EMR Implementation & HITECH Act Blog
A blog for doctors and medical office staff seeking assistance with EMR and the HITECH Act.
Category Archives: Medical Office Technology
2010
Using Social Media in a Medical Office? Be Careful!
Are you a health care professional working in a medical office? Do you tweet? Friend? Text? Chat? A recent post in a media-oriented blog got us thinking. If your work life involves accessing or being around sensitive medical information normally associated with a medical office, you may want to reconsider how you use social media in relation to your practice.
With social media, it’s possible you may be inadvertently exposing yourself to the all-too-real risk of violating someone’s privacy. You could easily run afoul of HIPAA regulations and rack up potentially huge fines. Here are a few questions to ask of yourself and your colleagues:
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Filed under: HIPAA, Medical Office Technology
Tagged: HIPAA and Social Media, Patient Privacy
2009
The HITECH Act – what it means to a health care professional
The Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act, otherwise known as the HITECH Act, is on the minds of many health care professionals. This legislation will affect technical, procedural and managerial aspects of your daily practice. Specifically, the HITECH Act will address the issue of computer upgrades as well as electronic storage of patients’ medical records. Continue reading below video >>
2009
EMR Software in the Exam Room, but on What Hardware?
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As medical offices adopt EMR systems, the question will likely arise: Should we use laptop or desktop computers in the exam rooms to run EMR software? Point-of-care access to patient records is key so a laptop may seem like a convenient solution. But laptops can have their own issues, which can be detrimental to medical offices.
2009
Medical Offices and Recordkeeping: Updating the HITECH Way
Some medical offices still have file rooms that resemble libraries: row after row of file cabinets with brightly colored letters and numbers on file folder edges. Sometimes they look more like primary-colored artwork than a functional business system! Evolution is slow but inevitable. Remember when typewriters were the norm in most business offices and virtually all records were kept in manila files? Not a lot has radically changed — until recently. The Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act is now fast-forwarding implementation of electronic medical record (EMR) technology in US medical offices and facilities. Continue reading after video. Continue reading »
Filed under: EMR, HITECH Act, Medical Office Technology
Tagged: EHR, Electronic Health Records, Electronic Medical Records, EMR, HITECH Act, HITECH and HIPAA, Medical Errors
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