Electronic Health Records


EHRs are used in both inpatient and ambulatory settings to document care and share information across departments. Topics include: vendor selection, system deployment, and workflow analysis. On the inpatient side, best-of-breed versus single source is a perennial debate as CIOs automate the widely diverse departments under their purview, such as the surgical suite, radiology and intensive care. On the ambulatory side, group practices wrestle with physician productivity issues and creating interfaces to outside service partners such as labs.


Canadian Telecom Firm Buys EHR Firm

Joseph Goedert | Feb 03
Canadian telecommunications firm TELUS has expanded its health care business division with the acquisition of Wolf Medical Systems, a Canadian vendor of cloud-hosted electronic health records for physician practices.
Group Practices
Vendor News

Survey: Docs Love Mobile Devices, I.T. Departments Don’t

Joseph Goedert | Feb 03
A survey from Spyglass Consulting Group finds widespread physician acceptance of mobile computing devices, but much lower acceptance at the hospitals they work in.
Group Practices
Mobile Technology

Hey, HHS: We Need the Stage 2 and Privacy Rules NOW

Joseph Goedert | Feb 03
The proposed rules for Stage 2 of the electronic health records meaningful use program is in the Office of Management and Budget for review, a clear indication that it should be ready for publication soon.
Policy & Regulation
Group Practices

AMA to Sebelius: Stop ICD-10

Joseph Goedert | Feb 02
The American Medical Association, which is actively working to stop implementation of the ICD-10 code sets, has sent a letter to HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius asking her to immediately halt the implementation process.
Coding
Policy & Regulation

Physician Software Vendor Greenway Medical Goes Public

Joseph Goedert | Feb 02
The stock price of Greenway Medical Technologies rose 20 percent in early trading on Feb. 2 after the physician software vendor conducted a $66.7 million initial public offering of stock.
Vendor News
Group Practices

Study: E-Scripts Improve Medication Adherence

Joseph Goedert | Feb 01
A study of de-identified pharmacy data finds patient-first-fill medication adherence--the number of times a patient actually fills a new prescription--increases by 10 percent when the prescription is electronic.
Medication Management
Health Info Exchange

Building Connections on the Care Continuum

Gary Baldwin | Feb 01
A major success factor for accountable care organizations will be linking caregivers across the spectrum of care delivery. If history is any indication, that's going to be an industrywide struggle.
Disease Management
Health Info Exchange

Safety Engineer

Elizabeth Gardner | Feb 01
Terry Fairbanks started working as a volunteer paramedic right after high school, and kept it up through graduate school.
Hospitals
Group Practices

EHR Game Changer Makes I.T. Fit the Clinician

Greg Gillespie | Feb 01
It's not easy for electronic records to follow anesthesiologists, but this chief medical officer wouldn't take no for an answer.
Group Practices
Document Management

Information Governance: The Essential Accountability Wrapper

Linda Kloss | Feb 01
Building on the foundational concepts in "Stress Testing Health Information Management and Governance" (January edition, p. 42), this article kicks off a series of "getting specific" discussions on information governance and the building blocks of enterprise information management.
Policy & Regulation
Document Management

Mobile Health in the Regulatory Crosshairs

Tracy Granzyk Wetzel | Feb 01
The FDA has its sights set on the m-health space, and some fret that regulation will stop innovation in its tracks.
Mobile Technology
Hospitals

User Unfriendly

Elizabeth Gardner | Feb 01
Physicians gripe that EHRs are not easy to use. But the industry is taking steps to improve performance.
Group Practices
Hospitals

HIT Vendor Round-up: Castlight, MedAssets & Aprima

Joseph Goedert | Jan 31
Several health information technology vendors have recently announced new initiatives, including:
Consumer Health
Decision Support

Laptop Loaded with PHI Stolen from Lexington Clinic

Joseph Goedert | Jan 31
Following the Dec. 7 theft of an unencrypted laptop, Lexington Clinic in Kentucky is notifying 1,018 patients who received services in the neurology department.
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Data Security
Consumer Health

AHIMA: AMA Stance on ICD-10 Should Not Slow Down Work

Joseph Goedert | Jan 30
With the American Medical Association ramping up its fight against the ICD-10 code sets by asking House Speaker John Boehner for assistance in stopping mandated implementation, the American Health Information Management Association is warning against slowing down compliance work.
Coding
Electronic Data Interchange
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