healthcare IT
Start Here
-
In Part 1, I discussed some of the challenges we face in hiring IT (information technology) personnel, a role which is becoming an increasingly common part of the medical practice. One of the major challenges is trying to validate the skillsets and credentials of a prospect. In Part 2, I present an action plan for […]
-
About 8 years ago or so, our practice decided to move from paper records to electronic records. The decision was helped along by the fact that we were literally running out of space for our paper charts. I had been looking at electronic medical records systems (EMRs) for years prior to this but could not […]
-
[Video 3] – Please post a comment below and tell us what you think. Please post a comment below and tell us what you think or ask any questions.
-
Kaiser Health News reports that older physicians may be resistant to electronic medical records systems implementation. And even meaningful use financial incentives may not be enough for these doctors to get over their aversion to technology. In response, the American Board of Medical Specialties is considering adding health care IT education as part of the […]
-
[Video 2] – Please post a comment below and tell us what you think. Please post a comment below and tell us what you think or ask any questions.
-
Physicians have long suspected that part of the reason that the government and the insurance industry are so gung-ho about EHR adoption is to keep a closer eye on health-care providers. And here is an example of just that. A Blue Cross Blue Shield provider (Highmark) is developing quality measures for its providers (internists, family […]
-
Recently I wrote about a Harvard study that found evidence that physicians that use electronic medical records systems (EMRs) are less likely to be involved in a malpractice lawsuit. But regardless of whether your charts are better documented and therefore make you less of a target for a claim, does using EMR make you practice […]
-
We are a little over two years into our electronic medical records implementation at the time of this writing. Since we have been performing a gradual rollout, the entire process has been relatively uneventful. Most of the credit for this goes to our chief information officer (technospeak for the head of our IT department) and […]
-
One of the goals of meaningful use and all the related federal spending of health IT is for EMRs to improve care coordination. But the current reimbursement system that’s heavy on fee-for-service encourages software developers and users alike to focus on documentation of billable events rather than coordination of care, a new study finds. Read […]