EMR Interfaces, MU vs Quality Care, and Data Outside EMR

@samuelrajan yes! I Will help! Moving forward, any emr not interfaced with @CoverMyMeds is obsolete! Pls rt!

— natalie hodge (@nataliehodge) April 21, 2014

I’m not sure I agree completely with this tweet. I don’t know enough about Covery My Meds to say either way. Although, I wondered if many EMRs will integrate with Covery My Meds. From my experience, EMR vendors don’t want to interface with many outside software companies. A few embrace outside companies interfacing with them. We’ll see if that changes over time.

Study finds no association between #EHR meaningful users and quality of care http://t.co/dIDEBEF6nW

— C. Michael Gibson MD (@CMichaelGibson) April 18, 2014

I haven’t had a chance to look at this study yet, but did anyone think that quality of care would improve because of MU?

Wellness tracking/apps mentioned in every #iht2 session so far. Reaffirms huge amount of patient data exists outside of EMR.

— Jennifer Dennard (@JennDennard) April 15, 2014

No doubt we’ll eventually have outside data from wellness tracking apps incorporated in EMR, but I don’t think it will ever be a free for all. There are tens of thousands of wellness apps and I don’t see doctors wanting data from just any app. They’ll want to only get data from apps they trust. That’s a high bar for most apps. Plus, once you win the trust of one doctor, you still have to win the trust of all the other doctors. There’s not a trusted third party that doctors look to for apps.

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