Laura's Twitter Ben's TwitterSo you’ve chosen your EMR and now you’re heading down the implementation road and you come to a fork in the road: one way is to go with the EMR vendor provided workflow and the other is to forge your own path. I am lucky that I have been witness to physician organizations traveling down [...]
Most EHRs include some method of speeding documentation. They range from bringing data from previous encounters forward, documenting preset normals, or using some form of copy and paste. These tools can be literally built up to offer one-click encounters, which would be a huge win to physicians who seem to always have more patients than [...]
A while ago Ben wrote about the EHR’s becoming the New Bubble and today I read news that Walmart is teaming up with Sam’s Club, Dell, and eClinicalWorks to offer a packaged deal for EHRs. They will be offering a packaged deal using their extraordinary buying power to implement an EHR for under $25,000 for [...]
President Obama has one amazing web developer. I mean, I have complete website envy. First, there was BarackObama.com, then Change.gov, followed by WhiteHouse.gov, which spun off Recovery.gov, and now there’s – HealthReform.gov.
HealthReform.gov is run by Health & Human Services to “invite Americans to host and participate in HealthCare Community Discussions to talk about how to [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Governor Kathleen Sebelius was nominated by President Obama yesterday for the HHS Secretary post. With much of the definition of the HITECH Act waiting for the new HHS Secretary’s definition, we’ve all been waiting with baited breath to see who will be put into this important role. Now we’re left asking: What does Kathleen Sebelius [...]