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Recently I posted about the Common User Interface from Microsoft and I spoke with a developer in New Zealand, Synapse, who has done some integration work with the interface. Graham Chiu of Synapse, is a physician as well as a developer so he is one busy person and nice to see a physician...
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One more hospital making the transition. Also the rural and surrounding areas will be connected to the same system to enter chart information from their locations as well. The new system from Epic replaces older technology at Mercy called Meditech that only allowed for a partial electronic...
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Why? They have money and subsidize the physicians. BD “The hurdle for most smaller physician practices has been the upfront cost,” said Dan Peterson, who oversees ProHealth Care’s EHR Advantage project. ProHealth will lease the software for its electronic health records system to doctors...
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For those of you who would like to follow our progress, this recent write up in Medical Economics may be of interest: http://medicaleconomics.modernmedicine.com/memag/Health+Information+Technology%3A+Electronic+Health+Records+%28EHRs%29+%2F+Electronic+Medical+Records+%28EMRs%29/EHRs-Fla-tech-company...
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As the article states the use of the common standard of HL7 is going to be the solution, so some standards really work well and HL7 has been around for quite a while now and is coming in to focus. Some existing hospitals with Eclipsys might be in a better position to help subsidize physicians and...
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As we have all heard in the certification processes for medical records, the goals to achieve are getting a little tougher, just like designing the software is. Also note the cost of the transaction, 10k, so it is not inexpensive and the EHR software companies have to not only prepare, but bankroll...
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I finally had time to take a look around in detail at some of the new features. The one that is very simple for anyone is the $9.00 a year fax service. This is neat as you get a dedicated fax number that you can give to anyone to send a fax, and the document will be found in your HealthVault Account...
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Three hospitals in the system preparing to integrate and connect with Kaiser facilities, as they will more than likely be seeing a few of their patients. This process is being done through a 3rd party offering HL7 and other transformations such as text/HL7. This is taking 2 different medical...
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The comment below from a vendor is interesting, as he comments on the fact that a physician can make an extra $125,000 in 5 years, well some family care practice doctors today in California would like to just be making that in one year, as all the recent contracts with insurance companies are getting...
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Medical Records and more integration in the chart, NextGen has recently entered in to an agreement to work with Zynx to bring this to the point of care level, in other words alerts and information incorporated with the EHR software to avoid wasting time with costly lookups in having to leave the window...