Category: EHR

Kareo has announced that Brown-Wilson’s Black Book Rankings Survey has again ranked Kareo as the top integrated electronic health records, practice management, and revenue cycle management software vendor. Kareo was the only company to receive a top 4 ranking in every one of the 18 evaluation criteria measured, achieving the top spot in 12 of…

The following is a guest blog post by Andy Oram, writer and editor at O’Reilly Media. The kind of health care reform that brings better care at a reasonable cost will consist of many, tightly interlocking strands. Each of us—everyday consumers and patients, health care providers, payers and public health officials, technology developers, policy makers,…

EHR Usability – Whose Job Is It? By Michael Burger Near misses, good catches, or serious reportable events – how many of these could be a design flaw of the EHR used? This was an underlying question in an article published recently entitled, “Poor Prescription documentation in EHR jeopardizes patient safety at VA hospital.” This…

Top News Medfusion files suit against Allscripts, claiming the company didn’t live up to its agreement to resell Medfusion’s patient portal to EHR customers of Allscripts. Medfusion says Allscripts owes it $5 million, with damages potentially tripling the lawsuit’s value. The lawsuit claims: The companies signed a five-year agreement valid through July 17, 2014. Allscripts…

Electronic health records hold great promise for improving healthcare delivery and patient outcomes, but the Meaningful Use program incentivizing people to adopt EHRs has several flaws that are… read more …read more    

Since the dramatic shift to electronic health records in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology has explored the role health information exchange (HIE) could play in disaster preparedness and response, according to a Health IT Buzz blog post. read more …read more    

In the comments of my post, “Do Doctors Care About the Triple Aim?”, Dr. Randall Oates, Founder of SOAPware offers his perspective on the provider discontent we see growing: What you say is true and largely explains the growing discontent of physicians. Multiple surveys reveal that at least 40% of physicians are not just unhappy,…

Behavioral hospitals have received short shrift when it comes to electronic health records and Meaningful Use, according to Edmund Billings, chief medical officer of Medsphere Systems Corporation. read more …read more    

Has anyone else noticed the growing disconnect between EHRs and Meaningful Use? Now that the program is fully entrenched and it’s been out for more than a test spin, it’s pretty clear that… read more …read more    

On 4/09/2014, AHRQ released the 3. The report suggests that all data be encrypted at rest and in motion. Meaningful Use already requires encryption of data in motion. HIPAA requires compensating controls for data at rest, one of which is encryption of client devices. 4. The report describes separation of key management from data management.…