Category: EHR

Top 5 tech trends healthcare leaders should pay attention to. #healthIT http://t.co/q9e26RGazF pic.twitter.com/9FxqimfYwJ — InsightDrivenHealth (@AccentureHealth) June 25, 2014 I’m a HUGE fan of crowdsourcing. I do it for so many things in my life and it’s incredibly effective. Although, I haven’t seen much of it done in healthcare. I’d love to hear examples where…

Patient behavioral health data has been successfully exchanged across state lines, opening the door to further interoperability of such data, according to a new report released by ONC. read more …read more    

Last night was the premiere of the second season of NY Med on ABC. I saw the previous season and enjoyed it and so I was interested to see the new season. I like all of the show except for Dr. Oz who is obviously there because he has a big name and not because…

Top News Philips will deploy clinical applications in a Salesforce.com-powered cloud environment that’s centered around patient relationship management. Two applications will be launched this summer, eCareCoordinator and eCareCompanion, which are collaboration platforms for monitoring chronic condition patients at home. Philips says future offerings will incorporate information from EMRs, medical devices, home monitoring, and wearables. The…

Providers have been lashing out against subpar electronic health record design for years. They gripe that not only do poorly designed systems impede workflow and cost too much, they also create new patient safety problems and don’t share data with other systems to coordinate care, as promised. Still, the industry hasn’t done much to address…

Four to six teams expected to bid on Defense health record effort FCW predicts that a total of just four to six teams will compete for the upcoming DoD EHR contract, with three already being identified as: Epic/IBM, CSC/Allscripts/HP, and VA/Vista. A medical first: Quadriplegic man controls arm using a chip implanted in his brain…

Bedside interactive patient systems (IPS) are becoming more popular, with 85 percent of larger hospitals considering buying one, according to a new study by Orem, Utah-based KLAS Research. read more …read more    

I thought the following TEDx video from Deborah C. Peel, MD, Founder and Chair of Patient Privacy Rights, would be an interesting contrast with some of the things that Andy Oram wrote in yesterday’s post titled “Not So Open: Redefining Goals for Sharing Health Data in Research“. Dr. Peel is incredibly passionate about protecting patient’s…

Computer Sciences Corp. announced on Tuesday that it will join forces with Allscripts and Hewlett Packard to pursue the coveted Department of Defense Healthcare Management Systems Modernization contract to replace and modernize the agency’s EHR system. read more …read more    

On Monday afternoon my wife was speaking with my 82 year old father-in-law, when he began speaking in word salad – not slurring his words, but clearly speaking words that made no sense. He had no numbness or weakness, no confusion, and no change in consciousness. After 5 minutes all symptoms resolved. My wife called…