Microsoft continues to develop its Surface application for the medical field. Infusion has a good review of its Doctor-Patient Consultation Interface. There is no question there is value in any tool that instructs and informs patients regarding disease processes and treatment options. Nothing quite replaces visual images for educational impact. There is also a nice [...]
Archive for the ‘EHR’ category
Microsoft Surface – Revisited
May 12, 2010The Power of Teamwork
May 4, 2010As any reader of this site will note, I am very interested in the information technology aspects of healthcare. There is no question that governing powers see HIS/HIT as a solution to our difficulties with medical costs and quality. However, as important as these systems will be in helping provide long term solutions, I have [...]
Meaningful Use
April 21, 2010In December of 2009 the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, published its Proposed Rule defining Meaningful Use and began a 60-day period for public commentary. This opportunity for input has recently closed and after reviewing the comments, CMS will issue a final rule. The criteria for meeting Meaningful Use are divided into “Objectives for [...]
Order Sets
April 17, 2010Now that my hospital has committed to implementing an enterprise Electronic Health Record (EHR) that will include Computer Physician Order Management we face the daunting task of converting over 300 paper-based order sets into the electronic format. The project team overseeing this process faces two challenges that have the potential of derailing the the project’s [...]
iPad and Healthcare
April 10, 2010Dr. John Halamka at Life as a Healhcare CIO wrote back in January his impressions of the iPad. His criteria for the ideal clinical device is exactly right. In this first week of commercial availability I’ve seen two iPads in use at the hospital. One of our physicians, a self admitted technophile, had bought one [...]
iPhone and Healthcare
April 7, 2010I use my iPhone regularly when rounding because of the medical app’s it provides – ePocrates, ACLS, Google search, etc. It works well as a clinical decision support tool because it’s wonderfully portable and is always connected to a network. This is a far cry, however, from using the iPhone as an extension of an [...]
eHospital?
March 30, 2010My post on Amalga Hospital Information Systems generated a fair amount of interest and I was asked to expand somewhat on why I believe this is an important initiative. Let me tell you a story. I was working on the in-patient medicine service late last year when I noted a new patient had been admitted [...]
Microsoft Amalga
March 25, 2010The hospital I work for has recently contracted with Microsoft to begin exploring how health care organizations can begin applying the Amalga Hospital Information System to the clinical aspects of patient care. Like almost every hospital in the United States, we struggle with the fact that our patient information is stored across disparate databases. This is the result [...]
Open-Source EMR’s
February 22, 2008If you are considering buying an EMR, or are just checking out the options, I would recommend having a good, hard look at open-source EMR’s. This resource at Health IT is a good place to start. Technorati tags: EMR, Open source, Health
EMR, EHR, PHR, BSHR (well maybe not that last one!)
November 2, 2007It is definitely time we started developing a consensus of what these abbreviations mean. The National Alliance for Health Information Technology is forming a work group to do just that. They are taking applications for volunteers if anyone is interested in participating. Technorati tags: emr, ehr, phr, NAHIT
