Image by Getty Images via Daylife PLYMOUTH MEETING, PA – The ECRI Institute, a nonprofit research firm based in Plymouth Meeting, Penn., has released its top 10 list of health technologies for hospital c-suite executives for 2009. ECRI compiled the list taking into account the convergence of critical economic, patient safety, reimbursement, and regulatory pressures [...]
Paper records in an EMR World
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Image by benuski via Flickr Paper records remain the prevalent avenue of documentation in the majority of today’s provider offices and hospitals. Although most providers have experienced increased use of electronic medical records (EMRs), the abundance of paper records creates a challenging “paper/electronic” hybrid world as it adds a number of risks including increasing the [...]
Great real life story of EHR implementation at Information Week
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Image via Wikipedia Quick — how much federal-government money has been earmarked for electronic health records: $360 million? $3.6 billion? $36 billion? $360 billion? (Anyone for $3.6 trillion?) We are in a time when incomprehensibly large dollar amounts are being tossed around like coins into a wishing well, and after a while the mind can [...]
Industry hopes to help define “Meaningful Use”
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Healthcare providers are antsy to start working toward becoming “meaningful users” of electronic health record technology so that they can claim some of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act’s financial incentives when they become available in fiscal year 2011 and 2012. While providers wait for the government’s definition of “meaningful use” of EHR technology, which [...]
Resistence, while futile, still slows the pace of EHR adoption
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Image by Bárbol via Flickr The purpose of this study is to reassess the projected rate of Electronic Health Record (EHR) diffusion and examine how the federal government’s efforts to promote the use of EHR technology have influenced physicians’ willingness to adopt such systems. The study recreates and extends the analyses conducted by Ford et [...]
Study results of EHR in US Hospitals
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Image via Wikipedia Results of a recent study prepared by the Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA BACKGROUND: Despite a consensus that the use of health information technology should lead to more efficient, safer, and higher-quality care, there are no reliable estimates of the prevalence of adoption of electronic [...]
EHR Emerging as Important Care and Research Tool
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Image via Wikipedia With the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act set to spur their development and implementation, electronic health records (EHRs) are getting a lot of attention while businesses like Google and Wal-Mart have begun to develop their own EHR tools. The widespread adoption of EHRs, however, involves “huge challenges,” acknowledged Dr. David Blumenthal, the National Coordinator [...]
4 Wisconsin hospitals band together to share an EHR environment
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Image via Wikipedia After Congress allocated upward of $19 billion in health information technology funding as part of the economic recovery package, the Sauk City-based Rural Wisconsin Health Cooperative of 35 free-standing hospitals said it could help its member hospitals and critical-access hospitals across the country understand how the legislation works. To read the rest [...]
