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In a sign of the times of the current political environment, the Montana senate initially rejected federal incentive funds for its state’s hospitals and community centers, but after consideration decided to reverse its decision. In an article on NextGov.com, John Pulley writes that Republicans took a hard line in the beginning, “rejecting the money as […]
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We have arrived at the point of no return. You are now looking at an EHR vendor contract and no matter how well you negotiate this contract, once signed, it will be very difficult for you to change your mind and “get out” without incurring large financial penalties. Once you begin using the product, there […]
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“Certified” is the $44,000 buzzword prefixing electronic health records (EHR) software. To qualify for Health Information Technology for Economic and Clincal Health (HITECH) Act incentive payments, you must use an EHR that is certified by the government. Additionally, you must use a system – or systems – that offer 100% of the functional and security […]
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One of my partners recently attended a medical meeting where they had a breakout session on EMR implementation. The speakers told the practices to expect to have an initial 50% decrease in productivity when they implemented EMR. Why? Because the consultants that help practices go paperless will tell practices to cut their clinic volume in […]
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Recently there has been some buzz about a study out of Stanford University, which appeared in the Archives of Internal Medicine, stating that there was no significant improvement in quality of care using electronic medical records systems compared to paper record, with the exception of diet counseling for adults. However, as pointed out in an […]
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As if medical practices don’t have enough to worry about with EMR implementation, now they have to decide what kind of EMR system to get: a client-server-based system or a web-based system. The former is the kind that most of us are familiar with. You purchase a computer server, buy a license for the EMR […]
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If you Google “Pros and Cons of EMR” you will pull up a plethora of listings about why (or why not) you should consider switching from paper records to electronic ones. But, at this point, is this a pretty stupid debate? And, yes, I know, even here we have discussed both sides of the argument […]
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Can EMR Prevent Medical Errors?
We have all heard about how many patients are killed or maimed by their seemingly trustworthy physicians. According to a blog on CommonSenseMD, the Robert Graham Center for Policy Studies in Family Medicine and Primary Care states that the five most common medical errors are: medication prescribing laboratory testing misfiling of medical records medication dispensing, […]
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That feels like it should be said with a German accent. But seriously, the date for registration for Medicare’s EHR incentive payment program begins on January 3, 2011. According to a report on MassDevice.com, the CMS and the ONCHIT (Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology) have announced key milestones for implementation of […]