Nurses And PAs Use Digital Resources More Than Docs
Generally speaking, the push toward EMRs is designed to change how doctors use digital resources and structure how they interact with other professionals. As it turns out, though, there may be more...
View ArticleStudy Suggests Most HIEs Aren’t Sustainable
According to an EHR Intelligence piece, most HIEs spend more than $1 million per year on operational expenses. That number is probably well on the low end for regional HIEs with multiple health system...
View Article37 Seconds To Chart Encounter on Peds EMR
If you’re like me, you’ll probably be a bit surprised (pleasantly) by the following video, which can be found embedded in an equally interesting blog post on EMR feature-creep or “featuritis” by Dr....
View ArticleThings You Won’t Hear Hospital EMR Customers Say
My colleague John recently wrote an item offering a list of comments you’re not likely to hear EMR-using doctors say to one another. (It’s a great read — you should check it out! ) Not to be outdone,...
View ArticleFeds Claim Hospitals Are Using EMRs For Upcoding
Geez, you can’t win for losing these days. First the feds put enormous pressure on hospitals to near-bankrupt themselves buying sophisticated EMRs and meet Meaningful Use standards. Now, as a piece in...
View ArticleFCC Says Wireless Health Should Be “Routine” Within Five Years
This week, the FCC made an announcement which, I think, is likely to have far-reaching implications, including for providers, hospitals, wireless vendors and medical device makers. *So* much is going...
View ArticleProviders Behind The Eight Ball On HIEs
ONCHIT is demanding them. Patients are beginning to understand them. But poor ol’ beleaguered HIEs still aren’t getting the attention they deserve, it seems. A new survey by patient care organization...
View ArticleONC Wants 1,000 More Smaller Hospitals To Be Meaningful Users
As I’ve written about here in the past, small rural/critical access hospitals are struggling to keep up with Meaningful Use. These hospitals — typically 50 beds or less — are isolated, underfunded,...
View ArticleHealthcare Cloud Spending Slated For Major Growth
Hospitals may still be ambivalent about using the cloud for clinical data transport, but attitudes are likely to undergo a major change over the next few years, according to research firm...
View ArticleContest Offers Prizes For CCD Redesign
When EMRs are the gossip of the week at TechCrunch (a popular tech startup website), you know our little EMR thang has gone mainstream. And TechCrunch is indeed one of a series of sites trumpeting the...
View ArticleInteroperability Problems Undercut Conclusions of CHIME Most Wired Survey
Most of you have probably already seen the topline results from CHIME’s “Healthcare’s Most Wired: National Trends 2018” study, which was released last month. Some of the more interesting numbers...
View ArticleWhat’s the Future of Open Source EHR, Vista?
I was going through some old draft posts (as I mentioned yesterday) and found a post that was started by Nate DiNiro which said “Will the VA and DoD help tip the scales on VistA adoption with OSEHRA?”...
View ArticleApple Health, Opioid Challenge, Safety Risk Heat Maps, and athenahealth...
We’re back again with a quick roll around Twitter in a round up of some of the interesting tweets we’ve seen shared. This was quite a diverse set of tweets, so I think there will be something of...
View ArticleSharing Records with Patients is the Right Thing to Do – OpenNotes
I’ve been a big fan of the OpenNotes effort for a long time. While I’ve heard every excuse in the business for why patients shouldn’t have access to their chart, all of those reasons have fallen flat....
View ArticleAI May Be Less Skilled At Analyzing Images From Outside Organizations
Using AI technologies to analyze medical images is looking more and more promising by the day. However, new research suggests that when AI tools have to cope with images from multiple health systems,...
View ArticleLess Than Half of Healthcare Users Trust Critical Organizational Data
If you’re a healthcare CIO, you must hope that your users trust and feel they can leverage data to do their jobs better. However, some of your colleagues don’t seem to be so sure. A new study has...
View ArticleNext Steps In Making Healthcare AI Practical
In recent times, AI has joined blockchain on the list of technologies that just sort of crept into the health IT toolkit. After all, blockchain was borne out of the development of bitcoin, and not so...
View ArticleWhat If You Live Tweeted an EHR Go Live?
Have you ever wondered what an EHR go live is like? Ok, those of you who have been through one probably don’t want to relive that experience and may even have a little PTSD from the experience....
View ArticleWill Chatbots Be Embedded In Health IT Infrastructure Within Five Years?
Brace yourself: The chatbots are coming. In fact, healthcare chatbots could become an important part of healthcare organizations’ IT infrastructure, according to research released by a market analyst...
View ArticleOn the 1st Day of #HITChristmas … Joy Rios from ChirpyBird and HIT Like a...
One day as I was thinking about the holiday season, I was inspired by some people who had sent us 12 gifts to celebrate the 12 days of Christmas. I’ve always loved the 12 days of Christmas ever since...
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