EMR Implementation & HITECH Act Blog
A blog for doctors and medical office staff seeking assistance with EMR and the HITECH Act.
Category Archives: EMR
2010
EMRs Pose New Questions About The Privacy Of And Access To Medical Records
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You know those rows and rows of medical records sitting in your file cabinets? Who owns them? Do you, as the health care provider who created those records own them? How about the health insurance company that paid you for that work? Or the patients, whose private health information those records contain?
Filed under: EMR, Electronic Medical Records
Tagged: Electronic Medical Records, EMR
2010
MIPPA Provides Incentives for E-Prescribing
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American health care providers write close to 3 billion prescriptions per year, according to a number of estimates, with about 80% of them being written by hand. A recent study conducted by the Weill Cornell Medical School in New York found that about 4 of every 10 handwritten prescriptions had an error while the rate of errors found in electronic prescriptions is around one-seventh of that, or about 6%.
2010
Ten Keys To A Successful CPOE Implementation
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One of the keys to achieving meaningful use and thus being able to qualify for federal incentive payments for the implementation of EMRs is the use of Computerized Physician Order Entry. What exactly is CPOE and how can it be implemented successfully?
Filed under: CPOE, EMR, Electronic Medical Records, Implementation
Tagged: CPOE, Electronic Medical Records, EMR, EMR Implementation, HITECH Physician Incentives
2010
Another Country’s Experience: Health Information Technology (HIT) Can Work and Work Well
As the American health care system takes its first steps toward implementing a comprehensive national system of electronic medical records, can we learn anything from other countries? Is there anywhere else in the world that’s been there and done that?
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Filed under: EMR, Electronic Medical Records, Implementation
Tagged: Electronic Medical Records, EMR, EMR Implementation, HIT
2010
HIT Safety Concerns Spotlighted by FDA, HHS and Senator Grassley
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We’re less than a year into the implementation of the HITECH Act signed into law by an administration that wants every American to have an EMR by 2014, and questions are already being raised as to the safety of Health Information Technology. It looks more and more like error and adverse event reporting will be an integral part of implementation of EHRs. Both Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) plan to start tracking errors caused or created by EMRs, EHRs and other health information technologies.
Filed under: CPOE, EHR, EMR, HITECH Act
Tagged: CPOE, EHR, Electronic Health Records, Electronic Medical Records, EMR, HITECH, HITECH Implementation
2010
Massachusetts Receives $24 Million in HIT Funding
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Massachusetts, long a leader in the delivery of quality medical care to its citizens, has just received more than $24 million from the federal government to speed the adoption of electronic medical records (EMRs) throughout the Commonwealth.
Filed under: EMR, Electronic Medical Records, HIT
Tagged: EHR Privacy, Electronic Health Records, Electronic Medical Records, EMR, EMR Implementation, HIT, Meaningful Use
2010
Financing of EMRs Carries Both Risks and Rewards
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Physicians looking to adopt Electronic Health Records (EHRs) are facing an interesting dilemma. Incentive money won’t be available from the government for the the implementation of EHRs until 2011, but implementation will require spending substantial amounts of money now – as much as $25,000 to $50,000 per provider, by some estimates – to get the system up and running and qualify for those incentives.
Filed under: EHR, EMR, Electronic Health Records
Tagged: EHR, Electronic Health Records, Electronic Medical Records, EMR, EMR Software, HITECH Incentives
2010
Certification of EMRs Takes a Big Step Forward
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The two most important aspects of any electronic medical records system have been meaningful use and certification. Meaningful use, as we discussed in an earlier post, has finally been defined. Now the certification process is being clarified.
Filed under: EMR, Electronic Medical Records, Meaningful Use
Tagged: Electronic Medical Records, EMR, EMR Compliance, EMR Implementation, HIT
2010
Meaningful Use of EMR Has Finally Been Defined
One of the key factors in obtaining incentive funds from the government for the implementation of Electronic Medical Records is the definition of meaningful use. You must prove that you are using a certified system in a meaningful way to qualify for the $40,0000+ incentive payments available to eligible practitioners (EP).
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Filed under: EMR, Electronic Medical Records, Meaningful Use
Tagged: EMR, Meaningful Use, ONCHIT
2009
Want Proof That HIT and EMRs Can Work?
We know that many of you are asking if, at the end of the day, Health Information Technology (HIT) will really work. What benefits will you see after investing all this time and money in HIT? Well, we can say that not only can HIT work, but it can provide powerful, tangible benefits.
To see how well HIT can work, look no further than the Columbia Basin Health Association (CBHA), a group of four clinics in rural Washington State. CBHA serves roughly 25,000 patients per year — about half of whom are low income — in a 3600 square mile area. The entire CBHA system is paperless and has migrated 100 percent to electronic medical records (EMRs).
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Filed under: EMR, Electronic Medical Records, HIT
Tagged: Health Information Technology, HIT, HIT Benefits, HIT EMR Integration
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