Keys to EMR Success: Selecting and Implementing an Electronic Medical Record (Amazon Affiliate Link), written by Ronald Sterling, CPA, MBA, has won the (HIMSS) Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society 2008 Book of the Year Award. Nancy Collins, President of Greenbranch Publishing says, “We are honored that Ron Sterling’s book has been chosen as Book [...]
Much too confusing – Just tell me which EMR I Should Buy
June 26, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Dozens, perhaps hundreds of vendors and products to choose from. Hardware, pricing and implementation questions. Do I use notebooks, tablets or desktops in exam rooms. What do I do with my room full of paper charts. These are the questions thousands of Doctors are asking themselves when considering an EMR implementation. Rosemarie Nelson, a [...]
Healthcare IT Consulting Firm Introduces Milestone-Based Contracts for Hospitals
June 24, 2009 By Leave a Comment
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Health Providers moving slowly to EMR
May 28, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Image via Wikipedia In New Jersey, and around the country, most doctors still rely on paper records for everything from writing prescriptions to keeping track of their patients’ allergies. Only about 1.5 percent of U.S. hospitals have switched to an electronic records systems, and less than 8 percent have even a basic system, according to [...]
IT Executive Panel Discussion on EMR in Wisconsin
May 27, 2009 By Leave a Comment
At the Digital Healthcare Conference 2009 in Madison, several healthcare executives from University of Wisconsin Hospitals & Clinics along with venture capital investor John Byrnes of Mason Wells answered questions and discussed the role that technology will play in improving the quality of health care delivery. Panelists included John Byrnes, Executive Managing Director, Mason Wells, [...]
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 [...]
