With collaborating with Mayo Clinic here, this gives an example of how “branding” of methodologies and information technologies serve to create additional income from the licensing of such by incorporating information from Mayo as an example to include decision making support software at the point of...
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on 11-18-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Other Items of Interest, Hospital, healthcare, Medical Records, EHR, Centricity, integration, GE Healthcare, hospital branding
Personalized Medicine will create many answers and solutions in healthcare, but will we have the money to afford it? I post quite a bit about genomics and personalized medicine on the blog here and the one thing it has in common with the rest of healthcare is cost. The success of personalized...
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on 11-14-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Insurance, Other Items of Interest, personalized medicine, healthcare, Medical Records, FDA, integration, CMS, Leavitt
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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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
The software receives demographics, lab results, medication and allergy lists, and height and weight data and sends detailed prescribing and nurse note information, as well as individual drug administrations. The software can also maintain complete medical charts. All the the software requires...
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on 11-03-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Other Items of Interest, Medical Records, Cancer, Business Intelligence, software, integration, Chemotherapy, Treatment plans
The mergers and buyouts in medical software continue. Practice Management has a portfolio of products related to business intelligence at the practice level and their products are web based. They also have additional services that are also web based and offer a monthly fee to subscribe, thus the...
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on 10-16-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Other Items of Interest, EMR, healthcare, Medical Records, EHR, integration, Hospital Records, NextGen, Quality Systems
Dana Blankenhorn of ZDNet does a nice write up here on his visit to the physician and yes, us “geeks” find our way there too We are probably some of the most curious patients to arrive, as we are looking constantly to see what technology is being used in the medical offices, as it is a known fact...
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on 10-15-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Other Items of Interest, Microsoft/Windows News, EMR, Hospital, healthcare, microsoft, Medical Records, EHR, McKesson, Common User Interface, HealthVault, integration, Amalga, Stark Law, NextGen, ZDNet Healthcare
Medical records is not the only area where integration is taking place today, same for genomics. With this example, you have desktop and web software communicating. Additional information from the web based product will allow additional information to be accessed via desktop software, much...
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on 10-01-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Other Items of Interest, Genomics, software, integration, Software as a Service, Sequencing