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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

San Diego IPA adds Allscripts practice management software to create RHIO interchange

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...

Posted to 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

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

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

Playing The HMO Game – Kaiser, Viagra and more…

Now this has become a legal issue with the State of California, can this stand with not covering Viagra? It might appear the jury is going to be out on this one for a while and there are other drugs that come in to play with HMO coverage. What is and what is not covered is becoming a big issue...

Posted to The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck on 09-26-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, Pharma/FDA News, healthcare, Viagra, HMO, Kaiser Permanente, Insider Trading

Department of Defense and VA to Exchange Trauma Data – Medical Records

Interchange and interoperability of medical records continues, this time with the Department of Defense and the VA. Just yesterday I posted about the exchange between Kaiser Permanente and the VA. The VA has also joined Internet 2 to become an active participant. Again, with...

Posted to The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck on 09-26-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, healthcare, EHR, PHR, Health Records, VA, Kaiser Permanente, Social Security, Beth Israel Deaconess of Boston, Department of Defense

Medicine is a Low Tech Business - Clinical Studies still done on paper too!

Hat's off to the Wall Street Journal for mentioning this. Great topic and I'm going to rant and bring a few more details of this entire issue to light here. As any readers of this blog know I am a tech person that work with medical professionals and others to bring this to light and...

Posted to The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck on 09-05-2008
Filed under: Tablet PCs, Medically Related, Technology, Windows Mobile, healthcare, Medical Records, Tablet PC, Google Health, FDA, clinical trials, HealthVault, Kaiser Permanente, Documentation