Category: EHR

Today’s EHR and HIT news includes an integration update between M*Modal and PACSGEAR software as well as product news from Merge Healthcare who will be unveiling their new universal viewing and image sharing solution at RSNA 2013. M*Modal Announces Integration with ModLink from PACSGEAR Software transfers radiology report measurements into M*Modal Fluency for Imaging […]…

ONC’s Health IT Policy Committee Tiger Team plans to recommend that the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services approach HIPAA’s accounting of disclosures rule for electronic health records in a “step-wise” fashion and balance the needs of patients and providers. read more …read more

The bulk of spending on the joint EHR proposed by the departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs went to support service contracts in 2012, according to a new report from the Interagency Program… read more …read more

Sometimes it’s fun to critique my health IT editor colleagues in this space, but this time, I can do nothing but agree with a column written by FierceHealthIT editor Dan Bowman. In his column, he notes that physician practices and hospitals have been quite worried about the transition from ICD-9 to ICD-10, something which is…

Researchers from Vanderbilt University Medical Center and co-authors from four other U.S. institutions from the Electronic Medical Records (EMRs) and Genomics (eMERGE) Network are using the EMR in conjunction with genetic data to discover new disease associations. Researchers from Vanderbilt University Medical Center and co-authors from four other U.S. institutions from the Electronic Medical Records…

I’ve seen a lot of articles lately about physicians who are unhappy with their EHRs because they feel they’re being forced to collect too much meaningless data and to do “too many clicks.” I read most of them to see if I can pick up any pearls that will help my physicians and also to…

The following is a guest blog post by Dr. Jose Barreau, CEO of Doc Halo. For all the money they spend on state-of-the-art EMRs, compliance officers and other measures to ensure they’re protecting their patients’ medical information, many healthcare organizations have a gaping hole in their security. Physicians and other clinicians are as apt as…

The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT held a high profile at the AMIA Symposium in Washington, D.C., last week. The ONC held several listening sessions to gauge what types of issues providers are running into as they prepare for Stage 2 of meaningful use. The Office of the National Coordinator for Health…

MacPractice has announced that version 4.4.45+ 64-Bit MacPractice MD, MacPractice DC, MacPractice DDS and MacPractice 20/20 are compatible with OS X Mavericks and OS X Mountain Lion. MacPractice also announced recent iOS 7 compatible versions of Patient Check In, MacPractice Clipboard, and MacPractice iEHR for iPad with ePrescribe, and MacPractice Interface for iPhone. “A good…

I always love the creativity that comes out of the good people at HL7 Standards. In the latest example, I reference a post by Jon Mertz called Giving Thanks for Health Information Technology. In the post, he digs into the idea that gratitude is a mindset and suggests that we could use a little more…