One of the doctor’s we work with forwarded us this neat article from the Economist that has a good overview of HIT across the globe. Its pretty similar to a bunch of stories that have been in the paper lately, except for this great little graph of EHR dollars over the years. Its the strongest [...]

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 [...]

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Phil Miller is a Professor of Biostatistics at Washington University School of Medicine who has been involved in large, multi-site NIH sponsored clinical trials. He teaches courses in epidemiology, biostatistics, and research design and is also the leader of the Research and Design Group at the Institute for Clinical and Translational Sciences (ICTS) at Washington [...]

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 [...]

NextGen is full of pretty awesome announcements this week, including a new Subscription based SaaS (Software as a Service) Delivery Model. Here are some of the details:

$599/month/provider for either the NextGen EPM or the EHR/EMR
$799/month/provider for both the NextGen EPM & EHR/EMR
They provide hosting & maintenance
3M CPT4/ICD9 coding content is provided
Access to NextMD, NextGen’s PHR
Set-up, [...]

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 [...]