Category Archives: Electronic Health Record

Electronic Health Record

Smart EHR and CPOE Google Plus Hangout

Posted on May 14, 2013 by John

Note: For those who couldn’t attend the live hangout, the recorded video is embedded below. What: A Google+ Video Hangout with John Lynn, Sean Benson, and Andre L’Heureux discussing the latest topics and developments around EMR, CPOE and CDS. Date: Thursday, May … Continue reading →

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Cool is Great, but ICD-10 Is About Payment

Posted on May 8, 2013 by John

I got the following email from a practice manager: But here is a monster of a question for EMR/EHRs: In 510 days, ICD-10 and its 70,000 plus codes (as opposed to ICD-9′s 14,000 codes) will be on the necks of … Continue reading →

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CHIME Calls for Stage 2 Extension in Letter to Senators

Posted on May 6, 2013 by John

CIO organization underscores progress of EHR adoption, highlights importance of standards in Stage 2  ANN ARBOR, MI, May 6, 2013 – Following a request for feedback from Senators in Washington on the status of health IT adoption, the College of Healthcare … Continue reading →

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The Ethics of Service Outages in Electronic Medical Records

Posted on April 29, 2013 by Dr. Michael West

I love my electronic medical record. Life is very different and much more appreciated in the digital, uber-organized, instantly available, anywhere, anytime world of EMRs. Thank the heavens that they are here to save us, both healthcare providers and patients. … Continue reading →

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EHR Certification Revoked for EHRMagic

Posted on April 26, 2013 by John

Yesterday HHS released news that they’d revoked the EHR certification of the EHRMagic-Ambulatory and EHRMagic-Inpatient EHR software. Looks like InoGard originally certified the EHR and they and ONC received information that had them retest the EHR software and it failed … Continue reading →

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EHR Incentive Sequestration and Guidance on Meaningful Use Attestation

Posted on April 25, 2013 by John

The CMS website has a great resource with answers to a number of FAQs. For example, here’s two questions that related to sequestration’s impact on EHR incentive and meaningful use attestation. Question: Will incentive payments earned in the Medicare and Medicaid … Continue reading →

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NY Patient Portal Prototypes and Voting

Posted on April 15, 2013 by John

The NYeC has put together a patient portal design challenge to provide the best patient portal for New Yorkers. It’s a pretty cool challenge and they have 14 prototypes that are participating in the current voting. I’ve copied an email … Continue reading →

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EHR Incentive Money and Sequestration Update

Posted on April 11, 2013 by John

At HIMSS, the news was tweeted out about the impact of Sequestration on Meaningful Use and EHR incentive money. I’d seen little other details about the impact of sequestration on the EHR incentive money until now. CMS just sent out … Continue reading →

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Healthcare Document Management Infographic

Posted on April 2, 2013 by John

I’m always a fan of the various healthcare infographics that are put out and the same is true from the healthcare document management infographic that was published by Globodox. The infographic highlights one of the myths that exists in healthcare … Continue reading →

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Ingenious Med’s New Scheduling Tab

Posted on March 26, 2013 by John

Ingenious Med’s new scheduling tab allows outpatient physicians to easily sync the existing impower platform with the new patient scheduling feature.

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