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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The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck
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
We all read the many articles about Kaiser and how they have successfully connected their locations and patient records, well that certainly presents a challenge to those concerns who compete and also want to provide the same or similar type of recordkeeping and services. This group has chosen to make...
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The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck
on 11-04-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, EMR, healthcare, Medical Records, EHR, Kaiser Permanente, integration, Allscripts, Misys, IPA, CahRHIO, information interchange, RHIO
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 Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck
on 10-02-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, EMR, Hospital, Medical Records, EHR, HL7, HIPAA, Kaiser Permanente, integration, Exempla
A picture is worth 1000 words. I have recently had some conversations with health care clinicians, administrators, etc. about the Personal health records of Google and Microsoft Health Vault and this shows clearly how Beth Israel Deaconess has integrated the system with their own internal system...
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The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck
on 09-03-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Pharma/FDA News, Microsoft/Windows News, healthcare, microsoft, Medical Records, PHR, Personal Health Records, Kaiser Permanente, integration, Hosptial, Healthvaut, Beth Israel Deaconess of Boston