Category: EHR

We are regularly reminded that Stage 3 of meaningful use will shift the focus from EHR deployment and data exchange to the health outcomes improvement the technology is designed to enable. But of course some organizations are already past the implementation phase and are working on realizing those outcome improvements. That Stage 3 future is…

There is value in applying strategic marketing principles to the rollouts of electronic health records in patient care organizations, argues Doug McCourt, president and chief operating officer of company M, a Palm Springs, Calif.-based marketing services and managerial consulting firm. There is value in applying strategic marketing principles to the rollouts of electronic health records…

Having an effective response plan is critical for mitigating the impact of downtime, and your organization has likely put a tremendous amount of thought and care into its contingency plan. But your plan may have an Achilles’ heel that your organization is completely unaware of—a weakness that could leave your organization as poorly prepared as…

The Epic EMR at Northern California’s Sutter Health crashed earlier this week, leaving the system inaccessible for an entire day, reports Healthcare IT News. The system, which cost Sutter nearly $1 billion, went offline at approximately 8AM, locking out doctors, nurses and staff from accessing vital information such as medical lists and patient histories. The…

A number of healthcare IT stakeholders are pushing the government to either delay or extend the timeline for Stage 2 of meaningful use, as I found in researching for a recently published feature article in the September issue of Healthcare Informatics. It kind of reminds me of the final minutes of a basketball game. In…

Sutter Health’s nearly $1 billion electronic health record system crashed Monday, leaving staff at its California hospitals and doctor’s offices without access to patient records for a full day. read more Source: Blackout of Sutter EHR system leaves several hospitals scrambling

Telstra Buys DCA’s Healthcare Division Australian telecom giant Telstra has acquired Database Consultant Australia’s healthcare division, which makes the Communicare EHR solution, and markets a secure messaging platform for healthcare. Announcing the Behavioral Health Patient Empowerment Challenge ONC announces the Behavioral Health Patient Empowerment challenge, which is seeking entries from existing behavioral health apps that…

The $1 billion Epic electronic health record (EHR) system went completely dark on Aug. 26 at Sutter hospitals in Northern California following a weekend when the system was down for a planned upgrade, according to an announcement by the California Nurses Association (CNA). The $1 billion Epic electronic health record (EHR) system went completely dark…

For more background on this topic, check out my previous post “Practice Fusion Violates Some Physicians’ Trust in Sending Millions of Emails to Their Patients” Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer and do not offer legal advice. The others quoted in this post are offering general information or interpretation and not specific legal advice or…

As healthcare policy leaders wade into the thicket of issues confronting CIOs, one thing is clear: each issue has its own set of competing challenges, and there are no simple solutions. Healthcare Informatics Associate Editor Gabriel Perna recently spoke with seven industry insiders and leaders to attempt to unfurl the challenges that surround each regulatory…