Category: EHR
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Google Glass and drchrono – A cool EHR implementation
drchrono just sent out an email blast regarding the use of their EHR and Google Glass: With all the buzz surrounding Google Glass, we wanted to give our users the opportunity to become some of the very first Wearable EHR explorers! We are proud to announce the release of our Google Glass application and invite…
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Most Regional Extension Centers Plan to Remain Open for Business
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 introduced the concept of Regional Extension Centers (RECs) into the healthcare lexicon. These regional organizations were created to help eligible providers achieve meaningful use. Since funding for RECs from the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) ends at the close of 2014, one might…
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ONC: Infrastructure necessary for real-time data collection, public health use
The increasing use of electronic health records to collect data is spurring more real-time data collection, and public health agencies need to build the technical and administrative infrastructure to receive the data, according to a new issue brief published this week by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT. read more …read more
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The 2015 EHR certification criteria may be dead on arrival
I don’t know what caused the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT to change its approach to certification and create a voluntary 2015 Edition of EHR certification criteria, but it doesn’t seem to be going over well with stakeholders. read more …read more
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Advocate for the patient to engage docs in IT projects
Selling new projects to doctors requires coordination, diplomacy and empathy. A winning strategy involves a targeted communication plan for doctors, “at the elbow” training and easy-to-access support and Healthcare organizations should build on the lessons learned during their EHR implementations to gain physician buy-in for new IT projects, speakers stressed at a recent forum. read…
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Group urges ONC to include mHealth in EHR incentives
From mHealth News: The Telecommunications Industry Association called on national coordinator Karen DeSalvo, MD to make sure the voluntary guidelines are flexible enough to allow for “the delivery of healthcare in motion, virtually anywhere and at any time,” in a nine-page document TIA sent to the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of the…
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Health IT Workforce Shortage Poll
Over on our Healthcare IT job board, we deal with the question of the Healthcare IT workforce shortage all the time. Although, the question of a shortage is a hard once since finding the right people to hire is always hard. Plus, in this artificially stimulated EHR adoption environment, of course many of the resources…
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Advanced Data Capture Automates Data Collection; Collates and Structures Information inside an EHR
The following is a guest post A Guest Post By David Rasmussen The University of Wisconsin (UW) Hospital and Clinics, one of the world’s foremost organ transplant programs, receives hundreds of thousands of external lab reports every year. Since more than 80 percent of its patients’ tests are performed at outside locations with the results…
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Royal Solutions 3.0 Achieves ONC HIT 2014 Edition Modular EHR Certification from ICSA Labs
Royal Solutions Group has announced that their Royal Solutions 3.0 has achieved ONC HIT 2014 Edition Modular EHR certification which designates that the software is capable of supporting eligible providers with meeting the Stage 1 and Stage 2 Meaningful Use measures required to qualify for funding under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. Royal Solutions,…
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Where Are the Big Business Associate HIPAA Breaches?
It seems like I have HIPAA and security on my mind lately. It started with me writing about the 6 HIPAA Compliance Reality Checks whitepaper and then carried over with my piece looking at whether cloud adoption addresses security and privacy concerns. In the later post, there’s been a really rich discussion around the ability…