Tag: Medical
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Wake Forest Baptist’s transition to EHR causes financial hit
Yet another provider is facing unanticipated struggles with electronic health record system adoption. Winston-Salem, N.C.-based Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center is blaming additional costs and lost revenue on the 2012 implementation of its Epic EHR.
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Barriers impede provider use, endorsement of PHRs
The low adoption rate of personal health records by consumers may be caused in part by problems that providers are having with the systems, according to a new study published in the Journal of Medical Internet Research . read more
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CIO: Use different approaches to encourage EHR adoption
Hospitals need to take into account each particular physician and tailor their approach to moving the physician to an electronic health record system, according to Daniel Morreale, vice president and CIO at Kingsbrook Jewish Medical Center in New York City. read more
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EHR and HIT News for April 3rd
Today’s EHR and HIT news includes a customer acquisition update from InterSystems Corporation and MedInformatix as well as news from HIMSS on it’s latest Stage 7 award winner, Florida Hospital Carrollwood. Texas Health Services Authority Selects InterSystems to Provide Secure Infrastructure for Statewide HIE and Patient Consent Management InterSystems Corporation has announced that the Texas…
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Hospitals, Representative Ask For Extension of EMR “Safe Harbor”
Right now, it’s legal for hospitals to give doctors EMRs under certain circumstances, despite the existence of the Stark law banning payments intended to induce referrals. Specifically, hospitals won’t face anti-kickback enforcement if doctors pay 15 percent of the cost of EMRs donated by hospitals. But the Stark law exception established by CMS, plus a…
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Study Shows that Patient Access to EHR Data is “Empowering”
Sharing data contained in electronic health records with patients offers a number of benefits, according to a recent study in the Journal of Medical Internet Research . Patient access to health data contained in an EHR system has been a hotly debated topic recently so it’s interesting that some researchers, from the Veteran’s Administration and…
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Access to EHR data ‘overwhelmingly’ positive for patients
Providing patients with access to the information in their electronic health records “overwhelmingly” yielded positive benefits, according to a new study in the Journal of Medical Internet Research . read more
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EHR and HIT News for April 1st
Today’s EHR and HIT news includes an update from Streamline Health Solutions on an extended relationship with Saint Francis Hospital and Medical Center. Additionally there is personnel news from healthcare solutions provider Edifecs . Saint Francis Signs Agreement to Upgrade and Extend the Use of Streamline Health’s Solutions for Five More Years Streamline Health Solutions…
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Patients Want to Share Their Medical Data
During the recent Dell Healthcare Think Tank which I took part in, I had an idea that I think is incredibly powerful and not talked about nearly enough. In fact, I think its reasonable to say that if we want to get healthcare costs down, then we have to learn how to do this well.…
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EHR data still ‘too fragmented’ for secondary uses
While electronic health record data has the potential to be reused to identify which patients may be eligible to participate in clinical trials, the data capture is too incomplete and “fragmented” to be relied on for such a secondary use, according to new research published in BMC Medical Informatics & Decision Making . read more