Category: EHR
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The Nurse Will See You Now
The Atlantic just wrote a piece highlighting the growing trend of non-physicians (commonly referred to as midlevels) providing healthcare. The reason is simple: supply and demand–more precisely, a fixed supply. For any location where a patient demands healthcare services, there is only a binary result: either there is a qualified healthcare professional available to deliver…
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Allscripts Sunrise Surgical Care 14.2 now available
Allscripts has announced Allscripts Sunrise Surgical Care 14.2, is now generally available. Allscripts Sunrise Surgical Care is an enterprise-wide solution developed on the Allscripts Sunrise (TM) EHR platform. According to the company it provides a continuous, patient-level record specialized to meet the distinct IT needs of surgery and perioperative care, including pre-operative, orders, and documentation.…
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EHR certification process could undergo ‘massive’ changes
The Health IT Policy Committee’s certification/adoption work group recommendis two major changes to certification. Paul Tang, vice chair of the work group, called the recommended changes “massive.” read more …read more
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Morning Headlines 5/13/14
Quintiles Announces Agreement to Acquire Encore Health Resources Health IT consulting firm Encore Health Resources is acquired by Quintiles, a consulting firm focused on optimizing research, development, and manufacturing in the pharmaceutical industry. HITPC workgroup supports narrowed focus of EHR certification program After a hearing on the EHR certification process last week, the Health IT…
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AMA: Meaningful Use approach ‘not working’
The American Medical Association is attempting to make the Meaningful Use program more palatable to physicians, this time in a letter recommending a myriad of changes. read more …read more
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Your EHR Vendor Isn’t Certified – How Should You Approach MU Stage 2?
A recent study conducted by Wells Fargo Securities stated “Over 700 EHR vendors had solutions certified for Stage 1, but at this point about 40 have been certified for Stage 2. While there is still time, we believe 300-500 vendors will ultimately disappear from the government program.” We talked about the possibility of many EHR…
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Encore Health Resources, HealthPost Acquired
Drug research and services vendor Quintiles announced this morning that it will acquire health IT consulting firm Encore Health Resources. Terms were not disclosed. According to Quintiles CEO Tom Pike: Today’s announcement signifies the increasing importance of leveraging EHR and real-world information to inform our customers and improve their probability of success. Encore has significant…
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Happy Mother’s Day, Telemedicine Edition
In honor of Mother’s Day, I thought I’d write a post highlighting how telemedicine can benefit mothers caring for their children. Many children can get up to 6 ear infections per a year. Everytime it happens, children complain, and inevitably mothers take their kids to the pediatrist. In most cases, the mother already knows what…
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What Good Can We Do?
I’ve often considered the value that the Healthcare Scene network of blogs and myself provide to the industry. Based on the numerous emails that I get and other interactions, I think overall I feel really good about the impact for good that Healthcare Scene and this blog has had on healthcare IT. I think many…
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Tiger Team: Data segmentation recommendations to come in June
The Tiger Team workgroup will make recommendations geared toward protecting sensitive patient data in electronic health records–including behavioral health and substance abuse information–to the ONC’s Health IT Policy Committee next month, a workgroup leader said this week. read more …read more