Category: EHR

No one likes to feel muzzled. So I read with great interest this recent blog post from Carl Bergman, managing partner of a service that matches users with electronic health record vendors. He… read more …read more    

When I was reading Michael Brozino’s post on EMR and EHR about the Value of Meaningful Use, I was hooked in by his comment that meaningful use standards only went halfway. I’m not sure if this was the intent of his comment, but I couldn’t help but sick back and consider if meaningful use missed…

Most physicians responding to a newly published survey are dissatisfied with the functionality and cost of electronic health record systems. read more …read more    

The U.S. Department of Defense is seeking enterprise software licenses specific to its variety of hospitals and clinics, according to a notice posted on the federal contract website. It’s also… read more …read more    

Physician outcry on EHR functionality, cost will shake the health information technology sector Medical Economics publishes a survey of 1,000 US physicians in which 45 percent of respondents say patient care is worse since implementing an HER and 79 percent of respondents report that they do not believe that EHRs have been worth the resources,…

Eligible hospitals and professionals attesting to meeting the Meaningful Use requirements should print and retain every document they rely on when attesting in the event that they are audited, since the documents often can’t be reproduced by the EHR afterward, according to Phyllis Patrick, a consultant and former information security officer for Mount Sinai Medical…

Meaningful Use Expert, Jim Tate, has a really interesting post up on his Meaningful Use Audits website that shares some of the details CMS offered on the EHR incentive audits and appeals process. I know many of my readers are worried about the meaningful use audits and are interested in these details. You can go…

A former hospital chief financial hospital has been charged with healthcare fraud for falsely attesting that his hospital met the Meaningful Use requirements. read more …read more    

The global EHR market is expected to grow “significantly” from $10.6 billion in 2012 to $17 billion by 2017, at a compounded annual growth rate (CAGR) of 9.8 percent, according to the latest report from research and consulting firm GlobalData. read more …read more    

Recently, I stumbled across a very interesting article talking about I call the “patient alienation effect” generated by EMRs. The author, Charles Smith, who practices at the University of Arkansas, is an EMR old hand who has been using the Centricity ambulatory EMR for more than a decade. The article, which appears in the Journal…