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Ross Martin MD (founder of the American College of Medical Informatimusicology as part of his self-proclamation as the world’s leading singer/songwriter of health information technology standards development organization songs) has written a new song – a Rap this time on Meaningful Use. Driven by a desire to bring the “Pants on the Ground” by General […]
It was an exciting news day today with the announcement of a Strategic partnership between Nuance and 3M. Lots of coverage and keen interest from the press and healthcare industry as evidenced by the 290,000 search results in Google by 15:30 ET. While many of the news links were picking up 3M’s Press Release and […]
Certification remains one of the basic building blocks of the incentive program from the Government. CMS provides a tool for finding certified EHR technology for practices as part of the EHR incentive program. As Houston Neal Director of Marketing at Software Advice points out “Certified” is the $44,000 buzzword. In this guest posting he drills down into […]
Headlines this week have provided much confusion in the march towards digitization of healthcare that were based on a Stanford study published in the Archives of Internal Medicine: Electronic Health Records and Clinical Decision Support Systems with a conclusion: Our findings indicate no consistent association between EHRs and CDS and better quality. These results raise concerns about the ability […]
So a recent survey from the CDC: NCHS Health E-Stat “Electronic Medical Record/Electronic Health Record Systems of Office-based Physicians: United States, 2009 and Preliminary 2010 State Estimates” (pdf version here) and reported on the US Department of Health and Human Services website HHS.gov “Surveys show significant proportions of hospitals and doctors already plan to adopt […]
We are facing significant changes to the world of clinical documentation with the big push encompassed in the Meaningful Use requirements that push provides and healthcare facilities inexorably towards an electronic medical record (EMR) but there remain significant concerns over the potential impact these solutions can and will have on our clinical documentation. In this […]
We are on a path to roll out a large swathe of Electronic Health Records (EHR) but a recent report published on the AISHealth.com Audits of Electronic Health Records Cloning Reveal Documentation Problems That Put Compliance at Risk will give many folks reasons to pause and consider their strategy in rolling out electronic medical records […]
Thought critical free-text physician notes are under threat in the current slew of Electronic Medical Records and are at risk of being washed away in the rush towards the digitization of medical records. In Jeff Barry’s article in Health Management Technology; “Value of Unstructured patient narrative” he cites examples of Throwing the patient out with […]
Download now or preview on posterous Clinical Narrative Integrated into the EHR – Nick van Terheyden.pdf (1178 KB) From Health Data Matrix August 2009: Clinical Narrative Integrated into the EHR – Harmony with Healthstory It’s been 40 years since we placed a man on the moon. It was a big step forward for mankind. We even had a […]
The Atlantic featured a post by David Rothman that presented an iPad Stimulus plan: A national information stimulus plan: How iPad-style tablets could help educate millions and trim bureaucracy–not just be techno toys for the D.C. elite. Hold on – don’t give up quite yet, it’s not quite as crazy as it sounds and he […]
Harvard business review blogger Jeff Goldsmith wrote a pretty damming write up on the healthcare technology sector: “Has the US Health Technology Sector Run out of Gas“. He covers the lack of recent innovation and development across the board including pharmaceuticals, medical devices and even the once promising bio technology and personalized medicine/gene therapy concepts. […]
Hidden in an article that reviewed nursing opinions on computerized records: (AFT: Nurses Express Mixed Opinions on Computerized Records) was a striking data point While 73 percent said implementation of the systems went smoothly, many problems were identified, including 52 percent who said physicians are refusing to use the new systems. Yikes – that alone […]
