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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
It is a mess today trying to figure out which medical records system might be right for you, and there are many evaluation methods available, but if you are a physician, the evaluation by an IT firm might still leave you in a quandary. It’s about as confusing as trying to look at a line by line comparison...
This would add document management to the established services already sold by HealthPort. The selection of an electronic medical records system appears to be getting a little more confusing as time rolls on. BD Document imaging and management vendor HealthPort has acquired ChartOne...
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...
We all know the story on Wall Street, thus now a new source of funds is being sought. As mentioned earlier some EMR/EHR companies have already looked for Venture Capital funding and perhaps this could be an alternative here? BD London-based Misys plc and Allscripts Inc. in Chicago have postponed...