Category: EHR

What if someone built a better mouse trap and no one used it? What if people opted to continue using the existing available mouse traps because they were just as effective and cheaper than the upgraded mouse trap, and there was no obligation to use the newer one? That’s my initial concern with the Office…

On the bus ride home from the HIMSS14 party at Universal Studios, I sat next to a hospital CIO. She summed up the conference perfectly, “I’m tired, but also energized to go forward and do great things.” There you have the HIMSS conference in a beautiful nutshell. It’s always a really great experience to come…

Top healthcare groups petition HHS for meaningful-use extensions 50 influential healthcare groups, including the American Medical Association and the American Hospital Association, send a letter to HHS secretary Kathleen Sebelius asking that MU stage 2 be delayed due to a lack of EHR vendors meeting 2014 edition certification standards. Framework for I.T. Regulation Slated to…

As is probably going to forever be the case, much of my experience at HIMSS gets to benefit from the beauty of social media. Today was no different as their was the #HITsm chat where we played #HITsm account bingo. Somehow I ended up on stage competing against my fellow EMR and EHR writer, Jennifer…

Anoto has announced that Anoto Live(TM) forms is now available for healthcare. This new digital writing solution enables healthcare professionals to expedite paper-based workflows by transforming handwriting into live information using the digital pen platform, making it immediately available in EMR systems. Anoto Live forms is an easy-to-use modern alternative for healthcare organizations seeking to…

Almost half of large (200-plus bed) U.S. hospitals have indicated that they plan on buying a new electronic health record system by 2016. However most of them already have decided what they’re going to purchase, according to a new report from Orem, Utah-based KLAS Research. read more …read more    

Almost half of large hospitals interviewed indicated that they will be making a new EMR purchase by 2016, but only 22 percent of those buying decisions may still be up for grabs. This and other key findings were released in the latest KLAS report, entitled Acute Care EMR 2014: The Next Buying Wave. Of the…

What’s holding the industry back from achieving interoperability? One reason is that it lacks the “wow factor,” says Marc Probst. The CIO of Salt Lake City-based Intermountain Healthcare, who talked exclusively with FierceHealthIT at the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives’ CIO forum in Orlando, Fla., this week, said interoperability takes vision and patience. read…

More than 75 percent of respondents to the survey, released Monday afternoon at the organization’s annual conference in Orlando, indicated that they expect to qualify for Stage 2 of Meaningful Use this year. read more …read more    

Well, this is technically my second or third day, but this is the first official day of HIMSS. It’s a mad house like you can imagine and the vendor hall is as big as you’d expect. You need about 3 weeks to go through it. I actually decided to do a walking meeting with someone…