Archive for the ‘EHR’ Category

Editor’s note: This article was originally published April 16 on Keith Boone’s Healthcare Standards blog. Special thanks to Keith for allowing us to republish the article in its entirety on HL7Standards.com. Six GOP Senators call for overview of Meaningful Use EHR incentive program was the tweet.  It referenced this link. Which then referred to this report by Senators Thune, [...]

Much has been written about the demise of small and medium-sized EHR vendors. The conventional wisdom is that Stage 2 of Meaningful Use is the dagger to the heart of all but the largest vendors. However, the smart small and medium-sized vendors are pursuing a strategy I’ll outline below that will position them to thrive [...]

Athenahealth was right in the middle of the biggest industry news stories to come out of HIMSS13. While the CommonWell Health Alliance announcement sucked the air out of every other announcement at the conference, athenahealth’s Healthcare Information Technology Code of Conduct proposed a set of five principles they hope can “move the industry foward,” including [...]

First off, I’m no legal expert, but recently I had an interesting conversation with the director of HIT at Texas Medical Association, which represents more than 47,000 physicians in the state. I scheduled the call because we wanted to learn more about (and hopefully help them with) the hurdles smaller, clinic-based physicians are encountering when [...]

“No, cellphones at the dinner table!” My husband said this to my daughter a few weeks ago. She’s not a teenager (she’s 20 months old), and it wasn’t a real cellphone. It was a hand-held Tetris game that she likes to hold up to her ear and say, “Hello? Hello? K, bye.” Nevertheless, no cellphones [...]

I have always been drawn to Lean business concepts and how they seem to cut to the chase, literally going after the waste in process and looking at facts rather than feelings. Coming from a behavioral health background, I understand how change can create feelings that may be confused with facts, and I wanted to [...]

In November 2011, the Institute of Medicine released the report, “Health IT and Patient Safety: Building Better Systems for Better Care.”  The report looked at the effects of health IT on patient safety. Most health IT professionals would say technology has the potential to improve patient safety—think bar coded medications and improved legibility of physician orders [...]

In Healthcare IT News, the front cover screams with the headline “EHR Usability: A Love/Hate Relationship.” Two things are certain: EHRs may not have solved the usability challenge. EHRs will solve the usability challenge. We are experiencing a huge transition of moving patient records from paper and folders to electronic entry and sharing. Just as [...]

Lately, I’ve been hearing quite a bit about global cancer care. I shouldn’t be surprised. The International Agency for Research on Cancer projects that by 2030 the incidence of all cancer cases will be 22.2 million. To learn more about the trend, I visited the Partners in Health website because they recently helped open a  [...]

Ask a group of nurses why they chose their particular career path and you’ll get the following answers: “I was always helping my pets/friends/siblings when I was a kid.” “I wanted to help people.” “I read Cherry Ames books.” “I just always wanted to be a nurse.” “I was born to be a nurse.” These [...]