We’ve long had a corporate crush on Practice Fusion – that spunky, SaaS EHR that’s also a built in HIE. You know; the free one? Practice Fusion has been the way of the future for years now, but last Wednesday the future arrived.
Practice Fusion has announced an investment by salesforce.com, an investment which the San [...]

Over the past year, I’ve heard the frequent comment that banks successfully deployed interoperability over 10 years ago, but the healthcare industry lags far behind. Often the comment is followed up with a statement that we can go to any bank and they can instantly access our financial information, but each physician I go to [...]

One of the hottest blog topics of late 2008 / early 2009 has been the cries of smaller EHR vendors that innovation is stifled by large EHR vendors and CCHIT. I’ll agree that some aspects of CCHIT are disconcerting, particularly the focus on ratcheting up functionality requirements that are largely irrelevant to the goals of [...]

For the second afternoon session, I was excited to attending a session entitled “Integration of a Comprehensive Medical and Dental EMR System with Microsoft HealthVault Using Microsoft Silverlight and Microsoft Health Common User Interface”. I didn’t realize, however, that I was walking into a commercial for ushealthrecord. After getting past my initial frustration, I was [...]

The next presenter was Ted Corbett from Seattle Childrens’ Hospital who presented on using Amalga to tie disparate systems together. At Seattle Childrens’, no one system holds information for all systems so it’s not possible to review data from more than one system at a time (eg patient satisfaction versus number of bed changes). Their [...]

Now that the industry keyword has changed from EMR to EHR, cube dwellers across the country are groaning ever time MS Word auto-corrects EHR to HER. Its pretty easily to end this once and for all.
The next time Word auto-correct, quickly hover over HER and select the lightening bolt. From there, you can select “Stop [...]

Recently a friend asked my opinion on CCHIT with consideration to innovative products and whether there may actually be the touted perception of inclusion/exclusion.  My opinion….there’s NO favoring going on.  The prospect of certification should be broken into 2 areas:  1). the technology and function of it; and 2). the business aspect.
I’m fortunate enough to be familiar [...]

TempDev has been a leader in EHR interoperability for years, through our relationships with Midmark and McKesson and our implementation of interfaces between EHRs and labs, radiology, hospitals, devices, registries, PHRs, and practice management systems. As EHRs become more established and the “meaningful use” provision of the HITECH stimulus begins to take effect, there is [...]

If a picture is worth a thousand words, a video should be worth ten thousand.
We’ve posted some recent blogs about EMR 2.0 (here and here) outlining what makes an EMR and EMR 2.0. But we haven’t spent much time explaining why EMR 2.0’s are needed and what the benefits are to healthcare provides and patients. [...]

The other day, I posted a guest blog by Dr. Robert Rowley, Chief Medical Officer for Practice Fusion. In his posting, Dr. Rowley explains that Practice Fusion is approaching “EMR 2.0″ while NextGen and other client-server based applications are “dinosaurs”. While I completely agree with Dr. Rowley’s assertion that EMRs must evolve from stand-alone systems [...]