EMR Electronic Medical Records
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Although written two years ago, a post by Vince Kuraitis on the e-CareManagement blog seems timely: “Google Health promises to simutaneously create and dominate the market for next generation personal health records (PHRs). There is nothing else in our solar system or in the entire universe like it.” What follows is an extensive analysis
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In order to implement an electronic medical records (EMR) system, you must have ‘buy-in” from your staff. This means you’ll need firm commitments from the influencers at your medical practice, along with cooperation at all organizational levels. One Bad Apple Since one single naysayer can drag down everyone else down, it is important to intervene […]
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Well, several of my colleagues said it was never going to happen, but not only are there federal mandates for the adoption of EMR but now the states are starting to push for it as well. If you still don’t think that EMR is going to happen….I just can’t understand where you have been living […]
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According to an article by Lou Agosta in B-Eye-Network.com, 80% of healthcare is delivered by medical practices consisting of only 1 to 5 doctors. And most big players in the EMR software system arena are marketing to larger clinics and multi-specialty institutions. Even existing and proposed open-source systems such as OpenVistA still require significant investments […]
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Much of the new regulatory information coming out of Washington is getting increasingly more difficult to translate into English. I was recently asked whether a medical practice could use Google’s free email service GMail instead of spending money on a mail server and its associated server software. After checking with our own head of IT, […]
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There is a very interesting blog post by Steve Brown that gives us a novel way of approaching the massive challenge that is healthcare reform. While politicians and pundits are arguing about how to spend stimulus bill money, nobody is thinking about how to improve the dissemination of information. This, after all, is the holy […]
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According to a recent report from McKinsey, the US Congressional Budget Office (or CBO, always described by the media as “non-partisan”) predicts that the stimulus incentives for EMR adoption will have a significant effect on medical practices in this regard, as compared to projections without the incentives. Part of this is due to the fact […]
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In order for your electronic medical records (EMR) implementation to be successful, you need to get buy-in from your employees. And for that to happen you need some key personnel involved from the get-go. It’s not possible for just one person to handle this task alone, no matter how talented he or she is. The […]
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A recent article in the AMA news discussed some of the continued ambiguities of the “Meaningful Use” prerequisites handed down by the Health IT Policy Committee. Nevertheless, it does give everyone an idea of where they are headed. Generally speaking, meaningful users are defined as healthcare-providers who are using E-Prescribing, that their EMR technology is […]