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...
This should come as no surprise as Dr. Halamka has posted about some of this technology in his own blog, which there is a link to on this site and you can also go here to read. Also in the news recently was the availability of another program used called Medpedia from the Medical School. ...
If you are looking for a firm to help with consulting on the medical records business, here's a place to start. I know Dr. Fishman and his staff of experts can be of help in the process. BD Palm Beach Gardens, FL, August 16, 2008 --(PR.com)-- EMRConsultant.com is an online recommendation...
Dispute among the EMR/EHR vendors, and Misys in in the process of merging with Allscripts, so perhaps too much at once? 2 small sales of the rebranded software in the amount of time might give anyone's sales and marketing departments a little discontent. BD Raleigh, N.C.-based Misys...
Congress had paved the way with relaxed Stark rules and regulations for subsidies to take place from the hospital level, but what's still wrong with this picture? It all comes right back around to money. Hospitals are not in a position to spend the money either, so now where do we go...
I use Dragon as well both on my desktop and on my Tablet PC. It certainly makes it easier for me with just integrating with Outlook for email for one example and with the tablet PC and using the dual array microphones, there's no headset required. In addition, Dragon is also the...
Welcome to my new advertising client. Scanhub is a service that every office going from paper to and EHR or EMR could certainly use. One of the real benefits is the simplicity of their pricing. Scanhub has been used by many EMR companies as a partner to help get the initial transition...
As an added benefit, for the participants in the program, special pricing incentives have been included for the group. BD e-MDs, an industry leader in the development and implementation of electronic health records (EHRs), announces it has been selected as a qualified participant to assist...
This week the Congress meeting is in Boston. I referenced in a earlier post that PHR's, (personal health records) are being viewed by Healthcare leadership as the favorite vehicle for interoperability. There is a podcast at the link below. There was a full line up of guest speakers...
The hospitals in San Diego all still share on paper. Technology is not the problem here, it has to do more with incentives, for one why would 2 competing hospitals want to share, and I say this from a business standpoint only, as reflected in the article. The next question is who...