EMR Implementation & HITECH Act Blog
A blog for doctors and medical office staff seeking assistance with EMR and the HITECH Act.
Tag Archives: HIT
2010
Research Shows That Electronic Medical Records Save Babies’ Lives
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We talk a lot in this blog about the financial aspects of Electronic Medical Records (EMRs), and with good reason – they can entail a substantial investment in time and money. But it’s sometimes easy to lose sight of the purpose of all that investment – to save lives.
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
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
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
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
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
2009
RHIOs: The Glue That Will Hold HIT Together
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Regional Health Information Organizations (RHIOs) will serve as an infrastructure for – and enable sharing of — electronic health information. A RHIO is designed to pull together all of the organizations, facilities and individuals in the race to computerize health data. Implementers such as hospitals, medical offices, laboratories, payers, insurers and patients all have a stake and must have their issues taken into account. That’s where RHIOs come in.
2009
Listen to HITECH Act Podcast from Massachusetts Health Data Consortium CEO
The Massachusetts Health Data Consortium has decades of experience bringing regional medical providers together to encourage innovation and collaboration. To get their perspective on the HITECH Act and electronic health records (a.k.a. electronic medical records), I spoke with the MHDC’s CEO, Ray Campbell. Listen to what Campbell has to say about this “messy … chaotic transition” that will form the foundation of any future health care system in this country.
Gretchen Siegchrist
PC Healthstop Blogging Team
Filed under: Electronic Health Records, HIT, HITECH Act
Tagged: EHR, HIPAA, HIT, HITECH Incentives, HITECH Privacy, HITECH timelines
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