Archive for the ‘Healthcare IT’ Category

We’ve all heard it. Nurses loathe, despise, resist (your adjective of choice) EMR and HIT. It’s been said so frequently that it’s often taken as fact. Heck I’ve even written, on this very blog, about how to get resistant RNs on board with new technology. So I was simultaneously surprised, embarrassed and proud when I [...]

You can read about the shift happening. The news is now in mainstream publications, with a daily drumbeat of updates from health IT trade magazines, websites, and blogs. You can see the shift happening. If you visited a hospital or physician practice this year, you may have seen electronic records. You can sense the shift [...]

HIMSS reports that although its clinicians are accessing information through a mobile device, only 38 percent say they have a policy in place that regulates the use of mobile devices and outlines a mobile strategy. HIMSS released the results of its First Annual Mobile Technology Survey at the 2011 mHealth Summit in Washington D.C. this [...]

The primary characteristic of a CDA document is that it must be readable by humans. The CDA specification states that, “human readability guarantees that a receiver of a CDA document can algorithmically display the clinical content of the note on a standard Web browser.” This requirement means that a clinician or patient can take a [...]

The Institute of Medicine (IOM) released a report Tuesday stating that an independent agency – aside from the FDA — is needed to investigate deaths and injuries that may be caused by health IT, in particular electronic health records. The report recommended that the new agency should be modeled after the Transportation Safety Board. According [...]

As many in health IT know, medical software implementation specialists often spend a considerable amount of time working on site at the hospital, working hand-in-hand with the facility’s IT staff to ensure their products are working properly and to make sure the client has a good understand of how the technology can be used. Bernard [...]

I am not the first, and probably will not be the last one. I had my doubts about certain aspects of health care social media. Most of my value concerns were focused on Twitter. For at least four years, I have been an active healthcare and technology blogger, and the content and subsequent discussions found [...]

EMR’s provide value. Integrating those EMRs together provides vastly more value. Without EMRs, there is no electronic data to move. However, once the data exists, it is much more valuable if it can be summarized, moved, and shared. Is the “EMR Revolution” about putting computers and software in doctor offices or about connecting those applications [...]

Healthcare integration is happening at the local levels, not all at the HIE or RHIO level There used to be a saying that “all politics is local,” meaning that how to get elected or get things done was at the local level. This was the idea behind a post several months ago entitled All Healthcare Integration [...]

Massachusetts requires hosptials to use CCHIT-certified EHRs and COPE systems by 2012 and 2015 respectively. Massachusetts recently passed a law requiring hospitals and certain other organizations to use interoperable electronic health applications. One key part of the story is that, by law, the systems must be CCHIT Certified. There is good, broad coverage at FCW.com. As is [...]