Category: EHR

As many of you know, I’m a regular reader of VC’s blogs (Yes, I know I’m a nerd). Nothing like a little casual venture capital blog reading. A number of the VC blogs I read regularly have been posting about the FCC rule making that could essentially regulate the internet. It would allow companies to…

Top News Google Ventures invests $130 million in oncology data platform vendor Flatiron Health, which will use some of the money to acquire oncology EMR vendor Altos Solutions. The two 20-somethings who founded Flatiron Health sold Google their online advertising platform for $81 million in 2010. They knew nothing about advertising or healthcare before starting…

Citrus Valley Health Partners (CVHP), a three-hospital system headquartered in Covina, Calif. in the San Gabriel Valley, is one of the first (and only) provider organizations to have completed all of its reporting for year one of Stage 2. However, getting there was not easy. Two of the systems’ leaders explain the difficulties of meeting…

As healthcare data mining grows in popularity, so do the calls to add more non-clinical data points to EHRs. The latest study finds iIncorporating community-level data might help doctors tailor their care and researchers better understand factors related to obesity. read more …read more    

We are witnessing a dramatic unbundling of the services that power business. Almost every aspect of business can be unbundled into a monthly service. My startup, Pristine, runs on a number of unbundled cloud services that until recently, would have traditionally been outsourced to HR firms or mega-IT companies. We run Pristine on ZenPayroll, RelateIQ,…

It would have been a pleasant surprise to hear that the transition from Stage 1 to Stage 2 of the Meaningful Use program, after all of the hoopla, was going well. Unfortunately, that’s not the case at all. read more …read more    

Unlike medical records kept in paper charts, electronic health records (EHR) provide numerous access points to clinicians to review a patient’s medical history. …read more    

Doctors should stop allowing nonphysicians to dictate the use of electronic health records and other aspects of practice, according to Daniel Craviotto, an orthopedic surgeon in Santa Barbara, California and a fellow of the American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons. read more …read more    

An electronic health record is one of the primary tools that can decrease the number of medical errors in hospitals, according to a new report published by the office of U.S. Sen. Barbara Boxer’s (D-California). read more …read more    

Medsphere Systems Corporation has announced that Washington state’s Valley General Hospital has selected the OpenVista® EHR system. The Snohomish County community hospital, located northeast of Seattle, expects to save roughly 50 percent on clinical IT costs with OpenVista while losing nothing in terms of functionality. “Medsphere welcomes Valley General to our community of hospital partners…