SynaptiCore, a Houston-based healthcare IT consulting firm, announced today that it is offering hospitals new milestone-based consulting agreements that link payments for services during an engagement directly to the completion of specific outcomes. In a departure from traditional “time and material” contracts often used in healthcare IT consulting, SynaptiCore’s initiative recognizes that hospitals face an [...]
Healthcare IT Consulting Firm Introduces Milestone-Based Contracts for Hospitals
June 24, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Deinstallation of EMR Systems becoming an issue in Phoenix
June 23, 2009 By Leave a Comment
HealthLeaders-InterStudy, a leading provider of managed care market intelligence, reports that while health systems and physician groups in the Phoenix market seem to be ahead of the curve in adopting electronic medical records (EMR), there is a high rate of “deinstallation” wherein physician groups cancel their EMR contracts as a result of training, functionality or [...]
Learn From Others Before Implementing your Own EMR System
June 22, 2009 By Leave a Comment
If you talk to 10 physician practices after a major technology implementation, you’ll likely get 10 different stories about the lessons they learned. So what is the biggest mistake? Experts say it’s not listening to those doctors and learning from their experiences. Consultants say no matter whether you are a hospital or small physician practice, [...]
Suggested Weekend Reading on EMR and EHR
June 20, 2009 By 2 Comments
First on the list for this weekend is a series of thought provoking posts by John at emrandhipaa.com on the CCHIT certification process. There are three total posts and it’s best to read them order. Thoughts on the New CCHIT EHR Certification Paths Certified EHR and Meaningful Use Real Purpose of EHR Certification The next [...]
Experts advise physicians not to wait on EMR purchase decisions
June 15, 2009 By Leave a Comment
True or false? The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act will provide physician practices incentives for the purchase of an electronic medical record system. False. The ARRA is, indeed, meant to foster health IT adoption. But the incentive money will directly address the use of EMRs, not the purchase of the systems. Secretary of the U.S. [...]
Challenges involved in integrating EMR into existing systems
June 9, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Image via Wikipedia With the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (also referred to as the U.S. economic stimulus package) slated to include $19 billion for electronic medical records (EMR), the role of data storage in the healthcare industry is gaining more attention than ever before. But the healthcare industry is facing the same challenges as [...]
Great Article on Using Server Virtualization to Implement an EHR Solution
June 8, 2009 By 4 Comments
Delivering electronic health records (EHR) to physicians and patients securely and efficiently can be a challenging proposition for health-care facilities. So can implementing virtualization in the data center. Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston undertook both endeavors at the same time. The medical center recently implemented the VMware server virtualization platform from VMware Inc. [...]
Stony Brook University Medical Center uses rolling EMR terminals
June 3, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Image via Wikipedia Because of a new electronic patient record system, Paul Grover, RN, family educator in the child psychiatric unit at Stony Brook (N.Y.) University Medical Center, is well prepared to answer questions about test results, medications, and plans for care with the click of a mouse. After entering his password, Grover can access [...]
Moving Doctors Towards a Paperless System
May 29, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Image by christhedunn via Flickr The Obama administration is nudging the medical industry into making a fundamental shift to a paperless system. The goal is to greatly reduce health care costs. Providers are dumping their paper files and enlisting computers to keep track of their patients’ medical histories. The administration is offering $19 billion to [...]
Technology Advances Benefit Physicians and Patients at Summit Medical Group
May 29, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Electronic Health Records (EHR) are quickly becoming the trend among hospitals and medical practices. EHR include key patient information including: progress notes, problems, medications, vital signs, past medical history, immunizations, laboratory data and radiology reports. EHR have many benefits mostly centered on the elimination of the paper chart. Summit Medical Group in Berkeley Heights [...]
