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Epic Wins 3 CCHIT Certifications – Medical Records

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...

Posted to 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

Human Health Records on a Chip Not doing so well – Online Personal Health Records could be a better option - add a Kiosk in the Emergency Room

When this technology came out, there were many questions about privacy, and the chip needs to have a facility with a “chip reader” as well, so to get everything going it does take some coordination. In the meantime, the PHR movement is moving quickly in some real positive directions as there is...

Posted to The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck on 10-24-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Other Items of Interest, healthcare, Medical Records, Health IT, PHR, Google, Personal Health Records, HealthVault, Kaiser Permanente, Kiosk, Health, Emergency Room, ER, Verichip

Kaiser Permanente Adds New Online Health Tools for Chronic Conditions – Personal Health Records with more added value

More news on Personal Health Records from Kaiser (PHR). According to this press release, patients are having some real success with using the online tools to manage chronic care conditions. Soon, the records will have the capability to be exported to Microsoft HealthVault. The HealthVault...

Posted to The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck on 10-24-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Other Items of Interest, Microsoft/Windows News, PHR, Personal Health Records, HealthVault, Kaiser Permanente, email physicians, online appointments

Kaiser Permanente Has Most Hospitals in Nation With Inpatient Electronic Health Record

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...

Posted to 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

Tenet subsidiary announces closing of Irvine Regional Hospital – Orange County, CA

In a related story from Forbes, as soon as the announcement was made, Tenet stocks rose. I guess if you are a hospital chain, it appears closing a hospital will raise the stock? Investors must see this as an opportunity for Tenet to make more money. Being local to Orange County, it is a...

Posted to The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck on 10-08-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, Other Items of Interest, healthcare, Hospitals, Kaiser Permanente, Orange County, Stocks, Investments, http://www.bizjournals.com/losangeles/stories/2008/10/06/daily20.html

Digital divide - Electronic Medical Records

Both the VA and Kaiser have been 2 of the real success stories with electronic medical records, and as we all read in the press while the transitioning was taking place, it was not a smooth road, there are bumps with implementing any medical records system, but the one thing the doctors had going at...

Posted to The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck on 09-01-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Other Items of Interest, EMR, Medical Records, EHR, VA, Kaiser Permanente

Kaiser and Stanford get $3.89M to study heart disease with linked medical records - California

If you belong to Kaiser in northern California, Stanford Medical will now be able to see your medical records for the purpose of studying heart disease. It doesn't say if the records will be anonimized or not. Stanford will have access to 3.3 million records to study what is working and...

Posted to The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck on 08-12-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Other Items of Interest, Medical Records, Heart Disease, Grants, Kaiser Permanente, Stanford University