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Thursday, December 2nd, 2010
Posted in EMR, HL7 Messaging | View Comments
...hey typically find challenges in various aspects of interfacing. One example of the issues that arise is the requirement by the EMR to match on specific patient information. This requirement translates to a lab or diagnostic imaging center that they must ... Read entry ⇒
Friday, August 31st, 2007
Posted in CCD, CCR, CDA, EMR | View Comments
The demand for healthcare interfaces with Electronic Medical Records (EMR) is increasing. This increase is due to the rising adoption of EMR systems, emerging clinical healthcare data standards (HL7, CCR, CDA, CCD, ELINCS), and increasing interoperabilit... Read entry ⇒
Tuesday, February 15th, 2011
Posted in EHR, EMR | View Comments
Recently, a colleague pointed out that the Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) published a definition of Electronic Health Record and, essentially, killed the Electronic Medical Record or EMR. The reasoning: “The word ‘health’ cove... Read entry ⇒
Thursday, September 16th, 2010
Posted in EMR, HITECH, Integration Insights | View Comments
After working on EMR interfaces to the referring community for a couple of years now, one of the customers that I worked with is an independent imaging center, Austin Radiological Association, came up with the following steps to EMR interfacing. You may ... Read entry ⇒
Tuesday, January 11th, 2011
Posted in EMR, Healthcare Integration | View Comments
...evenue due to greater efficiency and capacity and overall patient satisfaction. One of the many challenges in interfacing to an EMR system, though, is patient identification and matching. Why? When electronic results go into an EMR system, they need to li... Read entry ⇒
Friday, March 7th, 2008
Posted in Radiology IT, Radiology Workflow | View Comments
A recent article in Radinformatics highlighted the radiology workflow of one of our customers – EPIC Imaging. The article is entitled Look, No Hands: Reports Go Directly to Referrer EMRs. As the title implies, the article is about how EPIC Imaging ... Read entry ⇒
Thursday, October 16th, 2008
Posted in EMR | View Comments
There is a great article in Physicians Practice entitled “Technology: The Road to EMR Interoperability.” Key points of the article include: The article highlights key reasons why there are so many standards in existence today, and it makes s... Read entry ⇒
Wednesday, September 15th, 2010
Posted in EMR, HITECH, Integration Insights | View Comments
There seems to be a greater demand for interfacing to EMRs today. With the HITECH and ARRA push, we find that more healthcare facilities, like hospitals, imaging centers, and laboratories, are trying to find, and use, a magic wand. Unfortunately, there i... Read entry ⇒
Thursday, February 15th, 2007
Posted in CCD, CCR, CDA, EHR, EMR, HL7 Standards | View Comments
...rthwhile and needed. Regardless, it creates confusion in the marketplace as to which standard to use or ask for when evaluating EMR and EHR systems as well as in determining the overall connected healthcare community strategy for a hospital, lab, clinic, ... Read entry ⇒
Monday, January 4th, 2010
Posted in EHR, EMR, Meaningful Use | View Comments
Vendors race to certify their applications to ensure certification by 2011 and meet Meaningful Use requirements. Have doctor’s (i.e., potential customers of these EMR/EHR applications) shifted the requirements from new, innovative functionality for their... Read entry ⇒
