November 2009

Guest Article: Tips to help prepare for EMRs, even before you choose your software

Given my recent postings on how to ease into technology before jumping head-first into EMRs, many readers wrote back asking additional questions about how else they should get ready for EMRs. To make sure readers get the best software selection advice, I reached out to Sheldon Needle, who is president and founder of CTSGuides.com, publishers [...]

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Study of 3,000 hospitals shows little benefit from EMRs – similar to CRMs and SFA?

This week The New York Times reported in Little Benefit Seen, So Far, in Electronic Patient Records that: The nation is set to begin an ambitious program, backed by $19 billion in government incentives, to accelerate the adoption of computerized patient records in doctors’ offices and hospitals, replacing ink and paper. There is wide agreement [...]

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Don’t drink the Kool-Aid: Tips for easing into medical technology if you’re afraid of EMRs

SoftwareAdvice.com recently posed the following questions to its readers in a survey format: “Are more doctors buying electronic medical records than before? Or, has the Stimulus bill only brought out the tire kickers?“. The results of the survey are available here; while the survey wasn’t scientific and it didn’t have enough participants to draw wide [...]

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Guest Article: Open Source EMRs for free clinics

Kevin Clifford and I were chatting about his experiences in taking a Michigan-area free clinic live on an open source EMR and I was very interested to share it with others. Kevin said he volunteered at the free clinic because he wanted to serve his community and said that there are many other such free [...]

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Breaking into the Healthcare IT job market

One of the most popular questions that I am routinely asked about is how to get a job in the (now hot again) healthcare IT market. I was doing a little poking around on JuJu.com, a job search engine, and the nice folks there gave me some interesting statistics based on their usage patterns: IT [...]

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And then there were 2: Drummond Group Plans to Certify Electronic Health Records

I saw this on PRweb today: Drummond Group Inc. announced today that it will submit to become a certifying body upon the release of the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) requirements for certifying bodies for Electronic Health Records (EHR). Drummond Group has been approached recently by numerous EHR software and [...]

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