7 Tips to Help Improve EHR Etiquette
It’s been a while since I’ve written, but only because my practice has been booming lately and I’ve barely had a moment to breathe here in DC. But I’m back now, and for who knows how long given the...
View ArticleThe Ethics of Service Outages in Electronic Medical Records
I love my electronic medical record. Life is very different and much more appreciated in the digital, uber-organized, instantly available, anywhere, anytime world of EMRs. Thank the heavens that they...
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Why I will never buy another computer… I think
Few things come along that can change the way I “compute”, if you can call it that anymore. However, during the past Memorial Day weekend, I bought a small Logitech keyboard to go with my iPad mini and...
View ArticleEMRs Can Enhance Patient Engagement
The following is a guest post by Scott Zimmerman, President of TeleVox Software, Inc, whose bio appears below. It’s well known that when EMRs are partnered with patient engagement technology,...
View ArticleReinventing the EMR wheel
Going to dictate this one. I’m really trying hard lately to get back into the blogging mode, although it’s been a busy year, I’ll have to admit. From bringing on a fourth provider to running through...
View ArticleFCC highlights ONC Office for Consumer e-Health plans for 2014
One of the things I would like to get back in the habit of in the new year is to contribute more again to this blog, which I started in 2009 with help from John Lynn at Healthcarescene.com. Part of...
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Electronic medical records with community health and the environment in mind
My thought for today focuses on how using electronic medical records helps us maintain the health of our communities by keeping the environment in mind, which ultimately promotes health for all....
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Sandals, the Middle East and electronic medical records — symbols of partnership
Sandals… what a powerful symbol for today’s blog post. Apolis Middle East Project is an interesting short film that documents the partnership for business purposes of two groups of workers on each...
View ArticleEMRs costly to health system
A recent New York Times article caught my eye the other day. The author focused on the seeming corruption of physicians bilking patients out of tons of money for unnecessary procedures and the havoc...
View ArticleTablets going away in the future?
Recently, I was contacted by a reader who attended the recent Startup Weekend in Madison. He asked me about my thoughts on using tablet computers to work with an EMR system. I told him that, although...
View ArticleConsumers Use Fitness Bands Track Symptoms Of Illegal Drug Use
Over the last few years, providers have begun to do more and more with patient-generated health data. Much of this data has come from fitness bands such as the Fitbit or Apple Watch, whose data adds...
View ArticlePhysicians Lack IT Tools Needed For Value-Based Care
A new study sponsored by Quest Diagnostics has concluded that progress toward value-based care has slowed because physicians lack the IT tools they need. In fact, the survey of health plan executives...
View ArticlePhysicians Are (Justfiably) Ambivalent About Virtual Care
It’s easy for pundits like myself to support virtual care. From my standpoint, it’s obvious that virtual care is the easiest and most effective way to handle many health conditions, from handling...
View ArticleAn EHR Twitter Roundup
If you want to know how doctors feel about their EHR software, all you have to do is look at Twitter. There are doctors complaining all of the time about their EHR and the impact it’s having on their...
View ArticleeClinicalWorks Faces Additional Fine For Violating Terms Of Fraud Settlement
In mid-2017, the news broke that EHR vendor eClinicalWorks had agreed to pay $155 million to settle a whistleblower lawsuit brought by a former employee. The government had accused the company of...
View ArticleLet Vendors Lead The Way? Are You Nuts?
Every now and then, a vendor pops up and explains how the next-gen EHR should work. It’s easy to ask yourself why anyone should listen, given that you’re the one dishing out the care. But bear with me....
View ArticlePhysician Revolt Against EHRs – Unlikely to Happen
Physicians hate EHRs. Yes, there are a few exceptions, but it’s pretty rare to find a physician that loves their EHR. There are a fair number of them that are apathetic towards their EHR, but there are...
View ArticleThe Latest Look At How Physicians Share PHI Electronically
Over the last several years, I’ve read many a report on physicians’ sharing of health data. The key metrics most observers use to measure these efforts are how often physicians send and receive data...
View ArticleHPV Surveillance Project Reminds Us Why HIEs Still Matter
When healthcare organizations use EHR data to improve care or streamline processes, it seems like an obvious way to go. There are many benefits to doing so – certainly far more than I could cover in a...
View ArticleAI-Based Tech Could Speed Patient Documentation Process
A researcher with a Google AI team, Google Brain, has published a paper describing how AI could help physicians complete patient documentation more quickly. The author, software engineer Peter Lui,...
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