05-13-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Other Items of Interest, Microsoft/Windows News, EMR, Medical Records, patient care, EHR, Microsoft Healthcare, Physicians, Patient Safety, WFP, Medical IT, Silverlight