EHR Experts

By Chelsey Ledue

WASHINGTON – After signing the healthcare reform bill into law on March 23, President Barack Obama traveled to Iowa and Maine to promote his vision, which includes the role of healthcare IT in saving lives and cutting cost.
Obama visited Iowa City, Iowa on March 25 and Portland, Maine on April 1.
At the [...]

Filed under: EHR, Electronic Health Records on May 12th, 2010 | 1 Comment »

By Rich Silverman
There are hundreds and hundreds of Electronic Health Record software packages in the marketplace that claim to be capable of allowing you to establish meaningful use, but how do you know if those claims are true?  So far there has not been an impartial, independent way to determine the truthfulness of a vendor’s [...]

Filed under: EHR, Electronic Health Records on April 23rd, 2010 | 1 Comment »

Two years after Barack Obama’s presidential campaign pledge to vastly increase usage of electronic health records (EHRs), the White House is following through.
The Obama administration is implementing aggressive and expensive plans rooted in the president’s belief that EHRs are crucial to health care modernization and cost containment, says David Blumenthal, the Harvard information technology expert [...]

Filed under: EHR, Electronic Health Records on March 25th, 2010 | No Comments »

By Neil Versel
Health Level Seven has published the health IT industry’s first ANSI-approved standard for using EHR information in clinical research. The standard–known as Electronic Health Record Clinical Research Functional Profile and based on the HL7 EHR System Functional Model Release 1–is a roadmap for integrating data to support both patient care and clinical research [...]

Filed under: EHR, EHR companies, Electronic Health Records on November 18th, 2009 | No Comments »

By Mary Mosquera
Healthcare providers will have the option to use electronic health record systems to report Medicare quality and electronic prescribing measures to CMS in some of its pay-for-performance programs next year, according to an announcement by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
The revisions are designed “to promote adoption and use of electronic health [...]

Filed under: ARRA, EHR, Health Care on November 4th, 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 »

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 »

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 | 1 Comment »

By Don A. Solberg, MD, Kathryn L Houck and Jim Roberts

Successful electronic health record (EHR) adoption not only improves quality of care by making patient information easily accessible, it also provides valuable clinical decision support. In addition, organizations benefit from streamlined operations — enabling physicians to spend less time on charting and documentation, and [...]

Filed under: Electronic Health Records on September 21st, 2009 | No Comments »