Category: EHR

Merck Teams With Electronic Health Record Provider Practice Fusion To Improve Patient Health Merck partners with Practice Fusion to bring EHR-based immunization reminder tools into physician practices. The partnership will provide physicians with the added ability to track immunization rates at the population level, and automatically send immunization reminders to patients. What Do Physicians Read…

We had a chance to sit down and do a Google Plus hangout with Dan Riskin, MD, CEO and co-founder of Health Fidelity to discuss the challenges of EHR today and how we can reach the real benefits of EHR adoption. We had a great discussion about how the industry is so caught up just…

The Department of Defense Healthcare Management Systems Modernization contract–estimated to be worth approximately $11 billion over its lifecycle–could be a game-changer for healthcare in the… read more …read more    

From Medscape: Physicians can expect criminals to increasingly target their electronic health records (EHRs) for patient information that they can sell on the black market for $50 per chart, warns the FBI. The agency’s Cyber Division issued a memo earlier this month forecasting what already has become apparent with every hacked hospital Web site and…

I first started working with the New York eHealth Collaborative (NYeC) many years ago when they first organized the Digital Health Conference many years ago. Hopefully they’ll have me back again this year since I’ve really enjoyed our ongoing partnership. Plus, it’s a great way for me to get a deeper look into the New…

iPatientCare has announced launching an exclusive specialty focused EHR for Chiropractors and Physical Therapist. “We believe, most Chiropractic professionals and Physical Therapist have very little support in terms of intuitive data entry features that save their time and effort for effective clinical documentation. iPatientCare’s Chiropractic and Physical Therapy EHR provides image based hot spots, rating…

My commentary last week stating that electronic health records have turned a corner seemed to have struck a nerve–or at least more than the usual amount of interest. The article has been one of the most read and shared editorials I’ve written. It’s also been mentioned in tweets and retweeted more than usual, especially the…

Between Windows XP causing HIPAA compliance issues and the risk associated with the risk assessment required by meaningful use, many in healthcare are really waking up to the HIPAA compliance requirements. Certainly there’s always been an overtone of HIPAA compliance in the industry, but its one thing to think about HIPAA compliance and another to…

The House Appropriations Committee has opted to withhold most of the funds requested by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs to upgrade its electronic health record system until the VA and the Department of Defense make progress on a joint EHR. read more …read more    

Meaningful Use: It’s just like high school, where you learned all the right facts for the test, but the knowledge didn’t stick with you any longer than until the end of the semester. At least, that’s the opinion of Dale Sanders, former CIO of Cayman Islands Health Services Administration and current senior vice president for…