Category: EHR

Q&A: Karen DeSalvo on Meaningful Use, ONC Reorg National Coordinator for health IT Karen DeSalvo, MD, sits down with Scott Mace of HealthLeaders Media to discuss EHR usability, ONC’s restructure, and the future of Meaningful Use. Group Of Electronic Health Record Vendors To Become Officially Interoperable CommonWell, the EHR vendor interoperability alliance, will begin rolling…

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Indian Health Service has contributed an open-source version of its Resource and Patient Management System to the Open Source Electronic Health Record Alliance Technical Journal. read more …read more    

Fifteen months after banding together in the name of electronic health record interoperability, the CommonWell Health Alliance–which includes EHR vendors Allscripts, athenahealth, Cerner, CPSI, Greenway and McKesson–plans to officially begin delivering on that promise this summer. read more …read more    

IBM and Verona, Wisconsin-based Epic have joined forces to compete for the Department of Defense Healthcare Management Systems Modernization contract, which will replace and modernize the agency’s electronic health record system. read more …read more    

This is my third of five guest blog posts covering Health IT and EHR Workflow. Workflow technology has a reputation, fortunately out of date, for trying to get rid of humans all together. Early on it was used for Straight-Through-Processing in which human stockbrokers were bypassed so stock trades happened in seconds instead of days.…

IBM Joins Forces with Epic to Bid for Department of Defense Healthcare Management Systems Modernization Contract IBM announces that it will partner with Epic in the pending DoD EHR vendor search, naming IBM CMIO Keith Salzman, MD, MPH and 22-year Army doc, as project lead. Intermedix Corporation Acquires T-System’s Physician Billing Division T-Systems sells its…

An internal Department of Veterans Affairs audit of the scandal involving inordinate wait times for veterans seeking medical treatment found many widespread problems with scheduling and access to care, but did not place the fault on VistA, the VA’s electronic health record system. read more …read more    

This is my second of five guest blog posts covering Health IT and EHR Workflow. If you pay any attention at all to interoperability discussion in healthcare and health IT, I’m sure you’ve heard of syntactic vs. semantic interoperability. Syntax and semantics are ideas from linguistics. Syntax is the structure of a message. Semantics is…

Top News Our intrepid beltway reporter Dim-Sum has been telling us for months that IBM and Epic are pitching for the DoD’s $11 billion EMR contract, which IBM now confirms in announcing its intentions. Heading the project will be IBM CMIO Keith Salzman, MD, MPH, who was an Army doc for 22 years. Dim-Sum’s reports…

John Lynn is taking a well-deserved week off to attend a family function. He asked if I was interested in five EHR workflow guest blog posts, a blog post a day this week, on EMR and HIPAA. Of course I said: YES! Here’s the outline for the week: Five Guest Blog Posts On EHR &…