Category: EHR

For those that don’t know the history of EMR and HIPAA, I wrote the first post on EMR and HIPAA back on December 11, 2005. It’s fun to read that first post. Short and sweet. I hit some high level points which amazingly still represent my desires 10 years later. “I will try to incorporate…

We Need Open Providers (An Alternative View on Open EHR) By Brian Weiss Open EHRs, Soft Drinks, and Leprechauns Just under a year ago, having surfaced the disturbing and shocking possibility that EHR vendor marketing claims may not all be objectively measured and verified, Mr. H issued a challenge to have someone (other than EHR…

In the midst of disaster, hospitals often serve as a refuge, a place of comfort for those in need of care or shelter. But even hospitals aren’t immune to chaos, as electronic health record systems, network connections and even whole power grids can be rendered useless in the blink of an eye. read more Read…

Neither patients nor their electronic health records are commodities, and they should not be treated as such, according to Nebraska family physician Robert Wergin, M.D., president of the American Academy of Family Physicians, in a blog post for The Hill. read more Read more from originating source…

David Lareau is CEO of Tell me about yourself and the company. I’ve been here since 1995. I discovered Peter Goltra and Medicomp when I was in the billing business and had a customer who wanted electronic health records. We provide the MEDCIN engine and software. Our sole purpose in life is to present the…

Top News England’s NHS makes tech announcements: commits to giving patients real-time access to their entire electronic medical record by 2018, ambulance services will also be connected electronically to hospital EDs. NHS is also looking into the possibility of making all of its facilities free Wi-Fi zones and rolling out wearables to patients for in-hospital…

While providers are under a great deal of stress to meet adoption requirements for Meaningful Use, the industry must stay the course, said panelists at a Senate committee hearing Tuesday. read more Read more from originating source…

More and more buyers of electronic health records are finding themselves having second thoughts and opting to replace their existing systems, according to a new report. [See also: Nurses not happy with hospital EHRs] Electronic Health Records read more Read more from originating source…

Defining Our Terms: Does Anyone Know What an “Open EHR” Really Is? By Dean F. Sittig, PhD and Adam Wright, PhD Adapted from “What makes an EHR “open” or interoperable?” J Amer Med Inform Assoc 2015. Available at: http://jamia.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2015/06/13/jamia.ocv060. There’s been a lot of talk lately about “open” EHRs, ranging from Congressional hearings to industry…

Electronic health records should have five “use cases” in order to be considered “open” or interoperable, according to a new article in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association (JAMIA). read more Read more from originating source…