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I went to the Interoperability Showcase to see a demo of GE’s Health Information Exchange solution and a bit of Centricity. GE is using Sun/Seebeyond for their patient mapping logic, which is a great tool. They demonstrated how Continuity of Care Document (CCDs) can be pulled down from the HIE and the imported into Centricity. [...]

A good friend and mentor was known for sitting patiently during long, contentious meetings before finally asking “What problem are we trying to solve?” After receiving blank stares, she would respond with “I think we’re getting ahead of ourselves. Let’s define the problem before we attempt to solve it.”
I consistently find problem definition to be [...]

“Change”…..a term we experienced every day during last year’s election.  Now the rubber hits the road and with the infusion of funding into Health IT that change has to be successful if we want to control our national healthcare costs.
Who hasn’t spent the last several weeks reading the HITECH ACT, meeting with various stakeholders to [...]

John Lynn at EMR and HIPAA wrote a great article about choosing EHR/EMR Consultants: Does Your EHR Consultant Have Your Best Interest in Mind? I believe people who are thinking about choosing a consultant, should take a couple of moments to read it. One of the reasons I love this article is because it re-affirms [...]

We’ve posted several times recently about Obama’s EHR stimulus, now called HITECH, but we’ve only looked at the stimulus from the Medicare perspective. It turns out that even more money, potentially $65,000 per provider, may be available from Medicaid for qualifying safety net providers. Unfortunately, the requirements are a legislative mess, so here’s a quick [...]

So being a consultant I’m very passionate about the topic of our series on the Good, Bad, and Ugly of the consultant community. I have to say that after cleaning up “the ugly” as a full time employee and as a consultant, it makes me even more fired up. I’m excited to contribute to John’s [...]

So tonight as I was celebrating my husband’s birthday at Dave and Buster’s, I was using Twitter to see who was winning the Golden Globes on their Twitter Page. Twitter as Wikipedia defines it is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that allows its users to send and read other users’ updates (otherwise known [...]

As continuation of our series on the Good, Bad, and Ugly of the consultant community, we’ll answer another of John’s questions: Does unbiased consultant exist?
As a consultant, the answer is clearly no! Every consultant will have experience with certain EMRs, maybe even partnerships with specific EMR companies, and will consciously or sub-consciously drive you to [...]

John over at the EMR and HIPAA blog recently asked for feedback on the good, bad, and ugly of EMR consultants. Laura and I are starting a series of post on this topic and will be exploring the consulting world from both a participant and client perspective.
First and foremost, most consultants in the EMR realm [...]