Category: EHR

Amazing Charts.com has announced that it was ranked among the top 15 EHR vendors according to the 2013 “State of the Ambulatory Electronic Health Records Replacement Market” survey, an independent study conducted by Brown-Wilson’s Black Book Rankings. Amazing Charts, which works primarily with small- to-medium-sized medical practices, was ranked third among the top vendors in…

A new study released Monday by Aeffect and 88 Brand Partners, shows higher satisfaction rates among patients today. The study asked patients questions about ease of access to information and depth of communication which the study found directly reflect a patients satisfaction. It’s believed that patients feel they receive better quality of care at facilities…

The Florida Board of Medicine is considering changing its rules to allow providers to charge higher rates for copies of medical records, both paper and electronic. read more Source: Florida Board of Medicine considers raising EHR, paper copy rates

This morning, National HIT Coordinator Farzad Mostashari resigned. His letter to ONC staff was profound. As I read it, I felt a lump in my throat. He will be missed. How much do I respect him? I have not worn a tie since Y2K, except for a bow tie last year in honor of Farzad.…

Patients who access their medical records electronically through online portals are more satisfied with their doctors and more loyal than non-electronic health record users, according to a new study published this week. read more Source: Patients with EHR access happier, more loyal to docs

I keep hearing people say over and over that we just need to have a standardized set of data and interfaces for healthcare. This is one of the most unrealistic comments I hear and it is said all the time. This will just never happen. In a recent LinkedIn conversation, Susan Hirst offered this insight…

Today’s EHR and HIT news includes updates from PeriGen who have integration news, as well as funding news from HIPAA compliant cloud computing platform provider ClearDATA. PeriGen Announces First Integration of Its PeriCALM Perinatal Solution With CPSI’s Enterprise-Wide EHR at Taylor Regional Hospital PeriGen, the global leader in applying real-time clinical decision support to perinatal…

New research, published recently in Health Affairs, from the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology show that health information exchange between hospitals and other providers jumped 41 percent between 2008 and 2012. The research – authored by National Coordinator for Health Information Technology Farzad Mostashari, M.D., and ONC researchers – indicates that…

Can plagiarism detection tools catch EHR upcoding? A Government Health IT article explores the idea of combating copy-and-paste documentation in healthcare by adopting anti-plagiarism software popular in many academic settings. CACI wins VLER contract The Department of Veterans Affairs has awarded CACI International a $14 million contract to build a data exchange platform that will…

The attestation outlook for hospitals is not quite as sunny as the government has indicated, with smaller, more rural hospitals struggling to meet Meaningful Use and at risk of incurring penalties, according to a new study in the August issue of Health Affairs. read more Source: Meaningful Use progress 'uneven' for hospitals