Image via Wikipedia There is a critical element in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) that targets funds for Federally-Qualified Community Health Centers (FQHCs). An FQHC is an organization defined by the Medicare and Medicaid statutes that receives funding under Section 330 of the Public Health Service Act. FQHCs provide primary care services [...]
Top technologies impacting hospital c-suite executives
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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 [...]
File Under ‘Hodgepodge’ – Newsweek May 2, 2009
May 4, 2009 By Leave a Comment
If you’re like most Americans, you like to take responsibility for your own health, even the aspects of it that you find boring, incomprehensible or just icky. You keep detailed records of every doctor’s visit and medication, just like you do for every tax deduction, maybe even in the same shoebox. To read the entire [...]
