MedWorm provides a medical RSS filtering service. Over 6000 RSS medical sources are combined and output via different filters. This feed contains the latest medical blog items that have been tagged with 'centricity'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:58:28 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5181960&cid=t_103301_113_f&fid=34634&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FEmrAndHipaa%2F%7E3%2FGFmRr9VJvx8%2F Chuck Podesta is Fletcher Allen Health Care’s chief information officer. ICD-10 would not be so daunting if the deadline was not occurring during the rush to get EHRs for meaningful use. Add in value-based purchasing, bundled payments and transitioning to ACOs, and you can see why many CIOs are retiring early or migrating to the vendor or consulting world. We are just over two years away from the October 2013 deadline, and there is much work to be done. ICD-10 contains 68,000 codes, as opposed to the 13,000 currently used in the ICD-9 world. There is a code for every condition that exists on the planet. The revenue cycle system, which includes registration, HIM and billing/AR, will be the lynch pin to ICD-10 readiness. Having a solid vendor partner and a strong product is key to a succ... EMR and HIPAA blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5181960 Tue, 30 Aug 2011 17:56:35 +0100 5181960 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4372105&cid=t_103301_113_f&fid=34634&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FEmrAndHipaa%2F%7E3%2FTQ5ADWHyE9c%2F JamesNT wrote a really interesting forum post recently about how a number of EMR vendors are holding doctor’s patient information “ransom” (his word) from them. Here’s his whole description and he even names a few EMR vendors and the challenges related to getting the EMR data out of their systems: To many EMR’s lock up the practice’s data and hold it for ransom. The data entered into an EMR belongs to the practice, not the EMR. It is not fair for EMR’s to not provide ways to interface or export data from the database. If a doctor wants to hire an IT person or developer such as myself to write custom reports or export data from the EMR, then it should be possible. Consider the following examples: Amazing Charts: They use SQL Server 2005 Express as t... EMR and HIPAA blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4372105 Wed, 19 Jan 2011 17:33:48 +0100 4372105 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2712104&cid=t_103301_87_f&fid=34765&url=http%3A%2F%2Fhcrenewal.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F08%2Flessons-unlearned-health-it-failure-act.html The following appeared on the HISTalk site on 8/14/2009 from a writer with the screen name UCSFWatch:From UCSFWatch: “Re: UCSF CIO’s e-mail. The GE Centricity Enterprise project is in full stop mode.” The attached and unverified e-mail from CIO Larry Lotenero says this: “The medical center’s Senior Management Group has engaged Kurt Salmon Associates (KSA) to assist us with a review of our IT clinical strategy. We are doing the review because we are dissatisfied with our progress to implement clinical applications to support the care of our patients. KSA will arrange interviews with many of you to capture your insights for the strategy planning. They will be on-site to begin their interviews on August 18. If KSA contacts you, I ask that you be as flexible as possible with your sch... Health Care Renewal blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2712104 Tue, 18 Aug 2009 15:16:00 +0100 2712104 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2553120&cid=t_103301_113_f&fid=34634&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.emrandhipaa.com%2Femr-and-hipaa%2F2009%2F06%2F20%2F100-million-in-interest-free-ehr-loans-from-ge%2F Today I came across this coverage of an announcement that GE Capital will be providing $100 million of loans to “accelerate adoption of electronic health records (EHR).” The loans from GE will carry no interest until the institutions obtaining these loans begin receiving government money, typically in 2012. Does anyone see a problem with this? GE Capital isn’t giving EHR loans to you because they are doing charity work. They are a business and they know that in 2012 a large number of these loans will start earning them a bunch of interest. This could easily happen because a doctor’s office was unable to implement the GE Centricity EHR software in the alloted time frame or maybe they couldn’t get GE Centricity EHR to show meaningful use (through GE Centricity&#... EMR and HIPAA blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2553120 Sat, 20 Jun 2009 15:38:03 +0100 2553120 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=479856&cid=t_103301_113_f&fid=34933&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpalmdoc.net%2F%3Fp%3D1218 Doug Beard writes: please help. looking for an efficient way to download daily schedule information, already loaded into the office centricity program, to a PDA (Clie), blackberry, or other handheld device. thanks Hi Doug. I don’t use GE’s Centricity Physician Office Software but a quick Google search shows that PatientKeeper offers a Mobile solution for Centricity. You can download and read their PDF article (228 Kb) on how to Extend GE Healthcare Centricity PO to popular PDAs and Smartphones Palm had a Webinar on this last year. Hope this is the solution you are looking for! (Source: The Palmdoc Chronicles) The Palmdoc Chronicles blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=479856 Thu, 01 Mar 2007 21:56:40 +0100 479856