Category: EHR

0 Some families in Southern Oregon are involved with 13 different social service organizations and clinical providers that don’t talk to each other or share data. The Community Connected (C2) Network is being set up bring those agencies together. Recently I wrote about a June 2 meeting of the federal Health IT Policy Committee’s Advanced…

The number of electronic health record (EHR) buyers who are looking to replace their systems has increased by 59 percent since 2014, according to new research from the Austin, Tx.-based Software Advice. The number of electronic health record (EHR) buyers who are looking to replace their systems has increased by 59 percent since 2014, according…

Committee Working to Identify Immediate Solutions to Electronic Health Records Program that has Physicians “Terrified” Senator Lamar Alexander (R-TN), chairman of the HELP committee charged with evaluating the Meaningful Use program, says at the committees first hearing this week, “Physicians and doctors have said to me that they are literally terrified of the next implementation…

I mentioned before that at HIMSS this year I made a shift in focus from EHR technology to a look at what’s next after EHR. In most cases, the technology has some connection or tie to the EHR, but I was really interested to see where else a healthcare organization can apply technology beyond the…

The American Medical Association has adopted a policy to encourage the education of medical students in the use of electronic health records. read more Read more from originating source…

The Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General continues to refine its scrutiny of electronic health records, adding a new focus area in an update to its work plan, but deleting several older items previously under review. read more …read more

I’ve often wondered how medical professionals work through all of the different studies which seemingly say the opposite thing. This chart below illustrated the challenge perfectly: Everything both causes and prevents cancer: http://t.co/7QACMo24h5 pic.twitter.com/z5x1aAvU3l — Matt Yglesias (@mattyglesias) May 28, 2015 The key question is, “What happens when the evidence says 2 things?” I’ll be…

It still amazes me to think that upgrading a system from 1979 that impacts patients is controversial #ICD10 #kareochat — Brad Justus (@Brad_Justus) May 28, 2015 I thought that Brad’s characterization of ICD-10 as an upgrade to a system was pretty intriguing. I don’t think most people view it as an upgrade to a system,…

Pharmaceutical companies are major users of direct-to-consumer advertising. Although we see a lot of EHR vendors advertising in medical journals and at conferences, I haven’t seen a lot of direct mailings to non-administrative physicians. This week at my clinical office, I received a direct-to-physician mailing from Imprivata regarding electronic prescribing of controlled substances (EPCS). It…

I was recently talking to someone about why EHR documentation is so awful to read. It’s because billing requires that the doctor spew out all this useless documentation in order to justify billing at a higher level (Side Note: Be sure to check out my previous post about Documentation by Exception Being the Dredge of…