Jamie Thompson, Healthcare IT News
“Approximately half of French hospitals still use film for their imaging exams. The Ministry of Health, through its state agency, has enlisted the Orange-GE Healthcare consortium to deliver digital cloud-based PACS to France’s most populous region, the Ile de France.
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John, EMR and HIPAA
“One of the really interesting things I noted while attending the NextGen user group meeting had to do with the move to SaaS based EHR and other SaaS based EHR software. I partially mentioned this in the write up I did at the conference, including a tweet where I talk about how Scott Decker really pushed the idea of NextGen making the move into the SaaS based software world.
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MarketWatch
“The only way we will achieve a truly effective nationwide system of electronic health records connecting virtually every physician and hospital is by offering office-based physicians a free EHR. By free, I mean a reliable, easy-to-use, meaningful-use certified, web-based ambulatory EHR offered to physicians through an ad-supported model.
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Healthlink Infosystems
“Many of the times it is very difficult to understand or get it right with the affordability of EMR’s. Is it only related with the cost??? Many will say- yes, because in many cases only the price is seen as a deciding factor, but at the same time it is also very important to understand the numerous benefits associated with it.
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Mike Miliard, Healthcare IT News
“Fewer than half of physician practices have made the switch to EHRs – but that should change very soon.
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EMR, EHR & Health Care Technology
“There is a sea of information available on the internet about cloud computing and how it works. As a doctor with limited interest in information technology, understanding all that jargon (most of which may not even be directly related to your work and computing requirements) can be quite intimidating and time consuming.
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Marianne Kolbasuk McGee, InformationWeek Healthcare
“Healthcare organizations are slowly turning to the cloud to run applications. That’s especially true for smaller healthcare providers who don’t have the IT staff or resources to roll out and support new in-house applications, let alone the hardware, networking, or other IT infrastructure that goes along with it.
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Shawn Riley, HealthTechnica
“I really like the concept of medical records as a service. I do. However, I don’t think the majority of health institutions are ready for the mind shift that needs to take place to support this type of model.
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Mary Mosquera, Healthcare IT News
“The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs plans to offer its physicians commercial cloud-based software-as-a-service collaborative tools to improve communications while also reducing data breaches.
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John, EMR and EHR
“I have to admit that I didn’t realize going into this analysis that it was going to be a landslide for the SaaS EHR. Although, that’s quite clear from this analysis. When it comes to EHR down time, the SaaS EHR is much better. Unless, you live in an area where the internet connection is unreliable and slow. Then, you don’t really have much choice since SaaS EHR needs a reliable internet connection.
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Houston Neal, Software Advice
“A lot has changed in the World of Apple since we originally wrote this post. Apple introduced the iPad, iPad 2 and version 4 of the iPhone. Over and above that, the App Store grew to more than 350,000 apps and reached over 10 billion downloads. Apple is clearly winning over the hearts and minds of consumers. What influence are they having in other markets, such as healthcare?
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Oleg Bess, Hospital Review
“The window of opportunity is shortening quickly for hospitals and physicians to comply with meaningful requirements of certified electronic health records. Traditional EHRs typically require 12 to 18 months to implement. This gives hospitals about a year and medical practices 15 months to deploy and learn to use an EHR before their 90-day Stage 1 reporting period begins in early July 2012 and Oct. 2012, respectively.
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Zina Moukheiber, Forbes
“Francisco-based provider of free web-based electronic health records (EHRs) raised $23 million in a round led by Founders Fund, a venture capital firm run by billionaire Peter Thiel, a PayPal founder and early investor in Facebook. In a press release, Thiel declared: “Practice Fusion revolutionizes our interactions with the medical community, just as Facebook did for social networking.”
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John, EMR Thoughts
“I think he makes a good point about it possibly being too early to really know how many cloud based SaaS EHR companies are going to have breaches. I also think it’s fair to consider that when those do happen, they’re going to be big breaches. They won’t just be a few records that are breached, but a whole bunch. Although, this is true for any electronic medical record HIPAA breach as compared with a paper chart HIPAA breach.
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Howard Anderson, HealthcareInfoSecurity.com
“Physicians implementing electronic health records should consider cloud computing as a way to improve security, says healthcare IT consultant Patricia Dodgen.
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ComputerWorld
“Cloud computing developed through a natural evolution of virtualization, service-oriented architecture, and utility computing. It is best described as a dynamically scalable delivery model for Internet-based IT services.
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CMIO
“Over the next two years, 58 per cent of small physician practices plan to roll out electronic health records. And by 2014, the US Federal Government wants more than half of all healthcare facilities to use EHRs.
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Dana Blankenhorn, ZDNet Healthcare
“I didn’t think it was possible. The people at Forbes are getting dumber.
A Forbes blog post titled “open source makes debut in health care” is making its rounds about the Internet this morning.
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John, EMR and HIPAA
“It must have been a couple years ago when I first heard about a Free EMR called Practice Fusion. Shortly after hearing about this Free EMR, I got a note saying that Practice Fusion had a Live in Five program that would get a practice live on the Practice Fusion EMR in 5 minutes. Check out my initial reaction to the Practice Fusion Live in Five program from early 2009.
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Brian Ahier, Healthcare, Technology & Government 2.0
“At the beginning of this year Kevin Pho, MD, Tom Gehring, CEO of the San Diego Medical Society, and myself discussed the iPad and its potential impact on healthcare in a piece published by HealthLeaders Media. As Kevin said, “The iPad could serve as a simple digital electronic medical record system that communicates easily with pharmacies and other medical record systems.” Well now ClearPractice has accomplished this feat with its new Nimble EHR, an innovative technology delivered via SaaS.
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