The economic stimulus bill (the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, or ARRA) provides incentive payments up to a maximum of $44,000 per physician over five years for “meaningfully using health information technology.” Although we don’t yet have definition of “meaningful use,” we can be pretty sure doctors will need to be e-prescribing, exchanging [...]
The slow process of transfering health records to the digital world
May 18, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Image via Wikipedia Walk though a typical Kaiser Permanente doctor’s office or hospital, and you won’t find a paper chart lying around. Kaiser, with 450 hospitals and offices around the country, is almost entirely paperless. But as the rest of the health care industry rushes to follow in Kaiser’s digital footsteps, Kaiser’s paperless success story–a [...]
Fierce Health IT on the need to “Sell” free money with EMR
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Image by davidburn via Flickr As those who read our briefs will see, some HIT vendors have decided that they’re going on a whirlwind tour, intended to sell more physicians on the value of accepting the fat wad of cash being handed out under the stimulus package. Putting aside, for a minute, the foolishness around [...]
Vendor financing becoming an option for EMR
May 18, 2009 By 4 Comments
Image by edkohler via Flickr Upfront costs have long been a major barrier to health IT adoption. So some technology vendors are prepared to offer credit. Vendors who already have a financing mechanism for larger clients buying multimillion-dollar systems are now extending their credit lines to small practices that spend an average of about $30,000. [...]
Eclipsys PeakPractice Solution granted CCHIT Certification
May 18, 2009 By 1 Comment
Eclipsys Corporation, The Outcomes Company, today announced that the Certification Commission for Health Information Technology (CCHIT) has classified Eclipsys’ PeakPractice solution (version 1093) a conditionally CCHIT Certified 08 Ambulatory electronic health record (EHR) product, pending completion of advanced ePrescribing requirements, and the solution meets Certification Commission’s EHR criteria for office-based use. Ambulatory EHRs are designed [...]
Defense Department launches electronic dental records
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The Defense Health Information Management System is in the process of deploying AHLTA Dental, a module included with the new AHLTA 3.3 release. It is the U.S. military’s first integrated dental and medical electronic health record. The deployment began March 17 at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware, Bolling Air Force Base in Washington, D.C., [...]
