Category: EHR

Personal computers remain the tool of choice for electronic health record users, despite the rise in tablets and smartphones, according to the latest report from Epocrates, an athenahealth company. read more …read more    

The following is a guest blog post by Andy Oram, writer and editor at O’Reilly Media. One couldn’t come away with more enthusiasm for open data than at this month’s Health Datapalooza, the largest conference focused on using data in health care. The whole 2000-strong conference unfolds from the simple concept that releasing data publicly…

The data in electronic health records can be harnessed to help the U.S. Food and Drug Administration better promote and protect public health, according to Janet Woodcock, director of the FDA’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research. read more …read more    

As I read Jonathan Bush’s new book, Where Does It Hurt?the most salient problem that Bush discusses is that hospitals can’t effectively measure or attribute their costs. As a result, they can’t make good decisions since they don’t know how to attribute costs and revenues. Although this has been widely known for sometime, the implications…

Health IT vendors don’t often protect electronic patient information in accordance with HIPAA, even when they and their provider clients think that they’re in compliance with the law, according to a new article by Dan Schroeder, an attorney with Habif, Arogeti & Wynne in Atlanta. read more …read more    

Texas A&M Health and Science Center (TAMHSC) is teaming with Dell to start academy that will train practicing physicians on health information technology. In this Q&A, Paul Ogden, M.D., interim dean of the College of Medicine at TAMHSC, explains why the initiative is vital in today’s rapidly changing environment. Not having doctors prepared to use…

Well, here’s an interesting development. An EMR company has created an app allowing doctors using Google Glass to store patient data on a cloud-based storage and collaboration site. The vendor, California-based Drchrono, is claiming that the application is the first “wearable health record.” Whether or not that’s the case, this is clearly a step forward…

CMS urged to quickly finalize proposal to ease 2014 EHR meaningful use The American Hospital Association writes a letter to CMS and ONC asking that they quickly finalize the more flexible EHR attestation rules outlined in its Notice of Proposed Rulemaking. athenahealth Leads Industry in Meaningful Use Stage 2 Attestations athenaHealth reports that its users…

Top News The American Hospital Association urges CMS and ONC to quickly adopt plans that were identified in its Notice of Proposed Rulemaking that would give hospitals flexibility in the combinations of EHR certification and Meaningful Use stages that are permitted for 2014. AHA observes that the proposals are last minute given that the last…

Health IT Now, buoyed by Rand’s recent report on electronic health records, has called on the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and Congress to “decertify systems that require additional modules, expenses, and customization to share data,” and to investigate business practices that prohibit or restrict data sharing in federal incentive programs. read more…