Category: EHR

The use of scribes to help physicians document notes into electronic health records continues to gain traction, creating a boon for scribe staffing companies. read more …read more    

ZirMed has announced a new, secure, HIPAA-compliant secure messaging feature for Clinical Link®, the company’s cloud-based communications platform. This enhancement enables ZirMed users to exchange messages and clinical documents with any provider organization in the U.S., regardless of an organization’s EHR or practice management system. Clinical Link secure messaging helps providers meet the need for…

Providers must take steps to reduce the risk of improper billing caused by their use of electronic health record functionalities that help with documentation, according to a recently published attorney advisory. read more …read more    

In one of my recent interviews with a healthcare IT consulting company, they revealed some breaking news for those of us in the EHR world. They told me point blank that: Meaningful Use is Not Covering Costs Ok, so that’s not really breaking news. Although, it seems that very few people want to actually articulate…

Today’s EHR and HIT news includes certification news from Orion Health as well as Black Book Ranking news from Practice Velocity. Orion Health™ Patient Portal Achieves ONC HIT 2014 Edition Modular Certification from ICSA Labs Orion Health, a leading global, privately-held eHealth software organization, announced that the Orion Health Patient Portal (Patient Portal) v. 4.0…

I’ve regularly seen the divide (sometimes really wide) between the programmer and technical people in an organization and the healthcare professionals. For example, a healthcare IT company recently emailed me about an issue they had with their main developer. They asked the insightful question, “Is it possible to find quality developers who are not, shall…

Nuance Communications has announced today the immediate availability of Nuance PowerShare™ Network, the industry’s largest cloud-based network for securely connecting physicians, patients, and others to share medical images and reports as simply as people exchange information using social networks. “This nationwide network, one that is fully integrated into the EHR workflow and already connected to…

Meaningful Use Stage 3 should embrace interoperability at its core to foster creation of a truly interoperable health data infrastructure, according to a report conducted by JASON, an independent group of scientists that advises the U.S. government on science and technology. read more …read more    

The jury may still be out on how the Meaningful Use program should operate and whether it really improves quality. There’s no question, however, that the program was the catalyst for massive, high-speed adoption of electronic health records–and that the industry may have just turned a corner in its use and attitude regarding such systems.…

The following is a guest blog post by Jennifer Bergeron, Learning and Development Manager at The Breakaway Group (A Xerox Company). Check out all of the blog posts in the Breakaway Thinking series. If you’ve ever traveled to a country that doesn’t speak your native tongue, you can appreciate the importance of basic communication. If…