With collaborating with Mayo Clinic here, this gives an example of how “branding” of methodologies and information technologies serve to create additional income from the licensing of such by incorporating information from Mayo as an example to include decision making support software at the point of...
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on 11-18-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Other Items of Interest, Hospital, healthcare, Medical Records, EHR, Centricity, integration, GE Healthcare, hospital branding
One more hospital provided integrated services for physicians on staff and 40 with practice management software from the hospital. Edward Health Service Corporation Selects Allscripts Electronic Health Record and Practice Management CHICAGO and NAPERVILLE, Ill., Nov. 18 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ ...
For the Stark law to apply to allow hospitals to subsidize medical records for physicians, the software needs to be certified. Epic systems is probably best known for being the system used by Kaiser through out their networks of hospitals and clinics. Yesterday I had posted about PHRs also...
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on 11-12-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Other Items of Interest, healthcare, EHR, PHR, Personal Health Records, Kaiser Permanente, integration, CMS, Epic, CCHIT, Stark Law
Integration is happening all over healthcare with more hospitals jumping on the bandwagon, it saves time and helps stop needless errors that occur when the same information is handled manually. Not only is information being integrated at the personal health records level, but also within the hospitals...
This is a little different and the next phase with using a PHR (personal health record) to bring patients and physicians together in working with chronic disease treatments and plans. The Cleveland Clinic will enroll 400 participants and their physicians and provide devices for the patients to...
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on 11-10-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Microsoft/Windows News, Physician, healthcare, microsoft, Medical Records, EHR, PHR, Health Records, HealthVault, integration, Cleveland Clinic, Microsoft HealthVault, blood pressure monitors, glucose monitors, Chronic disease
Physician practices challenged the organization to electronically deliver clinical results directly into its soon-to-be-installed EMR system. This move was actually challenged and brought about by the physicians who were already using electronic records. The system is not totally complete, but...
The Massachusetts eHealth Collaborative (MAeHC), has to be one of the very early readers of the Medical Quack and I have featured their press releases as they have moved along, and the president was the Keynote speaker. Dr. Halamka is featured all over the blog here as he is such an important voice...
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on 11-04-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Medical Records, EHR, PHR, Google Health, e-prescribing, integration, personal health record, Healthcre, eClinicalWorks