Was EMR to blame in the death of a premature infant? According to an article on InformationWeek.com, a data entry error resulted in a baby receiving 60 times the dose of sodium chloride than the physician had ordered. Apparently the pharmacy compounding system used by the technician is not connected to the main EMR system. […]
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Electronic medical records (EMR) vendors are not only trying to impress potential buyers of their features for meaningful use eligibility, but they are also trying to show that their systems are easy to use for physicians, according to an article on amednews.com. As the market for EMR systems has grown, in large part due to […]
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MPT Podcast 16 – Why Practices Should Implement EHR Sooner Than Later, with guest Chris Mertens, VP of the Personal Systems Group for Hewlett-Packard. This Issue (06:30) Why waiting can cost you money How timing uncertainty could make your project longer than anticipated How proper coding and quicker payments can lead to a faster ROI […]
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The New Change Management We are going to start introducing some concepts which might be a bit alien to the typical medical practice but are well known in the business world. The first one is what is known as change management, and it is particularly important when it comes to the implementation of new technology […]
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Guest Post Selecting an EMR system for your medical practice is a very challenging task due to the rapid development in that field for last few years. According to a research study, there are about 400 EMR vendors alone in the state of Los Angeles and California. Choosing the right EMR vendor is as important […]
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It seems that the importance of physician ‘buy-in’ is a hot topic these days. An article on Healthcare Technology Online, John Santangelo, director of information technology at Cleveland Clinic Florida, describes three different types of physicians as they relate to the success of EHR implementation: Old-school Docs – most set in their way and most […]
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From the EMR Thoughts blog comes an exhaustive list of the top 100 healthcare IT companies by revenue. Here I have listed the top 25: McKesson Technology Solutions Dell Inc. CareFusion Philips Healthcare Cerner Corporation Siemens Healthcare Keane, an NTT DATA Company CSC Pulse Systems, Inc., division of Cegedim Cognizant Emdeon Epic Systems Corporation Allscripts […]
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From the blog EMR and EHR comes this list of top three annoying things EHR vendors do to sell their software: Can’t explain how their product actually solves physician problems Claim their product is a Swiss Army knife Slack off on support after the sale To this I would also add: leading practices to believe […]
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MPT Podcast 14 – Getting the Most Out of Your Medical Software, with guest Mary Pat Whaley of ManageMyPractice.com This Issue: We only use 10% of the features of most software If you don’t push training, no one will get any better Some basic principles apply to most software
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From our partners at Software Advice comes this nice summary of the recent history of HIPAA violations and breaches. Physicians looking at EMR systems are concerned about the the security of patient records, particularly those systems that reside on the ‘cloud’ – basically, this is when the data is stored remotely from where the practice […]