Welcome to EMR and HIPAA

It looks more and more like I was right about my post of having a Google Health Portal on January 23. I even mentioned a Google Health Portal a second time on March 28th since I was seeing so many searches being directed to my site for people searching google health. I still think it’s a great idea, but I’m interested to see how dynamic the site really is. How trustworthy can the site be? People link to Paris Hilton a lot and that doesn’t mean that it is worth reading (although she may be worth looking at).

The rumor of Google Health looks pretty promising. I have a feeling the initial offering won’t be much more than what google finance is now. If it is then that’s good for me. I already get a number of people visiting my site from Google Finance so I imagine Google Health could be even more beneficial.

One day at the beginning of the “EMR Experience”, I saw the nurses quite upset and overwhelmed with all the changes and the learning curve of implementing an EMR. You could literally feel the negativity in the air. My wife had supplied my office with a Costco box of candy bars. Seeing the candy bars gave me an idea. I walked through the clinic with the box of candy bars offering them to everyone. It was amazing how a little candy bar could literally change the mood of the entire clinic. Maybe every EMR system should provide a box of candy bars as part of every EMR purchase.