Tag Archives: Hospital EMR Vendor

Will Next Generation EMRs Be Platform + Stack of Apps?

Posted on April 27, 2012 by Anne Zieger

For quite some time new — at least a couple of years — mobile apps have been appearing on the market to assist physicians with key portions of their work.  That’s good as far as it goes, but unfortunately, most … Continue reading →

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Hospitals: Urgent Care Centers Are Ready To Buy (Incompatible) EMRs

Posted on April 19, 2012 by Anne Zieger

Hospitals, if you’re going to have input into how urgent care firms choose their EMR, now is the time. According to a new study from your friend and mine, KLAS, urgent care players are growing and ready to add an … Continue reading →

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HIMSS: Its Time Has Come And Gone

Posted on February 15, 2012 by Anne Zieger

Now, don’t get me wrong: I love big trade shows. So you can be certain that I enjoy the heck out of HIMSS, which I’ve attended off and on since it took place in Phoenix in the early 90s. In … Continue reading →

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Is EMR Interoperability A Pipe Dream?

Posted on January 28, 2012 by Anne Zieger

In theory, interoperability between vendors offers the vendors some rewards.  In particular, by making in possible for customers to link up between their own and their competitors’ systems, they broaden the market substantially, as customers aren’t afraid of getting locked … Continue reading →

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Unfortunately, Epic Seeing Growth Explosion

Posted on January 25, 2012 by Anne Zieger

Let me be candid here: I’m not too pleased with the progress of Epic as the hospital system of choice. Experience tells me that once a vendor becomes the default choice, seemingly due as much to C-suite peer pressure as technical … Continue reading →

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Hospital EMR Crashes And Burns Because Community Docs Hate It

Posted on January 4, 2012 by Katherine Rourke

While we may argue over the stats — is it 30 percent, 40 percent, even 50 percent? — everyone knows that the failure rates for hospital EMR installations are frighteningly high. So it never hurts to look at specific cases … Continue reading →

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Hospital System Builds EMR Buy-In Using Social Media

Posted on January 2, 2012 by Katherine Rourke

If you’re like most IT leaders, you’re used to leaving the social media efforts to your marketing department. But maybe you’re missing out. Here’s a nice example of how hospital CIOs can use social media to move EMR buy-in ahead using … Continue reading →

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Centricity Gets FDA 510(k) Clearance for Mobile Radiology App

Posted on December 2, 2011 by Katherine Rourke

There’s lots of interesting things doctors can do when they can access medical data on the road — and the number of options has increased rapidly over the past year or two. Until recently, though, mobile imaging apps were uncommon, for reasons … Continue reading →

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Industry Does Too Little, Too Late On HIT-Related Safety Issues

Posted on November 11, 2011 by Katherine Rourke

This week, a pair of HIT organizations — including a HIMSS-backed group and an alliance focused on HIT safety — came together to help track HIT-related patient safety problems. The two groups have broad-based vendor support, and they seem to have … Continue reading →

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A Split Verdict On MEDITECH V.6 EMR: It Stinks, But We’ll Take It

Posted on November 3, 2011 by Katherine Rourke

So, here’s a neat little report from KLAS which, as far as we can tell, hasn’t gotten a lot of attention.  I think you’ll find it to be quite interesting, though sort of depressing as well. A couple of weeks … Continue reading →

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