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...
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
In this interview article McKesson discusses visualization and showing the physicians the information they that need to know at the point of decision making at the point of care. The EHR will have to support genetic knowledge. They are working with Proventys to create an integrated product...
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on 10-09-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Pharma/FDA News, personalized medicine, healthcare, Medical Records, EHR, McKesson, Hospitals, Pharmacogenomics, Horizon
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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on 09-18-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, EMR, EHR, Physicians, Hospitals, Budgets, Desperate Hosptials, Money, Medical Records Venture Capitalists
This is a continuing post about "desperate hospitals" that I started last week. In light of the recent Medicare rules, audits, etc. some hospitals are just not making it. 50% of the hospitals in the country border on insolvency. Century City Hospital is not by any means in...
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The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck
on 08-22-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Other Items of Interest, EMR, healthcare, Medical Records, EHR, Hospitals, bankruptcy, Chapter 11, Open Vista, Chapter 7