Chris Taylor, The Successful Workplace
“There are real challenges with Electronic Medical Records (EMR) beyond getting doctors to write things down (a feat in itself). Healthcare providers are being pushed to adopt EMR, but few are at Stage 7, shown at right.
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Dave Chase, KevinMD
“More and more providers see the value of providing patient portals. In an attempt to be responsive, EMR vendors are providing patient portals that have some limited capabilities (get lab results, email your doctor and possibly fill out a form requesting an appointment).
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Kevin Featherly, HITExchange
“Frederick Finelli is medical director of operating rooms at Washington Hospital Center, the biggest hospital in the nation’s capital. He knows his way around an electronic health record, yet trying to navigate the myriad clinical information systems that he must work with can be frustrating.
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Dave Chase, Forbes
“In 2006, Microsoft acquired a health care computing system called Amalga, which aggregates health care data so doctors and hospitals can draw broader conclusions and patients can use it for better care.
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Rosie Lombardi, Technology for Doctors Online
“Many doctors believe that better frontline communications with patients, combined with electronic communication between clinics and hospitals, can improve health outcomes. To collect test this notion, Telus Health Solutions is running three pilot projects with EMR vendors Wolf Medical, QHR Technologies and KinLogix Medical.
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Zina Moukheiber, Forbes
“The government-mandated push to implement electronic health records is supposed to centralize patient data, and reduce human medical errors in the process. However, EHRs can introduce a different set of errors, namely software glitches.
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Andrew Moesel, interopwg
“A group of states and vendors focused on eliminating the barriers to sharing electronic health records (EHRs) today issued a set of technical specifications to standardize connections between healthcare providers, health information exchanges (HIEs) and other data-sharing partners.
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Neil Versel, InformationWeek
“Recognizing that electronic health records (EHRs) can and do cause medical errors, a group of EHR vendors has agreed to support a patient-safety organization’s online system for reporting adverse events.
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Neil Versel, InformationWeek
“The rapid movement toward electronic health records (EHRs) may unwittingly raise physician risk for malpractice lawsuits and push liability insurers to raise their premiums, a new report suggests.
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John Moore, The Health Care Blog
“Another year, another Health 2.0 under the belt. This being the fourth time attending it is interesting to see how this event and its participants have evolved.
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John, EMR and HIPAA
“Many of you might remember my recent post about EMR Performance Issues (ie. EMR Slowness). Turns out, the post had a pretty big impact on some readers of the site. In fact, it sounds like it was partially therapeutic for some to realize that they’re not alone.
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HealthImaging
“To ensure practitioners’ expectations—for instance, regarding improvements in medication safety—are met, vendors should develop and implement refinements in their software as practices upgrade to newer, certified EHRs, was the finding of a recent clinical study published Aug. 28 online in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association.
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Reda Chouffani, Meaningful Health Care Informatics Blog
“Due to the recent ARRA stimulus package signed into law, several healthcare organizations have shifted gears in their search for the perfect EHR solution. This excited many of the software vendors in the market place and spurred economic growth in the healthcare IT field.
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Joe Lavelle, Healthcare IT Today
“My last post explained how the system in healthcare IT was flawed and how it was important for buyers of healthcare IT systems to understand the limitations of the system in order to achieve the results they expect from the system.
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Pamela Lewis Dolan, amednews
“Electronic medical record vendors are taking steps to ensure not only that their products have all the bells and whistles required under meaningful use rules, but also that the products are easy for physicians to use.
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Anthony Guerra, InformationWeek Healthcare
“The HIMSS Electronic Health Record Association (EHRA) is pleased that the Accountable Care Organization (ACO) Notice of Proposed Rulemaking isn’t overly prescriptive as to how entities must use health information technology.
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Evan Steele, EMR Straight Talk
“Meaningful use is complex enough without having to sort fact from fiction when it comes to the rules, regulations, and requirements. It irks me when I hear the misinformation being disseminated by some EHR vendors in their attempts to sell their products to physicians who are not fully steeped in the nuances of the program.
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Mike, eHealth Musings
“Since the start of the new year I have heard about significant management changes at a number of Canadian EMR vendors. The most recent such change is the departure of Healthscreen’s CEO, Justin Belobaba.
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Jim Sabogal's Blog
“We are not at a point where we can effectively: total, safely protect, easily transport and access our health data. I read a great article by Margalit Gur-Arie entitled, “Trust your life records to an unnamed chain of software vendors” she uses an analogy of our current banking system to emphasize how far away we are from gaining the trust around our health records data. Great article and highly recommended. This got me thinking about how we manage our data today?
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Austin Merritt, Health 2.0 News
“The answer to that question is a surprisingly resounding “No!” The medical software industry is far from supporting the iPad on a meaningful scale. Buyers would think that vendors eager to grow market share would quickly adopt new, flashy technologies, but software vendors are surprisingly slow to react. Electronic health records vendors need to get on board or face the prospect of losing market share to faster-moving competitors.
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