April 25, 2011 | In: CCHIT, EHR, Electronic Health Records, EMR, Health Care, health IT, Physician
For those of you who do not know me personally, I am an internist and have been in private practice in central Florida for more than 30 years. Like so many of you, I have had to make changes -- expensive changes -- over the years to keep my office up...
April 6, 2011 | In: AMGA, ARRA, health IT, Health IT Policy, Hospital, Physician
The Managed Care Executive Group, a national organization of U.S. senior health plan executives, met last week in Arizona to discuss the top issues that health plans face in 2011. The 22nd Annual Forum, lead by industry thought leaders such as...
April 1, 2011 | In: AMGA, ARRA, EHR, EHR companies, EMR, Physician
House Republicans issued a report Wednesday and plan to hold a hearing Friday to investigate AARP's support for the health law as well as the organization's business interests. The Washington Post: In Campaign Against Health Care Law,...
March 28, 2011 | In: Physician
Apple’s iPad has been a pathbreaker of sorts in the technological field. They were many naysayers during its launch regarding its utility, but I suppose the tremendous success of the product have shut up their mouths. The craze and euphoria has...
March 25, 2011 | In: AMGA, CCHIT, E-Prescription, EHR companies, Health, Health IT Policy, HITECH Act, Physician
This week, a loose federation of left-leaning groups is convening nearly 200 gatherings to peddle the virtues of health-care reform. A women’s speak-out in Philadelphia. A small-business round-table discussion in Albuquerque. A fish fry for seniors...
March 15, 2011 | In: EHR, EHR companies, Physician
The National Library of Medicine has updated the RxNorm standard clinical drug vocabulary with more accurate and complete connections between national drug codes and standard non-proprietary names of medications recommended for use in electronic health...
March 1, 2011 | In: EHR, Electronic Health Records, Electronic Medical Records, EMR, Physician
Physicians who fail to tackle quality improvement, adopt electronic medical records and embrace teamwork risk being at a competitive disadvantage with doctors who join the modern era of health care, federal officials warned physicians at the AMA...
February 12, 2011 | In: EHR, Health, Health Care, Physician
Plans are underway to deploy an EHR system at Greenwich Hospital in Connecticut by 2012. The deployment is part of a bigger project at Yale New Haven Health System (YNHHS) that aims at linking its hospitals, community physicians, patients and...
February 12, 2011 | In: EHR, Electronic Health Records, EMR, Health, Health Care, Physician
Seventy-eight percent of Americans favor the use of electronic medical records, according to a recent study by NORC at the University of Chicago, an independent research organization. The study was published in the February edition of the journal...
Neil Chesanow Malpractice insurers are looking glum. Right now, competition is driving down medical malpractice insurance rates. Their business is cyclical. While it has been doing well for the past few years, with 2011 also expected to be profitable,...
January 12, 2011 | In: EHR, Electronic Medical Records, health IT, Hospital, Physician
The latest developments in the speech recognition software have made it quite easy for the dictation provider to directly convert the spoken words into electronic text. This provides great benefit to the healthcare workers, especially the physicians. In...
emPower - a leading provider of comprehensive Healthcare Compliance Solutions through Learning management system (LMS) has announced today that Dales Davidson LLC located in Thomasville, Georgia has adopted Dragon Legal Complete Online Training Course...
January 10, 2011 | In: E-Prescription, Health, Health Care, Physician
Current policy will unjustly base 2012 penalties on physicians’ e-prescribing use in 2011 The American Medical Association (AMA) and 103 state and specialty medical societies urged the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to revise the...
January 3, 2011 | In: E-Prescription, Physician
By Mary Mosquera The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT has named electronic prescribing network provider Surescripts as an organization that can test and approve certain electronic health records modules, bringing to a total of six the...
December 31, 2010 | In: EHR, EHR companies, Health, Health Care, Physician
Costs for adopting an electronic health records system in an ambulatory practice could hit $120,000 per physician, with 84 percent of that cost ($101,250) being lost revenue from fewer patient encounters during the transition, according to a recent...
