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 [...]

A couple of nights ago I tried to create a Google Health PHR and today I’m going to work on a HealthVault one. So far it’s like using Notepad vs. Word 2007. It completely feels like night and day. This may get long but I’m just going to walk write as I work through my [...]

A few days ago Dr. Robert Rowley, Chief Medical Officer at Practice Fusion, posted a comment on my entry about NextGen renaming their product from EHR to EMR. I asked Dr. Rowley if he would be interested in writing a guest blog comparing Practice Fusion’s business model to that being utilized by NextGen. He provided [...]

On the 24th, I posted about a group whose plan for 7.7 is to upgrade very aggressively. However, one of the other groups we’re working with has much more cautious plans for 7.7. They’re an independent practice association that’s acting like a VAR (value added reseller) for their contracted practices and passing along highly discounted [...]

So I’m working on creating a Google Health PHR because I feel like I should jump on the PHR bandwagon being in this industry and as I work on creating mine I’m going to provide my feedback.

I imported my prescriptions from Medco which I loved that I had the option to do. However it didn’t [...]

Now that KBM 7.7 has been released, groups are facing a tough decision if and when they want to take on the resource intensive process of upgrading their customized KBMs.
One of the groups we’re working with has a very aggressive roll out plan. They’re planning to roll out every specialty (and they have them all) [...]

The life of an EMR developer can be thankless! Any appreciation is fleeting as there is always some new procedure, regulation, or workflow change that must be urgently integrated. So I always coach developers to savor their successes and enjoy the hugs when they get them (yes, TempDev has a policy that we must get [...]

Oh, the places our NextGen jobs take us!
I am currently getting ready to go back to jail for the sixth time in two days… this time at midnight! What’s my crime? Implementing NextGen in a custody health setting.
Custody is an entirely different setting for implementing NextGen. The jail system is part outpatient, in the form [...]

In this past weekend’s radio address, President-elect Obama discussed his extensive plans for stimulating the economy including significant investment in EMRs:
In addition to connecting our libraries and schools to the internet, we must also ensure that our hospitals are connected to each other through the internet. That is why the economic recovery plan I’m proposing [...]