Tag: medical-record
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Medical Billing-New Era of Errors
Medical billing has always been a crucial element in the health care industry. The article talks about how medical billing mistakes have an impact on practices across the globe and how various types of services ensure the best record of care for patients. Years of studies and implementation, practice providers have managed to mark their…
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Mount Sinai Links Genetics with EMR
New York’s Mount Sinai Medical Center has announced that 25,000 people have signed on to participate in its biobank program, BioMe, where each patient has broadly consented to DNA sequencing, contact from researchers, and longitudinal studies related to data embedded in the electronic medical record (EMR).
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Morning Headlines 4/23/13
Nightingale and HealthFusion Partner to Deliver Electronic Health Record (EHR) Benefits to Customers in Kmart HealthFusion has been selected as the vendor of choice for Nightingale Preventative Care, a Long Island-based primary care center based out of the local Kmart. Nightingale has reported that the Nightingale Kmart clinic is thriving and that it intends to…
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Rural Hospital EHR
As I mentioned in my previous post on EHR Penalties and Meaningful Use Failure , I had a really good discussion with Stoltenberg Consulting about rural hospital EHR at HIMSS this year. While Stoltenberg no doubt works with hospital systems of every size, I could tell that they had a real affection for the rural…
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The RIS is dead, long live the RWFMS?
In working with a client that is evaluating acquisition of a new PACS (Picture Archive and Communications System) and the addition of a RIS (Radiology Information System), discussions with Philips confirmed that they have discontinued their RIS! One of the premises for this is that so much of the RIS functionality has been taken over…
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The “Post EHR” Era
Over the next few months, the majority of my time will be spent discussing topics such as care coordination, healthcare information exchange, care management, real time analytics, and population health. At BIDMC, we’ve already achieved 100% EHR adoption and 90% Meaningful Use attestation among our clinician community.