A lot of the Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt (FUD) regarding Electronic Medical Records (EMRs) and Personal Health Records (PHRs) seems driven by an assumption that people don’t understand the trade-offs involved in creating and accessing online records. Those fears are overblown, according to a study to be published in next month’s Journal of General Internal Medicine. [...]
Picis ED PulseCheck Achieves CCHIT Certification for Emergency Department EHR Criteria
May 19, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Picis, Inc. announced today that ED PulseCheck version 4.0, part of the CareSuite family of high-acuity solutions, is now a Certification Commission for Health Information Technology (CCHIT) Certified 08 Emergency Department Electronic Health Record. This product certification provides an objective set of criteria for measuring health information technology products, enabling many buyers to narrow their [...]
Maryland law will allow state to put stimulus cash toward electronic health records
May 19, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Image via Wikipedia Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley will sign legislation Tuesday that provides incentives for health care organizations to implement electronic health records. House Bill 706 allows the state to make use of federal stimulus dollars available for electronic health records and coordinate those efforts with the state’s own plan to create a state wide [...]
Could the EHR timeline in the stimulus bill be unrealistic?
May 19, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Image by Getty Images via Daylife Lawmakers might have underestimated how long it would take the healthcare industry to implement new healthcare information technology when setting a timeline for its adoption under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, one prominent healthcare official says. Under the ARRA, legislators set out a timeline for the adoption of [...]
EMR and EHR – Is there a difference?
May 19, 2009 By 6 Comments
By Leslie Ann Fox, MA, RHIA, and Patricia T. Sheridan, MBA, RHIA Leslie: I’ve noticed during the past several months that there is a discussion being played out in health care trade journals regarding the difference between the electronic medical record (EMR) and the electronic health record (EHR). It’s an interesting discussion. Patty: I don’t [...]
Electronic Medical Records – What do patients want?
May 19, 2009 By Leave a Comment
As President Barack Obama calls for streamlining heath care by fully converting to electronic medical records and as Congress prepares to debate issues of patient privacy, one question has largely gone unasked: What do patients want? A qualitative study led by a research team at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) helps answer that question. [...]
