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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 […]
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EMR and the Generation Gap
What is the quickest way to figure out how to use a new electronic device? Read the manual? No – hand it to a child and let them play with it for a few minutes and show you how it works. But the converse is true as well: if you hand it to an older […]
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A study in the journal Canadian Family Physician found that family physicians like the perceived benefits of Personal Health Records (PHRs), but still have some serious questions about them, according to an article on Information Week HealthCare. Primary care physicians like the potential benefits of PHRs such as making healthcare data more portable and opening […]
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Could Canadian physicians lose their jobs if they don’t go paperless? In an article in the Canadian Medical Association Journal, a leading health administrator, speaking at an e-Health conference in Toronto, proposed that physicians in Canada face stiff penalties, including firing, if they do not adopt the use of electronic medical records systems. According to […]
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MPT Podcast 11 – Five Best Practices for EHR Implementation, with guest Chris Mertens, VP of the Personal Systems Group for Hewlett-Packard. This Issue: Why you should take a good look at your processes before purchasing an EMR system How to minimize lost productivity Why installation of an EMR system is not the final step […]