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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Allscripts Remote Android EMR Video
Allscripts Remote Android EMR , a video shows the initial screens of the electronic medical records (EMR) or electronic health records (EHR) program, Allscripts Remote, for the Android phone.
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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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2011 Key EHR Dates Deadlines
Here is a list of a few key EHR incentives deadlines for 2011
Jan. 3, 2011 — Registration for the Medicare EHR incentive program begins.April 2011 — Attestation for the Medicare EHR incentive program begins.May 2011 — Issuing of Medicare EHR incentive payments expected to begin.July 3, 2011 — Last day for eligible hospitals to begin their 90-day reporting period to demonstrate meaningful use for the Medicare EHR incentive program for federal fiscal year 2011.Sept. 30, 2011 — Federal fiscal
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