HIMSS09 was action-packed and full of excitement. Despite organizations hurting from the economy, there was a sense of hope and rejuvenation.
The debate over EHRs seems to have been decided. The tone of the conference was “If you aren’t on an EHR now, you’re behind the times and better get on one as soon as absolutely [...]

For the final education session of HIMSS09, I attended a session entitled “Developing a Plan to Operationalize the Results of the Economic Stimulus”. The session was led by Bruce Fried and Lauren Mack, both health care attorneys with Sonnenschein.
Fried started off by stating that the current ARRA/HITECH monies are just a down payment and he [...]

The fourth and final day of HIMSS09. This morning’s keynote speaker was former Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan. I assume HIMSS booked Greenspan well before the current economic crisis. His bio in the conference guide reads like a thesis on the causes of the crisis:
Dr. Greenspan has advised leaders across the political spectrum as he called [...]

For the afternoon session, I attended a session on creating EHR networks for Community Health Centers. While the discussion was intended to be directed at CHCs, the information discussed is applicable to any practice type. Julie V. Murchinson, MBA, the Executive Director of Mannatt Healthcare Solutions compared the scope of a vendor/clinic model versus a [...]

John Halamka, CIO of Harvard Business School and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (plus a myriad of other titles) and author of the popular Life as a Healthcare CIO blog, lead an interesting session on HIE and the ARRA/HITECH stimulus. There is about $2 billion available for HIE in the stimulus with much of the [...]

I don’t know if it’s the size of the conference hall, the constant shuttling back and forth to the hotels, or the length of the conference, but I am exhausted! I don’t mean this as a criticism of HIMSS at all, but more of a forewarning for any snippy posts that come up today.
This morning [...]

The second afternoon session was the best one I’ve attended so far. A three person panel consisting of an attorney, physician and EHR vendor discussed the economic stimulus from a private practice perspective.
Up first was the attorney, Ed Shays (whose name I might be unfortunately misspelling), who provided a great overview of the key terms [...]

The afternoon started off with a session to learn about how CHCs can receive maximum benefit from the ARRA / HITECH Stimulus. We work with a number of CHCs and they have always struggled to stay alive, let alone pay for an EHR. We’re excited that the stimulus provides so many opportunities for CHCs.
The first [...]

So for the AllScripts HIE, ditto everything I said for GE! The Allscripts GUI and flow is pretty much the same as GE, but a little prettier.
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TempDev offers shared cost models for our clients whereby a group of clients can ask for some custom development and we, in turn, distribute the development costs amongst the clients allowing them to achieve economies of scale. This is of particular interest to our community health center clients as they have some very specific needs, [...]