At times, it seems that healthcare is stuck in a time warp. At many hospitals, you’ll see doctors still using faxes while administrators input data into giant, blocky computers running on Windows XP.This is puzzling. After all, technology is quite advanced: we can store documents on the cloud, link together networks of smart devices, or even use algorithms to gather and analyze massive reams of data. So why do healthcare facilities look like they’re trapped in the 1990s?The answer lies in
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AMIA Pushes ONC for More Transparency with How Cures Mandated EHR Reporting Program Performs with Live Patient Data
In comments submitted to the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC), the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) questioned the constrained scope of the EHR Reporting Program to “provide publicly available, comparative information on certified health IT,” to “inform acquisition upgrade, and customization decisions that best support end users’ needs.” In response, the nation’s informatics professionals strongly recommended that the EHR Reporting Program measure
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DocuTAP Integrates with Urgent Care Group to Enable Seamless Scaling and Improved Efficiency
DocuTAP, a provider of electronic medical records (EMR) and practice management (PM) software for urgent care centers, announced a strategic new partnership with Urgent Care Group (UCG), a Nashville-based urgent care company. Urgent Care Group will use DocuTAP companywide and has implemented DocuTAP’s EMR and PM software solutions in their seven MEDcare Urgent Care centers across South Carolina in Anderson, Spartanburg, Columbia, and Charleston.Prior to the acquisition of MEDcare Urgent Care
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5 Fundamental Strategies of A Successful Health IT Implementation
When it comes to improving performance and efficiency, the right health IT solution can only take you so far. Phillips Blue Jay Consulting’s JoAnn Lazarus explains. From EHRs and PHM platforms to telemedicine and wearables, technology continues to change the healthcare landscape. However, when it comes down to it, what’s required to enable successful HIT implementation is pretty basic—collaboration and communication. “All too often, new technology is implemented without involving staff in the
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Cerner Establishes Team of Industry Leaders to Support VA EHR Modernization Project
Cerner, today announced it has established a team of industry leaders and innovators with extensive experience in large enterprise systems and commercial sectors to support the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) EHR modernization project and provide seamless care to our nation's Veterans.The team of leaders includes a who's who of industry leaders including Leidos, Guidehouse, Accenture, Henry Schein Inc., AbleVets LLC, MicroHealth, ProSource360 and 17 additional businesses, many of which
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Hospital Culture: 4 Best Practices for Evidence-based Medicine Adoption
Does your organization follow evidence-based care guidelines? Do you currently utilize evidence-based content in your EHR? Do your clinicians embrace practices based on the best and most current clinical evidence?If your hospital has not yet fully adopted evidence-based medicine, yet wants to move in that direction, an important first step is to assess your organization’s readiness, starting with an examination of the hospital’s culture. As I travel across the country in my job, I often
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Heal Brings Apple Unified Health Records to Doctor House Calls
Heal, the market-leader in house calls, today supports Health Records on iPhone, which brings together hospitals, clinics, and the existing Apple Health app to make it easy for patients to see their available medical data from multiple providers whenever they choose. Heal is in-network with all major PPO insurance plans in California, Washington D.C., and Northern Virginia, and is expanding to other locations across the country. Previously, patients’ medical records were held in multiple
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DrChrono, Genomind Partner on EHR-Integrated Personalized Genetic Tests
EHR provider DrChrono Inc. and Genomind, which offers a unique personalized medicine platform that brings innovation to healthcare around the world, today announce a partnership to meet the growing need from both patients and doctors for personalized genetic tests that integrate with electronic health records.AS part of the partnership, physician practices using DrChrono’s platform can order test kits for Genomind’s Genecept Assay®, which helps guide mental health treatment and has been used by
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EHRs Need More Bananas, Fewer Oranges to Improve Care
Physicians are people, too, as it turns out.Well of course they are, you say, perhaps while acknowledging that we may have expected doctors to perform superhuman feats since television feeds us a steady diet of doctors as boy geniuses, adult geniuses, other types of geniuses and personally troubled but ethically unassailable walking Greek tragedies.In the real world, we know that doctors these days are engaged in very human struggles to pay off massive medical school bills, walk the gauntlet of
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Spectrum Health & Human Services to Implement Cerner’s Community Behavioral Health Cloud
Spectrum Health & Human Services, a Western New York-based provider of behavioral health services has selected Cerner to implement the Cerner Integrated – Community Behavioral Health deployment model designed to meet the unique needs of organizations that treat psychological disorders.The implementation will help support Spectrum’s work to improve the mental well-being of the people it serves throughout its health and human services agency in Western New York. Spectrum will receive a
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