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Is Design Important In Healthcare?
I’ve been in the healthcare delivery business now for 30 years and I can confidently say we’ve paid almost no attention to design. Systems are built around physicians’ desires and workflows, and physicians tend to be quantitative, content-focused and able to handle multiple variables at once. Perhaps that is why we have not put a premium on design. As we get closer to a world where we are engaging patients in their own health outcomes, design will be much more critical. read more (Source: Healthcare IT News Blog)
Source: Healthcare IT News Blog - May 13, 2013 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Joseph C. Kvedar Tags: Industry News Medicare Network Infrastructure Quality and Safety Source Type: blogs

Weekly Australian Health IT Links – 13th May, 2013.
Here are a few I have come across the last week or so. Note: Each link is followed by a title and a few paragraphs. For the full article click on the link above title of the article. Note also that full access to some links may require site registration or subscription payment. General Comment By the time you read this we will be very close to the Federal Budget and wondering what will happen to the health budget and especially the e-Health budget. I will let people know in due course. Otherwise there is a lot of publicity on all sorts topics with Government Grants to Telehealth and so on as well as the announcement on...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - May 13, 2013 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Dr David More MB PhD FACHI Source Type: blogs

What tests are MORE important than cholesterol?
In the conventional practice of early heart disease prevention, cholesterol testing takes center stage. Rarely does it go any further, aside from questions about family history and obvious sources of modifiable risk such as smoking and sedentary lifestyle. So standard practice is to usually look at your LDL cholesterol, the value that is calculated, not measured, then–almost without fail–prescribe a statin drug. While there are indeed useful values in the standard cholesterol panel–HDL cholesterol and triglycerides–they are typically ignored or prompt no specific action. But a genuine effort at he...
Source: Track Your Plaque Blog - May 12, 2013 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Lipoprotein testing Omega-3 fatty acids Omega-3 index Thyroid health vitamin D Source Type: blogs

The Rise Of mHealth And EHR Use, And The World Of Telehealth – Around Healthcare Scene
mHealth is on the rise, and it looks like usage of smart phones among physicians is following that same trend. A recent study shows that usage rose about nine percent in 2012, which shows that it is becoming more accepted in the medical world. It will be interesting to see if it increases even more this year (I have a feeling it might.) Similar to the increase in doctors using smartphones, there has been a jump in EMR and HIE use as well. A survey from Accenture found that over 90 percent of doctors are using an EMR in either their practice or at a hospital, and over 50 percent are using an HIE. This increase was highest ...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - May 12, 2013 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Katie Tags: EHR EHR Benefits Electronic Health Record Electronic Medical Record EMR EMR Selection EMR Technology Healthcare Healthcare Communication Healthcare Devices HealthCare IT Hospitals Medical Privacy Patients Personal Musings mHe Source Type: blogs

It Seems The NEHRS / PCEHR Has Had a Bit Of A Make Over. Interesting Changes In A Couple Of Areas.
After the outage overnight I wandered along to see what changes had been made to the what the user sees. Here is what the navigation menu down the side now looks like. Health Record Overview Clinical Documents Shared Health Summary Medication Records Prescription and Dispense View Personal Personal Health Notes Personal Health Summary Advance Care Directive Custodian Your Personal Details Emergency Contact Details Child D...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - May 12, 2013 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Dr David More MB PhD FACHI Source Type: blogs

An Interesting Email Turned Up From SAI Global (The Standards Australia For Profit Arm) A Few Days Ago.
This popped into my inbox a few days ago. eHealth Standards: Recommended Practice for The Health Industry. Hello David, The Australian government is committed to e-Health and is facilitating the transition of paper-based clinical record keeping to electronic means for better information exchange. www.health.gov.au/internet/main/publishing.nsf/Content/eHealth Patient information sharing, that occurs mostly on paper, is moving online to increase efficiency and reduce costs, without compromising on the quality of the services delivered. To this end, the Australian government announced a $67.4 million budget to be spent...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - May 12, 2013 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Dr David More MB PhD FACHI Source Type: blogs

EHR Backlash, ACO, and Center of Care – #HITsm Chat Highlights
Topic One: What’s your take on the emerging #EHRBacklash? A post-Meaningful Use fad, or a movement with actual potential? T1: Until we separate #data from #ehr & see EHR as viewer & not a container, #ehrbacklash will continue & #interop will be difficult #HITsm — CLOUDHealth™ (@CLOUDHealth) May 10, 2013 T1: All end users (including DRs) lost a lot of say in the design of EMR software when the US GOV started making the rules #hitsm — HealthCo(@healthcois) May 10, 2013 T1: #EHRBacklash may be described as simmering for years…as it was imposed on physician/patient interaction. #hitsm — Bob Green (...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - May 11, 2013 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Katie Tags: ACO EHR EMR Healthcare HealthCare IT #HITSM Patients Source Type: blogs

Weekly Overseas Health IT Links - 12th May, 2013.
Here are a few I have come across last week. Note: Each link is followed by a title and few paragraphs. For the full article click on the link above title of the article. Note also that full access to some links may require site registration or subscription payment. ----- http://www.fiercehealthcare.com/story/reality-check-coordinated-care-daunting-task/2013-05-03 Reality check: Coordinated care is a daunting task May 3, 2013 | By Alicia Caramenico This week, FierceHealthcare reported on healthcare's "dirty little secret" about coordinated care: it's not very well coordinated and no one is responsible for it. The "...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - May 11, 2013 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Dr David More MB PhD FACHI Source Type: blogs

Clouded "Visionary" Leadership - Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center's EPIC "Business Cycle Disruptions"
A typical excuse for the multi-million dollar compensation now enjoyed by many leaders of health care organizations is these leaders' supposed brilliance.For example, in 2011 we noted that the total compensation of Dr John McConnell, the CEO of Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, a non-profit teaching hospital, rose from over $700,000 in 2008-2009 to over $1.6 million in 2009-2010. Other top executives in the system made nearly one million a piece. An official statement from the hospital system claimed that this level of compensation was needed to "retain skilled executives and visionary leaders for the m...
Source: Health Care Renewal - May 10, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Tags: executive compensation healthcare IT difficulties manager-kings EPIC managers' coup d'etat Wake Forest University healthcare IT cost Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center public relations Source Type: blogs

Health Wonk Review: money talks, but IT helps
The latest edition of Health Wonk Review is hot off the digital presses, with Joe Paduda taking hosting duties on his Managed Care Matters blog. And managed care does matter in this trip around the health blogosphere, with most of the attention on healthcare costs and insurance coverage. On the quality front, which is my primary interest these days, there is some interesting discussion about whether the new Medicare hospital readmissions policy truly will produce better care or will prod some into providing the minimum level of service to readmitted patients. (Frankly, hospitals have been overtreating for years. If a min...
Source: Neil Versel's Healthcare IT Blog - May 10, 2013 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Neil Versel Tags: blogging consumerism EMR/EHR Finance health IT health reform Health Wonk Review Healthcare IT patient safety quality reimbursement Telehealth consumer health information healthcare costs home monitoring hospital readmissions Source Type: blogs

Healthcare IT From the Mouth of Babes
A little Fun Friday post to get you started for the weekend. This past week was Take Your Child to Work Day. This is always an interesting thing for me since I work from home. However, I usually try and head out to one of the local Las Vegas tech startup hangouts so my kids can see some other people I work with. This time I decided to put my son to work a little bit. I had him on the iPad following some people on Twitter. It was fun to see him working. As we started to work my son asked me, “What DO you do for work dad?” I knew that sooner or later this question would be coming since I mostly work from home. I ...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - May 10, 2013 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: John Lynn Tags: EHR Electronic Health Record Electronic Medical Record EMR HealthCare IT EMR Blogger EMR Blogging Source Type: blogs

The HIT Tipping Point: Intended and Unintended Financial Consequences
A question: What is the opposite of health IT return on investment? The answer: Unintended financial consequences, or UFCs, for short. The scenario: A sophisticated medical center health system begins to roll out an expensive proprietary EHR and shortly thereafter sustains an operating loss, leaving no choice but to put the implementation on hold. The operating loss is attributed to “unintended financial consequences” directly related to buying a very expensive EHR system. read more (Source: Healthcare IT News Blog)
Source: Healthcare IT News Blog - May 10, 2013 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Edmund Billings, MD Tags: Andrews Hospital Barry Blumenfeld Boothbay (Maine) Register Industry News LINCOLN Maine Medical Center MaineHealth Medicare Portland Richard Peterson Stuart Smith Electronic Health Records Financial/Revenue Cycle Management Source Type: blogs

Stop Saving the NHS: new book
Well I have done it. My book Stop Saving the NHS and Start Reinventing it has been published in Kindle and paperback. It's aimed at NHS leaders and managers, but will probably interest anyone who is interested in the shape of 21st century healthcare. (Source: Future Health IT)
Source: Future Health IT - May 10, 2013 Category: Technology Consultants Tags: Transforming Healthcare with IT Source Type: blogs

This Seems To Me To Be Some Very Interesting Commentary. Views Welcome.
This appeared a few days ago. Will Electronic Records Cure Health Care? By Joe Weber APR 29, 2013 12:48pm ET Until we are totally confident we know how to design and deploy EHRs in a manner that will substantially improve health care, why would we want to proliferate these expensive systems? The thinking is that EHR interoperability will solve health care's crisis. But ask yourself: Whenever you've received inadequate care, what was the root cause? Was it (1) because your doctor couldn't access a medical record that was in some other doctor's office? Was it (2) because your doctor did not have access to th...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - May 10, 2013 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Dr David More MB PhD FACHI Source Type: blogs

The NHS mandate and its implications for mental health
This briefing examines what the NHS Mandate means for mental health services and the people who use them. It identifies areas for improvements in mental health services and argues that a stronger focus on mental health support can improve people's physical health. It also outlines key actions for NHS England and CCGs, including expanding IAPT services, addressing access and waiting times for mental health care and commissioning integrated support for people with co-existing physical and mental health conditions. Briefing Centre for Mental Health - news (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - May 10, 2013 Category: UK Health Authors: The King's Fund Information & Library Service Tags: Mental Health Source Type: blogs

EHR Benefit – Eligibility for Pay-for-Performance
It’s time for the next installment in my series of posts looking at the long list of EHR benefits. Eligibility for Pay-for-Performance I think that this is a really scary topic for most doctors. It’s not that a doctor is afraid of being reimbursed for the way they perform. The problem with pay for performance (ACO if you prefer) is that we have no idea what that’s really going to look like. The unknown is scary and a real problem. A change as dramatic from fee for service to pay for performance is an enormous shift and we still have very little idea how that shift is going to happen. However, as one perso...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - May 9, 2013 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: John Lynn Tags: EHR EHR Benefits Electronic Health Record Electronic Medical Record EMR HealthCare IT ACO ACOs EMR and EHR Benefits Series EMR Benefits Fee for Service Pay For Performance Source Type: blogs

In the fight against superbugs, biosensors may have an answer - FierceHealthIT
New biosensors have the potential to detect antiobiotic resistance in bacteria, according to new research from the Journal of Visualized Experiments (JoVE). "Antibiotic resistant bacteria is a serious problem," Vitaly Vodyanoy, M.D. said in an announcement. "It is very important [when treating a patient] to distinguish between normal and resistant bacteria; if you have a case of resistance you have to take special measures to cure it." Vodyanoy used bacteriophages, simple viruses that can target and kill bacteria, mixed with specific antibiodies, which can be used to produce a color change in a sample that indicat...
Source: FutureHIT - Speculations on the Future of Health IT - May 9, 2013 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Hunscher Source Type: blogs

Rogue Wave: The Synergistic Convergence of Multiple Disruptive Information Technologies
Reading a page on the McKinsey site called Clouds, big data, and smart assets: Ten tech-enabled business trends to watch, I came across something that resonated with an obsession of mine over the past three decades of my involvement in high tech: the synergistic convergence of multiple disruptive information technologies. I firmly believe that this is the driving force behind the massive and increasingly rapid changes in modern society and culture. Starting around the turn of the century, I wrote a series of scenario planning papers called Rogue Wave in which I first published my thoughts on this concept. I felt the metap...
Source: FutureHIT - Speculations on the Future of Health IT - May 9, 2013 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Hunscher Source Type: blogs

Here Is A Fascinating Interview From The CIO of Kaiser Permanente. Interesting Perspectives.
This appeared a few days ago. Q&A: Kaiser Permanente's CIO on Technology's Role in Redefining Healthcare Scott Mace, for HealthLeaders Media , April 23, 2013 Healthcare is transforming, says Philip Fasano, CIO and executive vice president of Kaiser Permanente, the nation's largest not-for-profit health plan and healthcare provider, with annual operating revenue in excess of $42 billion. He oversees 6,000 employees, who work to support the organization's 14,600 physicians. KP serves more than 8.8 million members. I recently sat down for an extended conversation with him Fasano as he was making the rounds promoting ...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - May 9, 2013 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Dr David More MB PhD FACHI Source Type: blogs

Hospitals Slow to Go Paperless Despite Benefits
Guest Post: Hospitals Slow to Go Paperless Despite Benefits If you are walking into an ER, you better have a reliable memory of your last doctor's visit, the medications you have taken, and any x-rays you've had in the last year. Unless you are walking into one of the very few hospitals in the United States that has gone paperless, your wait could be very long. This is because hospitals are still using an outdated method of managing information: paper. Healthcare is far behind other industries when it comes to information technology and document management. Hospitals and patients could greatly benefit from the co...
Source: Medicine and Technology by Dr. Joseph Kim - May 8, 2013 Category: Technology Consultants Tags: guest post electronic health record hospital EHR health it Source Type: blogs

How Do You Improve the Quality of EHR Data for Healthcare Analytics?
A month or so ago I wrote a post comparing healthcare big data with skinny data. I was introduced to the concept of skinny data by Encore Health Resources at HIMSS. I absolutely love the idea of skinny data that provides meaningful results. I wish we could see more of it in healthcare. However, I was also intrigued by something else that James Kouba, HIT Strategist at Encore Health Resources, told me during our discussion at HIMSS. James has a long background in doing big data in healthcare. He told me about a number of projects he’d worked on including full enterprise data warehouses for hospitals. Then, he describe...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - May 8, 2013 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: John Lynn Tags: EHR Electronic Health Record Electronic Medical Record EMR Healthcare Business Intelligence HealthCare IT EHR Consulting Encore Health Resources Healthcare Big Data HIMSS HIMSS 2013 James Kouba Skinny Data Source Type: blogs

Innovation, Technology and Health
We all know that the world of technology is changing at a rapid pace, but what happens when you bring new, innovative minds into the field? Mashable looks at three of the inventions that came out of the New York University's yearly Entrepreneurs' Challenge. Two of the three featured in the article showcase digital health technologies in the works. Co-developer Doug Kanter developed a diabetes management system. By imputing one's diet and exercise into a mobile app that then connects with the blood sugar levels, those with diabetes can better manage their health. Oculogica is an innovation that shows small moving o...
Source: ePharma Summit - May 8, 2013 Category: Medical Marketing and PR Tags: ePharma Summit Telemedicine Heatlhcare Innovation Technology and healthcare Source Type: blogs

The May Massachusetts HIT Council Meeting
Just as the national HIT Standards Committee meets every month and I record its deliberations on my blog, the Massachusetts HIT Council, a governance body for healthcare IT activities in the Commonwealth, meets monthly. The Council is a multi-stakeholder body including public and private sector participants from every aspects of the healthcare system.We met on Monday to review progress on State HIE implementation. Here are the presentation materials.In May, Tufts Medical Center will go live with transfer of care summaries sent to payers in support of disease management programs.BIDMC will go live with immuniz...
Source: Life as a Healthcare CIO - May 8, 2013 Category: Technology Consultants Source Type: blogs

So many types of telehealth
Here’s a short video (720p HD) I put together from the just-concluded American Telemedicine Association’s annual conference in Austin, Texas. No wonder it’s so hard to get a real sense of the size of the telehealth and telemedicine market when there are so many components and so many different definitions. This is a row of banners outside the meeting rooms highlighting the various types, not to mention some of the ATA’s constituencies and important topics at the conference. I did the voice-over at 1:30 in the morning. Related posts: Breaking down ignorance about telehealth Skype for ‘redneck...
Source: Neil Versel's Healthcare IT Blog - May 8, 2013 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Neil Versel Tags: health IT Healthcare IT Innovation international mobile remote monitoring Telehealth video aging in place American Telemedicine Association home monitoring videoconferencing wireless Source Type: blogs

It Looks Like People Are Starting To Get Realistic With Clinical Decision Support - A Good Thing.
This appeared a little while ago. Benchmarks: Changes are afoot for clinical and business intelligence By Mike Miliard, Managing Editor Created 04/22/2013 A study earlier this year from the University of Missouri showed that most patients took a dim view of doctors who make use of clinical decision support technology. Researchers found that patients saw physicians who use CDS as somehow less capable than those who don't. They saw the IT tools as impersonal, and thought the systems were a barrier between them and their caregivers. That's the wrong way to think about it, says John Hoyt, executive vice president, HIMSS ...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - May 8, 2013 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Dr David More MB PhD FACHI Source Type: blogs

AusHealthIT Poll Number 166 – Results – 8th May, 2013.
The question was: Do Centralised National E-Health Programs (Like the NEHRS / PCEHR) Make Sense Any More? They Still Do 30% (16) Probably 11% (6) Probably Not 2% (1) No - Very Flawed Approach 50% (27) I Have No Idea 7% (4) Total votes: 54 Looks like a small majority think they are not a great idea - with the experience of history. Again, many thanks to those that voted! David. This is the initial part of the post - read more by clicking on the title of the article. David. (Source: Australian Health Information Technology)
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - May 8, 2013 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Dr David More MB PhD FACHI Source Type: blogs

URMC Faces Third HIPAA Breach
The University of Rochester Medical Center has seen a third HIPAA breach, this one caused by the loss of an unencrypted USB drive by a physician, reports Healthcare IT News. The drive, which belonged to a resident, contained protected health information on 537 patients. Officials with URMC say they have notified the 537 former orthopedic patients whose information was lost on the drive. Lost information included patients’ names, genders, ages, dates of birth, telephone numbers, medical record numbers, and more, though it didn’t include addresses, Social Security numbers or insurance information. According ...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - May 7, 2013 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Katherine Rourke Tags: Electronic Medical Record EMR HealthCare IT HIPAA Breaches HIPAA News Healthcare IT News HIPAA Violation University of Rochester Medical Center URMC Source Type: blogs

5 critical elements of patient-centric care
I would like now to delve into what I consider critical elements of patient-centric care. They all involve technology to various extents. 1. There must be buy-in from providers. I am including payers, healthcare systems as well as clinical providers in this category. While I realize that much of healthcare is devoted to satisfying legal and regulatory mandates, there is great opportunity to improve the care experience (and dare I say outcome) of patients by changing the focus from provider to patient. Physicians do care about their patients. However, they are finding less and less time to devote to direct patient car...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - May 7, 2013 Category: Family Physicians Tags: Tech Health IT Primary care Source Type: blogs

Electronic Health Information Exchange Governance Framework Released
Last year, ONC issued a Request for Information (RFI) to gather public input on a potential regulatory approach that would have spelled out “conditions for trusted exchange” (safeguards, technical, and business practice) through rulemaking, and establish a voluntary accreditation and certification process for validating organizations as being legitimate participants in the (Source: Healthcare IT News Blog)
Source: Healthcare IT News Blog - May 7, 2013 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Farzad Mostashari, MD Tags: Industry News Electronic Health Records Health Information Exchange (HIE) Policy and Legislation Source Type: blogs

Health Information Technology: Office of the National Coordinator to Charge User Fees to HIT Vendors
We previously wrote about President Obama’s FY 2014 budget for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). Given the large size of the budget and the vast array of agencies it covers, we are devoting a separate story on the budget for the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC), which received a big financial boost, jumping 28 percent to $78 million, reported FierceHealthIT. “With HITECH funding ending in FY 2013, the proposed funding is needed to ensure that progress towards secure, interoperable health IT systems is continued,” National Coordinator for Health IT Farzad Mostashari sai...
Source: Policy and Medicine - May 7, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Thomas Sullivan Source Type: blogs

Senators Call for Review of HITECH
Six Republican Senators have formally requested that U.S. Department of Health & Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius provide a written plan to address how the agency is implementing the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act. In an April 16 letter—signed by Senators Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.), Richard Burr (R-N.C.), Tom Coburn (R-Okla.), Mike Enzi (R-Wyo.), Pat Roberts (R-Kan.) and John Thune (R-S.D.)—they state that Congress has an obligation to conduct oversight of government programs. To that end, they released a 28-page white paper entitled “REBOOT: Re-Examining ...
Source: Policy and Medicine - May 7, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Thomas Sullivan Source Type: blogs

The big-data revolution in US health care: Accelerating value and innovation | McKinsey & Company
This report leans in the direction of favoring technology over the personal interactions between patient and physician. I'm still feeling divided. This link goes to an executive summary, but it has a link where you can download the full report. (Source: FutureHIT - Speculations on the Future of Health IT)
Source: FutureHIT - Speculations on the Future of Health IT - May 7, 2013 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Hunscher Source Type: blogs

A "Learning Healthcare System": A good use of Big Data
An item in FierceHealthIT pointed me to an intriguing paper from the Institute of Medicine, Making the Case for Continuous Learning from Routinely Collected Data: The availability and reliability of large volumes of relevant longitudinal digital data from a variety of clinical and nonclinical sources are core features of a system that learns from each care experience, a learning health system. Common clinical repositories include data from electronic health record (EHR) systems used to manage patient care and claims data necessary for billing purposes. In some cases, data sources can be linked, using eith...
Source: FutureHIT - Speculations on the Future of Health IT - May 7, 2013 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Hunscher Source Type: blogs

Slightly Conflicting Reports On Frost & Sullivans Review Of APAC E-Health. Not Sure I See What They Do.
A number of reports on a new Frost and Sullivan report appeared this week. We have first. Australia leads Asia-Pacific in eHealth Posted Tue, 30/04/2013 - 13:31 by Fran Molloy Australia’s PCEHR scheme has driven growth in our healthcare IT market, and is the fastest-growing in the Asia-Pacific region, according to research released this week by market analysts Frost & Sullivan. The report found that Australia’s National eHealth Strategy has been a key driver for market growth. Australia’s health IT market, worth an estimated $783 million in 2012, will continue to grow at 10.3 percent a year over the next f...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - May 7, 2013 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Dr David More MB PhD FACHI Source Type: blogs

National Nurses Day Tribute
Today is National Nurses Day and this week is a celebration of all the amazing nurses in healthcare. I think nurses are the unsung heroes of healthcare. They do an extraordinary job and get very little recognition. When I think about EMR in general it impacts nurses as much or more than anyone in the clinic. Yet in most cases, nurses have very little involvement in the EMR purchase process. Sure, most places do some sort of meeting with the nurses and they take a little feedback from them, but from my experience they have little involvement in which EMR is chosen. This means that most nurses just have to deal with whatever...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - May 6, 2013 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: John Lynn Tags: EHR Electronic Health Record Electronic Medical Record EMR Healthcare HealthCare IT EMR Implementation EMR Trainer National Nurses Day Nursing RWJF Source Type: blogs

Guest Article: How to improve health IT products sales into physician practices and hospitals through better funnel management
A frequent question I am asked by startups and their software focused leadership teams is, “how do we generate sales and what is the appropriate process to follow in creating our sales expectations.” My friend Steve Carbonara has been selling software to healthcare enterprises for years so I asked him to write a companion to his piece on selling to hospitals. Steve is currently the Chief Sales Officer at Cohealo, Inc., a VC backed healthcare services firm that optimizes purchasing and consumption of medical devices and equipment. After 8 years in corporate sales with Misys Healthcare and Allscripts, Steve has worked ...
Source: The Healthcare IT Guy - May 6, 2013 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Shahid N. Shah Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs

Which Cloud Model is Right for Your Healthcare Organization?
Every organization is considering “cloud” approaches for their business, yet if you ask “what is cloud” you’ll get a wide range of answers. This variety of cloud options has an impact on healthcare organizations, especially those contemplating a future cloud strategy aligned to regulatory compliance. read more (Source: Healthcare IT News Blog)
Source: Healthcare IT News Blog - May 6, 2013 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Maureen Kaplan Tags: Cloud Computing Industry News Privacy and Security Source Type: blogs

Using simulation training in healthcare
Training healthcare providers to be able to respond to any situation they might find themselves in is crucial to their development as healthcare professionals. With recent advancement in the use of technology, simulation training provides an excellent (and safe) learning environment in the curriculum of students as well as for ongoing training for current healthcare professionals. read more (Source: Healthcare IT News Blog)
Source: Healthcare IT News Blog - May 6, 2013 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Stephen Burrows Tags: Industry News simulation Quality and Safety Workforce Management Source Type: blogs

Carestream Dental Launches CS OrthoTrac Cloud
New Online Platform Enables Orthodontists to Manage their Practices from Any Place with Internet Connectivity PHILADELPHIA – Carestream Dental today launched CS OrthoTrac Cloud at the American Association of Orthodontists (AAO) Annual Session, being held through Tuesday, May 7, at the Philadelphia Convention Center in Philadelphia.Previewed at last year’s AAO Annual Session, the cloud solution for OrthoTrac is now available for purchase. CS OrthoTrac Cloud combines the dependable features and functionality of OrthoTrac practice management software with the convenience of a centralized, Web-based platform, giving ...
Source: Dental Technology Blog - May 6, 2013 Category: Dentists Source Type: blogs

Weekly Australian Health IT Links – 6th May, 2013.
Here are a few I have come across the last week or so. Note: Each link is followed by a title and a few paragraphs. For the full article click on the link above title of the article. Note also that full access to some links may require site registration or subscription payment. General Comment It is less than a fortnight now until the budget where we will find out what funding will be provided for e-Health in the years going forward. It will be very interesting indeed as this will give us a clear idea of Government commitment in the area. Other than that we again see some more efforts and warnings on security and priva...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - May 6, 2013 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Dr David More MB PhD FACHI Source Type: blogs

Physician Payment Sunshine Act: CMS-OMB Posts New Request for Comments
In an effort to further refine the Physician Payment Sunshine Act reporting requirements, CMS has issued a request for comments from stakeholders. (1) The necessity and utility of the proposed information collection for the proper performance of CMS’s function; (2) The accuracy of CMS’s burden estimate relating to collection and reporting the data; (3) Ways to enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the information to be collected; and (4) The use of automated collection techniques or other forms of information technology to minimize the information collection burden According to the req...
Source: Policy and Medicine - May 6, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Thomas Sullivan Source Type: blogs

Big Data & Healthcare Analytics Forum
Don't miss the Big Data & Healthcare Analytics Forum June 4-5, 2013 Washington DC Healthcare IT News and HIMSS Media, the industry’s leading sources for news and leadership in healthcare information technology, have joined forces to present the Big Data & Healthcare Analytics Forum. This two-day event in the nation’s capital will gather leading providers, industry experts, solutions suppliers and key government officials. As reimbursement shrinks and risk sharing grows, analyzing data to improve decision-making may well determine the winners and losers in this new healthcare landscape. That’s where the foru...
Source: Medicine and Technology by Dr. Joseph Kim - May 5, 2013 Category: Technology Consultants Tags: HIMSS big data health it conferences Source Type: blogs

AMA says EHRs create 'appalling Catch-22' for docs - And just how many experts does it take to screw in a light bulb, anyway?
(NOTE: this post, being about minor matters like death and financial mayhem, is particularly and unusually [even for me] biting and lacking in euphemisms and political correctness. If you are easily offended and want the latter, and/or believe we all need to be 'nice' about banal issues like patient injury and death, fraud, and other minor matters, click here: http://www.disney.com and skip the post below.) You were warned.--------------------------------------- At some point, so-called EHR "experts" and pundits need to stop being accommodated for their having ignored years of warnings, complaints, "anecd...
Source: Health Care Renewal - May 5, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Tags: Julie Creswell upcoding Reed Abelson AMA healthcare IT risks Fred Schulte fraud ecri institute Source Type: blogs

Breaking down ignorance about telehealth
AUSTIN, Texas — I’m at my very first American Telemedicine Association annual conference, which starts later this afternoon. This morning, I gave a short presentation to the ATA’s Industry Council, made up of technology vendors, about trends in the telehealth industry. My slides are here: ATA 2013 presentation. I want to draw your attention in particular to slide 9, which is a letter to the editor of the Kearney (Neb.) Hub newspaper. Honestly, it’s one of the most ignorant, poorly argued pieces of garbage I’ve seen in a long time, and I can’t believe the editor actually accepted it and publi...
Source: Neil Versel's Healthcare IT Blog - May 5, 2013 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Neil VerselNeil Versel Tags: health IT Healthcare IT Telehealth American Telemedicine Association ATA 2013 consumer health information mental health Nebraska Source Type: blogs

HIMSS13 debrief podcast with Gregg Masters, John Lynn, and Dr. Pat Salber
Following HiMSS13 in New Orleans I sat down last month in a BlogTalkRadio broadcast with Dr. Pat Salber (@DocWeighsIn @HealthTechHatch), Gregg Masters (@2healthguru @ACOwatch) and John Lynn (@techguy) with a ‘debrief’ of our key HIMSS13 take-aways as well as our latest venture, Influential Networks. I covered the following topics in the podcast: The HIMSS 13 cheerleading and “echo chamber” Are we moving faster with MU than the industry can really accomodate? How MU is creating false demand and a false market and when we might be able to move back to real innovation Supply of health IT professiona...
Source: The Healthcare IT Guy - May 5, 2013 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Shahid N. Shah Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs

Reducing Shadow IT in healthcare by embracing “good enough for HIPAA” business-friendly SaaS tools
I’ve said repeatedly that any cloud / SaaS vendor that wants to be taken seriously in healthcare must be willing to sign a HIPAA Business Associate Agreement (BAA) and I was happy to hear that Box.com is now willing to do so. I’m quite pleased that we’re finally seeing some serious healthcare SaaS offerings from horizontal (non-healthcare-specific) vendors. Only when we move beyond healthcare-specific offerings will we be able to unshackle ourselves from the decades old legacy health IT vendors and that’s great news. While Box.com is only one vendor I think they will be the first of many general ind...
Source: The Healthcare IT Guy - May 5, 2013 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Shahid N. Shah Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs

The Australian E-Health Standards Process Seems To Be Going Down The Gurgler. This Really Matters.
I ran a poll on the blog last week. AusHealthIT Poll Number 165 – Results – 30th April, 2013. The question was: Has The Process Of E-Health Standards Setting In Australia Gone Off The Rails? For Sure 67% (28) Probably 14% (6) Probably Not 2% (1) No - It Is Fine 12% (5) I Have No Idea 5% (2) Total votes: 42 Looks like a very clear majority think we have a train-wreck here. ----- Looks like this was almost a prescient poll. Over the weekend news has emerged from a range of sources a what is described by insiders as a total corruption of the governance of Standards Australia’s (SA) process...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - May 5, 2013 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Dr David More MB PhD FACHI Source Type: blogs

The HIMSS Virtual Career Fair
Connecting Health IT Job Seekers and Employers Produced by HIMSS Media May 8, 2013 | 11am-7:30pm CT A career in health IT encompasses many administrative, clinical and financial aspects, and skill sets acquired from previous careers and industries are often applicable and transferable to health IT careers. Build or enhance your skills portfolio by connecting with the health IT tools, resources and positions available today with our virtual job fair! http://www.himssvirtual.org/2013_CareerFair/ (Source: Non-Clinical Physician Jobs, Careers, and Opportunities)
Source: Non-Clinical Physician Jobs, Careers, and Opportunities - May 5, 2013 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Joseph Kim, MD, MPH Source Type: blogs

What’s Next for Healthcare Information Technology Innovation
Last week the Greater Chicago Chapter of HIMSS invited me to participate in their healthcare technology webinar series. I covered the topic “What’s Next for Healthcare Information Technology Innovation?” and the screencast with audio has been posted here. I covered numerous topics that are helpful for entrepreneurs and engineers that want to create innovative healthcare technology. (Source: The Healthcare IT Guy)
Source: The Healthcare IT Guy - May 4, 2013 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Shahid N. Shah Tags: Engineering Startups Source Type: blogs

Financial woes at Maine Medical Center: Reading this blog might have saved them millions of dollars, and prevented massive "cost saving initiatives"
In this article, the euphemistic and almost endearing term "hiccup" is used instead of the more traditional "glitch" to describe obvious major information technology malfunctions. It is likely the knowledge at this blog and at my health IT dysfunction teaching site could have helped prevent most of these problems:Financial woes at Maine Medical CenterNew England health system facing $13 million loss, initiates plan to save $15 millionNEW GLOUCESTER, ME | May 2, 2013 In a memo to its employees last week, one of Maine’s largest health systems said it has suffered an operating loss of $13.4 million in the first half o...
Source: Health Care Renewal - May 4, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Tags: Maine Medical Center glitch Healthcare IT failure Edgecomb Selectman Stuart Smith EPIC healthcare IT cost hiccup Source Type: blogs