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How to avoid the top 3 EHR contracting pitfalls
Special contribution by Jeffery Daigrepont, Senior Vice President, the Coker Group It seems inevitable that every practice will eventually be on an electronic health record (EHR) system. Making the
SPOTLIGHT: Getting a grip on HIT terminology
Here at FierceHealthIT, I use the term "EMR" rather than "EHR" to describe electronic records, as I believe the word "health" in the latter is unnecessarily vague. But that's just one editor's
EMR vendor offers free, limited physician access
It's the age-old "give them a taste and they'll buy" routine. RemedyMD, a Sandy, UT.-based electronic health records vendor, has agreed to give ambulatory practice physicians' offices a free license
IT vendor Misys refocuses on ambulatory software
After enduring intense scrutiny--and months of rumors about its future--software vendor Misys Healthcare has put a stake in the ground, selling its hospital division and returning its focus to
Case study: WI hospital portal improves access
When IT managers at Milwaukee's Children's Hospital and Health System got started with development, all they had in mind was a single-sign in project that would simplify access to the hospital's many clinical applications. Over time, however, they realized that aggregating data from those applications was just as important. To launch the project, which took two years to implement, Children's spent about $500,000, including $300,000 in development costs. IT managers found it relatively …
Editor's Corner
This week, blogger and consultant William Bryson of Innovative IT for Healthcare outlined an approach which seems may solve some of the key issues dogging the emergence of RHIOs. As I see it the idea, EHR/EMR "banking," certainly has …
Docs praise EHR value
The next time your CEO pours cold water on your EHR project, shoot him a copy of this article. When the Vioxx recall hit in late September 2004, it was almost a yawner for Dr. Peter Basch. "It took us two or three minutes to figure out which of our patients were on it," says Basch, who is part of an eight-doctor practice in Washington, D.C. That two to three minutes was all it took to structure and execute a search in the practice's electronic records database. Basch says that the Vioxx …
