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 [...]

Since the government will be posting the name of providers on a website that use an EHR as part of the HITECH stimulus package, I was thinking about what a patient would think of meaningful use should be. Here is what I think meaningful use should be as a patient, not someone involved in the [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

“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 [...]

NextGen changed their website a while ago to say that they were changing their product name from EMR to EHR to more accurately reflect what the product truly is. Today they sent out the announcement in their What’s Next Newsletter with their reasoning:
As recently defined by the National Alliance for Health Information Technology (NAHIT), an [...]

So this post probably isn’t the best one for a consultant to write but I’ve been thinking about things since Practice Fusion’s Dr. Robert Rowley (their Chief Medical Officer) has replied to our posts and there are quite a few things I like about this company and the way they do things. I haven’t used [...]

If a picture is worth a thousand words, a video should be worth ten thousand.
We’ve posted some recent blogs about EMR 2.0 (here and here) outlining what makes an EMR and EMR 2.0. But we haven’t spent much time explaining why EMR 2.0’s are needed and what the benefits are to healthcare provides and patients. [...]

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 [...]

So with Google Health & Microsoft HealthVault large, respectable software companies are now getting into the Personal Health Record business. Can I just saw how nice it is to have companies like these these paying attention to health care? So I have an account for both, but I hate to say that I just don’t [...]