EHR Experts

According to this report: The National Alliance for Health Information Technology Report to the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology on Defining Key Health Information Technology Terms, there is a distinction between EMR (electronic medical record) and EHR (electronic health record). I don’t think that most people will argue that PHR (personal [...]

Filed under: EHR, Electronic Health Records, Health Care on October 29th, 2009 | No Comments »

By Turna Ray
As more healthcare providers move to implement electronic health records by 2011, the technologies for storing and managing these vast data sets will need to be regulated, an advisor to the federal government said at a conference here this week.
“There is some form of oversight necessary,” John Glaser, senior advisor of the Office [...]

Filed under: EHR, Electronic Health Records on October 29th, 2009 | No Comments »

In an interview published in the New York Times’ “Pogue’s Posts,” National Coordinator for Health IT David Blumenthal discussed federal efforts to promote electronic health record interoperability and ensure the security of heath data.
Interoperability
Blumenthal said his office is undertaking efforts to help different EHR systems connect and share data. He said, ‘We’re gonna be helping [...]

Filed under: EHR, Electronic Health Records, Health Care on October 23rd, 2009 | No Comments »

Kaiser Permanente announced that it has secured about $54 million in NIH grants for an electronic health record data mining project and other medical research initiatives, the San Francisco Business Times reports (Rauber, San Francisco Business Times, 10/12).
The federal economic stimulus package provided the funding for the 22 grants (DerGurahian, Modern Healthcare, 10/12).
EHR Data Mining [...]

Filed under: EHR, Electronic Health Records, Health Care on October 20th, 2009 | No Comments »

By Mary Mosquera
The Health & Human Services Department hopes to exploit electronic heath record systems to reduce the persistent gap in health outcomes that exists between minority communities and the rest of population, an HHS official said today.
Health IT and other technologies would enable providers to collect and share data to help identify minority and [...]

Filed under: EHR, Electronic Health Records, Health Care on October 14th, 2009 | No Comments »

By Mary Mosquera
Dr. David Blumenthal, the national health IT coordinator, said yesterday his office will explain “in the coming weeks” how it will define a “certified” electronic health record,” which providers must purchase in order to qualify for new federal health IT incentive payments.
In an e-mail message, Blumenthal gave a preview of what further guidance [...]

Filed under: EHR, Health Care on October 13th, 2009 | No Comments »

Recently enacted government mandates requiring healthcare practices to switch to electronic health records (EHR) have created a huge demand for EHR systems and services. And since the mandates offer both incentives for early adoption and penalties for delaying EHR conversion, many chiropractors are highly motivated to purchase and install such systems as quickly as possible.
However, [...]

Filed under: EHR, Health Care on October 9th, 2009 | No Comments »

Health care organizations that developed their own electronic health records systems likely will be able to get them certified as being compliant with the meaningful use requirements of the federal EHR incentive program next year.

The Certification Commission for Health Information Technology next year plans to develop a “site certification” program for hospitals and [...]

Filed under: ARRA, CCHIT, EHR, Health Care on October 7th, 2009 | No Comments »

Most people know switching from paper to electronic health records (EHR) can save their practice lots of time and money, while increasing compliance with HIPPA as well. However, some might not be aware the most advanced EHR systems can also facilitate numerous other practice-management tasks.
The leading EHR systems are loaded with a wealth of features [...]

Filed under: EHR, Electronic Health Records on October 7th, 2009 | No Comments »

By Ken Congdon, Healthcare Technology Online
In my coverage of the healthcare technology industry, I’ve noticed that many software and hardware vendors, clinicians, and even some analysts tend to use the terms EMR (electronic medical record) and EHR (electronic health record) interchangeably. However, according to the National Alliance for Health Information Technology (NAHIT), there is a [...]

Filed under: CCHIT, EHR, HL7 on October 7th, 2009 | No Comments »