As hospitals and offices transition from paper records to electronic records, one important, often overlooked consideration that organizations need to ensure is adequate system uptime. Very few organizations realize the true cost of a system outage – for example just 15 minutes of downtime for a 5 provider practice can cost over $500. In an effort to raise awareness to this problem, Stratus Technologies has created an infographic outlining the costs of EHR downtime.
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Specialty Article: AMA Report: Standardized EMR Would "Stifle Innovation"
At the 2009 Annual Meeting, the House of Delegates referred Resolution 624-A-09, “Standardized User Interface for all Electronic Medical Records.” The resolution was introduced by the Organized Medical Staff Section (OMSS) and asked that our American Medical Association (AMA): 1. Promote the development and universal adoption of a standardized user interface for all Electronic Medical Records (EMRs); and 2. Advocate for a federal mandate for interoperability of EMRs
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Intuit: QuickBooks, Quicken, QuickEMR?
Intuit is famous for offering its accounting solutions Quicken and QuickBooks for SMBs in many different industry verticals. Could it do the same for healthcare?
Intuit is famous for offering its accounting solutions Quicken and QuickBooks for SMBs in many different industry verticals. Could it do the same for healthcare?
Software Advice (click here to view their website) recently wrote an article that discusses a Intuit Healthcare possibility. One of the things that Intuit does
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Demo of Dell’s Mobile Clinical Computing solution with University Hospital Birmingham
University Hospital of Birminghams' Stephen Chilton and Dell's Hans Solgaard demo Dell's Mobile Clinical Computing solution. What is Mobile Clinical Computing? It's a virtual desktop solution designed for healthcare with features like:- Session transfer- Eased IT manageability- Secure data access- Single sign-on- Location awareness
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Harvard, Boston Children’s open $5,000 app challenge to free EHR data
Researchers at Children’s Hospital Boston and Harvard Medical School this week opened a previously announced competition to develop “iPhone-like” applications to help unlock data stored in electronic health records. While the focus is on Web apps, the federally funded contest is encouraging submissions for mobile tablets, with a promise of “further optimization for smaller screens” such as smartphones by summer.
Children’s and Harvard will award $5,000 for the best application in June and
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One on One with Ryan Howard of Practice Fusion
Here is a great interview of Ryan Howard of Practice Fusion, a free cloud based EMR/EHR that is positioned for explosive growth in the marketplace. Ryan Howard came up with the idea for Practice Fusion in 2005. He wanted to build a new way to manage electronic records. Today, Practice Fusion is a free, ad-supported, fully cloud-based electronic medical records management package with 70,000 users. We asked him about the issues associated with managing this kind of sensitive information in
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David Blumenthal addresses HIMSS Interoperability Showcase
7 Recommendations for Preparing Hospitals for Stages 2 and 3 of Meaningful Use
Even though the final requirements for stage 2 and 3 of meaningful use are yet to be released, the preliminary recommendations made by the Health Information Technology Policy Committee's meaningful use workgroup give a strong hint to what those later stages may require, according to a white paper released by CSC. The meaningful use workgroup's preliminary recommendations include an increased scope or threshold for most stage 1 "core set" measures. For example, one stage 1 core set measure
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EHR Vendor Viability: Rapid Market Evolution is Leaving Some Vendors Behind
Electronic health record (EHR) software vendors aren’t churning out profits like you might expect. You’d think that the Federal subsidies for EHR implementation would create a rising tide that lifted all boats in the EHR software industry. In reality, some vendors are about to capsize.Based on data points I’ve observed in the market over the past few months, I think some vendors are facing a cash flow crunch. They’re thrilled to have the wind at their backs for once, but the pace is
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Additional EHR certification bodies named
In recent weeks, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) has named three additional electronic health record (EHR) authorized testing and certification bodies, aka ONC-ATCBs. The new organizations are ICSA Labs, a security product testing and certification division of Verizon Business based in Mechanicsburg, Pa.; SLI Global Solutions Inc., a Denver-based risk management firm; and Arlington, Va.-based Surescripts LLC, a national e-prescribing network. Those organizations join
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