I’m sure that many of you probably don’t know the story and history of EMR and HIPAA. Some day I’ll have to share the entire story, but EMR and HIPAA has been around for about 6 years and about two years ago during a panel at HIMSS I announced that I was going to quit my job and become a full time blogger. I must admit that it is pretty much a dream for me that I’m able to be a full time blogger doing something that I love. A long time ago I chose advertising as my model for making this happen. Thankfully there have been a lot of great companies that have supported me and this blog. Many of them for many years.

As I do every couple months I like to recognize the new EMR and HIPAA advertisers and recognize those advertisers that have renewed their ads. Many of the ad renewals have been doing so for a lot of years. I might have to go back and research how long many of these advertisers have been renewing on EMR and HIPAA and recognize them for this in the future.

Also, we have a NEW service we’re offering, so read to the bottom to learn more.

New EMR and HIPAA Advertisers
Medical Mastermind – I’ve been talking with Medical Mastermind for a while now about advertising, so I’m glad that not only did they decide to advertise on EMR and HIPAA, but they’re advertising across the entire Healthcare Scene blog network. They are offering a special Buy 2 EMR licenses, Get 1 Free offer right now for readers of this blog. One thing I really like about Medical Mastermind is that over the past year or so they’ve come under new management that’s really taking them to the next level as a company. Plus, they have a bunch of clients that have been with them for a long time. It’s always great for a company to have a base of existing users that have been with them for a while.

PTS Consulting Group – PTS Consulting Group is a multi-national consulting group with offices in Boston, New York and London (to name a few). I know a number of the consultants out of Boston and they are some of the most pleasant and professional people you can meet. They have some great war stories and you might remember the meaningful use tool they created. If you’re looking for an EMR consultant, they offer a free phone consultation so you can see if they’re a good fit for your organization. Plus, one of their best resume items is that they’re regular readers of EMR and HIPAA (Sorry, I couldn’t help myself).

Valant Medical Solutions – Valant Medical Solutions offers an EHR focused solely on the mental health profession. No doubt they agree with me that there’s a huge opportunity available to specialty specific EHR software. I think few would argue that the mental health space has unique needs where they can benefit from a specialty specific EHR. Turns out investors seem to agree since Valant Medical recently closed an almost $1 million funding round. This is a good sign for mental health professionals looking for a mental health specific EHR that’s going to be around for a while to come.

Dynamic Vault – One of the things that I think clinics do incredibly poorly is making sure that they have a quality backup of their EHR system. I’ve done a whole series on EHR backups before and I should do it again. Dynamic Vault offers a service to help solve a lot of the EHR backup problems. They handle Access Controls, Audit Controls, Data Integrity and provide a contingency plan. I’d encourage every clinic to evaluate their EHR backup plan and make sure it is sound. Otherwise, you should check out a service like Dynamic Vault.

Renewing EMR and HIPAA Advertisers
Now a big thanks to the following advertisers that have renewed their ad on EMR and HIPAA: Cerner, Practice Fusion, SOAPware, EMR Consultant, and Sequelmed. There are a bunch more in the process of renewing too. Watch for another batch coming soon.

New Healthcare Scene Service
Over time Healthcare Scene has gotten a lot of requests from companies to create content for them. My normal response was that I really didn’t have time to create content for other places. As I’ve grown Healthcare Scene to now something like 10 writers (depending on how you count), I realized that we do have a bunch of talented people who could create content for other companies as well.

With this as inspiration, I got together with one of my writers, Anne Zieger to put together a new Healthcare Scene Content Service. In fact, we already have 3 clients we’re working with now on content creation with more in discussion. While we certainly are great at creating blog posts, Anne Zieger also has years of experience creating whitepapers, case studies, surveys, webinars and other custom content.

Besides our experience in the healthcare and healthcare IT space, our content creation service has the unique ability to also be able to distribute the content that’s created across the Healthcare Scene network. This makes for a really compelling opportunity for companies with a story to get their voice heard.

We’re putting the finishing touches on a PDF describing the various services we can offer and as webpage describing those services as well. Until then, if you’re interested in more details, drop me a line on our Contact Us page and we’ll get right back to you with more details.

A beautiful Thanksgiving is nearly over, but I’d be remiss if I didn’t at least drop a few sentences of gratitude for readers of EMR and HIPAA on Thanksgiving. I live a wonderful life. I have a fantastic wife that is a wonderful compliment to me. She’s had a lot more to put up with me traveling so much lately for HealthcareScene.com and she’s been a wonderful supporter of me. I have 3 wonderful kids that are incredibly fun and bring so much joy into my life.

Lately I’ve been talking with a lot of people and they invariably ask me what I do. My simple answer is: I’m a blogger. Many times I comment how I never thought I’d be a blogger when I grew up. In fact, if you’d asked me a year and a half ago when I quit my day job if I’d be a full time blogger I probably would have laughed. I’m certainly the beneficiary of a little bit of luck, some great timing, and a decent amount of hard work. Although, I’ve had so much fun doing most of it that it’s often hard for me to call it work.

All in all, I have so much to be grateful for. I’m particularly grateful for all those who read EMR and HIPAA and my other sites and the advertisers who support my site as well. No doubt, none of this would be possible with out great readers. Thanks for reading. Thanks for commenting. Thanks for participating. Thanks to all the advertisers that have supported this site. As I’ve discussed recently with a number of advertisers, my goal is to provide really great value so we have long term relationships with our advertisers. For the most part, we’ve been able to do just that. So, Thank You!

As most of you know, the way I’m able to run EMR and HIPAA and the rest of the Healthcare Scene blog network is thanks to the great EMR & Health IT advertisers that support the work we do. Luckily, we and our advertisers have done really well. In fact, I just noticed last night that a couple weeks ago EMR and HIPAA itself just passed 5 million pageviews (5,062,416 if you’re keeping count). Thankfully readership continues to increase across the whole network.

One challenge that some advertisers have with my current advertising is that it’s a flat rate for the month. In order to solve this problem, I’m launching a new advertising option that’s done on a CPC (cost per click) basis. This is the same model that Google Adwords uses, but you’ll be able to do it on a set of very targeted EMR, EHR and healthcare IT websites. I’m doing my initial tests for this on EMR Thoughts & EMR and EHR videos. If you’re interested in trying out this performance based advertising, drop me a line on our contact us page and I’ll send you more details.

If you like this type of performance based advertising and you have an important EMR or healthcare IT message to get out, wait until you see what I have brewing at Influential Networks.

Enough about the exciting changes to the EMR and HIPAA advertising. Now a look at the new Advertisers on EMR and HIPAA.
EHR Selector – As some of you might remember, I wasn’t a big fan of EHR Selector in the past, because I didn’t think many doctors would want to pay what they were charging to use their service. However, EHR selector came to me wanting to advertise their special 6 month free offering to use their EHR selection service and that was something I could get on board and support. EHR Selector has some of the most granular EHR company filtering that’s out there. They’ve added nice filters like the EHR Certification status of each EHR software. Sign up (It’s free after all) if you’re looking at selecting an EHR or helping others select an EHR.

Elsevier – This is a very large company with a wide variety of healthcare products. I’ll just focus on the one that they’re advertising on EMR and HIPAA: Gold Standard Drug Database. I believe most parts of an EMR should be built in house, but the one part of an EMR that is definitely better to get from a third party provider is the drug database. Gold Standard Drug Database is one option that EMR and EHR vendors should consider. It combines current, accurate content along with intelligent decision support for your drug database. The best part is that as an EHR company you don’t have to keep it up to date since Elsevier is already doing that for you and pushing you the updates.

Cerner – Many of you might remember my previous interviews with Cerner meaningful use physician #23 and Jan Patterson. Cerner has been a major player in the EHR industry for quite a while despite many people not really knowing much about them. A simple example of how large they are is that Cerner Ambulatory clients have secured more than $3.3 million in Meaningful Use incentives. Divide that by the $18,000 per provider and that’s a lot of providers using Cerner ambulatory EHR.

Also, as always, I don’t want to forget to thank those advertisers that have renewed their EMR and HIPAA ad. Since the last time I posted, SOAPware, Mitochon, HIT Forum, and Sequelmed have all renewed their ad. Thanks for supporting us. If you enjoy the content I create, then please take a second to check out these advertisers.

Now on to the next 5 million pageviews on EMR and HIPAA. A big thanks to all those that read our work.

Every couple months I like to take a bit of an inventory on EMR and HIPAA along with recognizing new advertisers to the EMR and HIPAA family along. Not to mention send out a big thanks to all those advertisers who have renewed during that time period as well.

EMR and HIPAA is still doing more amazing than I ever thought it could. During the slow summer months we’re still averaging about 4500 pageviews per day. In fact, we’re inching ever closer to 5 million pageviews since we first started tracking the stats. I think I might have to celebrate the day we reach that landmark.

This will be the 1,139th post on EMR and HIPAA and we’ve had 5,590 comments made. That’s roughly 5 comments per post. So thank you to all those who contribute to the amazing community that exists around EMR and HIPAA. Much of the best information happens in the comments.

I’m also really excited to say that we just passed 3000 email subscriptions to EMR and HIPAA as well. Pretty amazing since I only started the email newsletter a short while ago.

New Advertisers
A number of advertisers started their ad campaign on EMR and HIPAA since I last posted. Many of them are really benefiting from the rotating sidebar ads that I announced last post. You can find more details on EMR and HIPAA advertising.

GFI – FaxMaker – GFI offers a number of interesting services for small to medium size businesses. One that’s particularly interesting in the healthcare space is called the GFI FaxMaker. If you don’t already have a fax server in your office, go and read my post about the virtues of a fax server in healthcare.

Quest – Care360 – I’ve long been intrigued by the Quest EHR model. I think that having an EHR from your lab company provides some interesting benefits that can’t be realized by other EHR vendors. Plus, I love the idea that their EHR is already setup for thousands of doctor’s offices who already use Care360 for their labs. All they have to do is turn on the EHR module. That’s a compelling reason for many clinics to consider the Care360 EHR.

Amazing Charts – Amazing Charts has become not only an advertiser on EMR and HIPAA, but you’ll see them across the entire network of Healthcare Scene websites. Amazing Charts was one of the first EHR vendors to offer a relatively inexpensive EHR product. They were one of the first companies to move the EHR cost needle while still providing a high quality product. Amazing Charts was started by a practicing family physician, you can read about his and the Amazing Chart journey here.

Health Informatics Forum – A great health informatics forum that’s run by the incredibly interesting Chris Paton. The forum has over 5,000 members discussing a variety of healthcare informatics topics. One of the things I like most about the forum is the real international flavor. I love learning from healthcare informatics in other countries. This healthcare informatics forum is a good place to start.

Renewing Advertisers
Of course, I’m always overwhelmed by the number of companies that continue to renew their advertising on EMR and HIPAA. Thanks this time to Practice Fusion, EMR Consultant, MxSecure, Mitochon Systems, Nuesoft, Sequelmed, Scantronix, Medical Web Experts, and GE Centricity Advance for all renewing their ads. Almost everyone on that list has been long time supporters of what we do at EMR and HIPAA.

This may turn out to be the smartest or dumbest idea that I’ve ever tried here on EMR and HIPAA. Although, I’ve never been one afraid to try something and look stupid. I think that’s one of my greatest strengths. I’m willing to try something crazy even if it doesn’t work. Of course, many times it turns into something really great. Hopefully this turns out to be the later.

I’ve been seeing so many people doing video and so many people interested in video. So, I decided I’d give it a try. I’m attacking EMR video in 2 different ways. First, I’ve launched a new EHR, EMR and Healthcare IT videos website. We’ve already posted 32 different EMR and EHR videos to the site and it’s seeing some great traffic. Of course, if you know of other videos you think we should post to the site, please do let us know. We’ll keep on posting the best EMR, EHR and Healthcare IT videos that we find.

The second part of this plan is that I’m planning to make a number of EMR related videos myself. In my true boot-strapper style they won’t be huge productions. Instead, they’ll focus on the content (like I do on this blog). At first, I’m planning to do the videos in a question and answer style. I’ve already got a number of questions from Twitter and a previous post I did, but feel free to post other questions you’d like me to answer in the comments of this post.

Plus, I figured I might as well go all in and do the video live. That’s right, I’ll be broadcasting the video I create live to my EMR and HIPAA uStream channel. I’ll be starting the video tomorrow (5/24/11) at about 2 PM PST (5 PM EST). So, feel free to connect to the live streaming video of me answering questions. Plus, when you connect you can ask questions of me live. Hopefully a few of you show up so that I’m not just talking to myself. Of course, if you don’t then I’ll try to still post the video after the event as well.

In fact, I tested out the system today and recorded this video. Excuse the t-shirt and baseball cap. Tomorrow I’ll see if I can upgrade the wardrobe a little bit.

What do you think of this idea? Is it insane? Do you like it? Are you looking forward to the free advice and consulting?

Things are rocking and rolling here at EMR and HIPAA and Healthcare Scene. As you have probably seen, I’ve been working really hard to provide a platform for the independent voices in healthcare IT. We currently have 8 blogs in the Healthcare Scene blog network and 3 more in beta that will be announced officially in the next week.

If you’ve read this blog, you know that I’m narrowly focused on bringing good information to doctors and practice managers. I sincerely don’t have any particular agendas or hidden motives. My goal is to provide some amount of transparency and quality information to the masses mixed in with some thoughtful commentary on the world of EMR, EHR and Healthcare IT. Hopefully that’s what you see when you read.

A couple of the new blogs I’ll be officially launching in the next week will help in that goal as well. Not to mention a couple other side projects which I’m working on which could be really exciting if all goes well. Was that vague enough for you?

A big thank goes out to the EMR and HIPAA advertisers. They keep the lights on and let me do this as a full time job. Not to mention, I’ve even been able to start hiring some other writers like Neil Versel (see Neil Versel’s EMR and HIPAA posts). Since I last posted I’ve added one new advertiser and had 7 of my current advertisers renew. I love new advertisers, but it makes me feel really good when advertisers renew.

New Advertiser
SynaMed – A web based EMR with fully integrated PM system. Yes, they are ONC-ATBC 2011/2012 Certified as a Complete EHR. They offer an affordable monthly subscription, no startup-fees, no hidden costs, and training and support included at no additional cost. Synamed was founded in 1999 by a physician in New York City with thousands of medical practitioners and patients across the US.

Renewing Advertisers
Intersystems, Sfax, Enterprise Software Deployment, MDCare EMR, MxSecure, eDoctor, Inc, Mitochon Systems

Starting July 1st, I have some nice changes for advertisers. The goal being to provide all advertisers equal exposure to the top spots on EMRandHIPAA.com. I also completed a Healthcare Scene media kit for those interested in advertising on any of the Healthcare Scene network of sites. If you’re interested, just leave me a note on our Contact Us page.

If you have any thoughts on how we can make EMRandHIPAA.com or any part of the Healthcare Scene network of blogs better, let us know. We’re always open to feedback.

You know on the weekends I love to through in a little round up of some interesting things said about healthcare IT, EMR and other topics on Twitter. Hopefully, they’ll educate, entertain and inform. If not, tomorrow’s another edition of Meaningful Use Monday.

T2: I used to read 4 newsletters, now I don’t. I’ve chg’d to read tweets & blog post – so much more current. #hcsm

April 24, 2011 5:26 pm via TweetDeckReplyRetweetFavorite

@Colin_Hung

Colin Hung

I’ve been talking about this quite a bit lately on this blog (see my post about social media EMR information). However, I love how the described their shift from newsletters to tweets and blog posts since they’re more current. I obviously agree. Although, if you subscribe to the EMR and HIPAA email you can enjoy the convenience of an email newsletter with the current info of a blog.

Rock Health Launches –The First Seed Accelerator to Promote Interactive Health http://dlvr.it/PZc58

April 24, 2011 11:37 am via dlvr.itReplyRetweetFavorite

@ehrandhit

EMR, EHR and HIT

I saw this announcement a while ago. I’m really excited to see what Rock Health is able to do. They definitely have a number of big names. I wish that I was some way involved with them since I love their approach. Plus, I’m really excited to have my brother, David, participating with me on the Smart Phone Healthcare website I recently launched. Mobile healthcare is a really hot area of the market and I think together we’re going to bring some interesting perspectives to the mobile area of healthcare.

E-Prescribing Incentive Program Comparison: http://bit.ly/hAjVe5 #healthit #medicare #meaningfuluse

April 23, 2011 6:22 am via webReplyRetweetFavorite

@richelmore

HealthcareTechNews

I usually hate PDF’s and a tweet in a blog post that leads to a PDF is probably even worse. Although, it has an interesting format for considering the multiple e-Prescribing incentive programs. Of course, if you’re a regular reader of the site, then you already have started ePrescribing right?

LOL! RT @WilIFerrell: Facebook is like jail, you sit around & waste time, you write on walls & you get poked by people you don’t know.

April 23, 2011 5:17 pm via webReplyRetweetFavorite

@Colin_Hung

Colin Hung

This just made me laugh and so I had to share it. Although, if you Like EMR and HIPAA on Facebook, then it will be so much better than prison. Well, maybe not much better, but it will make me smile.

UPDATE: In case you couldn’t tell, this was an April Fool’s joke.

Over the past year myself and the other people here at EMR and HIPAA have been working like crazy on a very exciting new project. We’ve obviously seen first hand the many doctors that are dissatisfied with their current EMR and the current EMR vendors. We kept wondering how we could fix this problem. In the end, we decided that the best way to solve this problem would be to fix this problem ourselves. So, I’m really pleased to announce the launch of a new EMR software product by EMR and HIPAA called DoctorEZ (cool name huh?).

We’re still in beta right now working with only the best doctors we know to refine the product. Although, here’s the goals for our EMR software:

• No Cost for the EMR – Why should doctors have to pay for software? Haven’t you ever heard of a free lunch? That’s what we’re offering here.
• Zero Implementation Time – If you think you want DoctorEZ, it’s already installed. Doctors don’t want to take the time to implement the EMR software and so we decided to take out the implementation time.
• No Training Needed – Doctors have an MD after their name. That means they were basically professional students for most of their life. Why burden them with more training? That’s why we don’t.
• Universal Device Domination – Some people like their iPad. Fine we do that. Blackberry Playbook. It’s not released, but we support them too. Desktop. Check. Laptop. Check. iPhone, Droid, Blackberry, iPod touch, Pay as you Go phone. Check, check, check, check, check. Xbox, PS3, Tivo and Wii. You got it!
• Standards Based – SNOMED, ICD-9, EZ, ICD-10, 23%, ICD-11, SMRT, ICD-666, CPT, 1040-EZ, 5010, 90210, ACO, 867-5309, ieee, HAL-0999, etc. You bet!
• Supports All Specialties – Some people like to say that specialties have different needs. Not with the DoctorEZ EMR. It satisfies every specialty with a unique Specializer (TM) system.
• Easy – Did I mention that this was easy? (That’s why we called it DoctorEZ after all)
• Interoperability – As if other EMR are sophisticated enough to integrate with us.
• Increase Billing – Of course we do. Why else would you buy us? It’s not about the patient after all…speaking of which…
• Patient – We thought about some great features to help patients, but our beta test doctors asked us why. They then told us patients were a dime a dozen and it was all about the reimbursement. At DoctorEZ we listen to our customers.
• Interplanetary Hosting – I’m sure many of you are wondering if the new EMR will be a SaaS based EMR or client server based EMR. We decided since we were offering this for free that neither of those options was good enough for our doctors. Instead we launched a new interplanetary hosting option. That’s right. Your EMR data will be safely stored on our own personal network of data centers located on Mars, Saturn and Venus (we tried Pluto, but it lost its planet status and so we had to change direction). We had Neil Armstong sign a HIPAA business associate agreement, so you’re all covered if he heads to Mars and happens upon your patient’s info.
• EMR or EHR – Maybe you missed the part above about patients. Plus, did you see us use the word EHR in this article. I didn’t think so.
• EHR Certification – Are you kidding? Of course we are. Our business wouldn’t survive without it. Although, since we’re not an EHR we had to create our own certification called EZ Certification. Let’s just say it was easy to do. Will it get you access to the government handouts for EHR? Probably not, but you didn’t pay for the EMR and we didn’t pay for the EMR certification so it all works out. You will get to put up an DoctorEZ Certification sign on your door with our cute little bunny rabbit logo.
• Support – We’re from Las Vegas, the city that never sleeps. Neither do our support people. That’s why we’ve spared no expense on chaining them to their chairs and installing the shock collars to make sure they don’t sleep. In fact, the top DoctorEZ EMR feature is the “Shock My Support Person” EZ button.
• EMR Usability – At DoctorEZ we alpha tested a direct brain to EMR input. Basically if you think it, we record it. Only problem was we found out what the doctor was really thinking. Let’s just say I was surprised how many doctors play Farmville. To solve this problem, we’ve integrated Farmville into our EMR in a really fantastically usable way. Now doctors are no longer distracted thinking about Farmville since they’ll actually be playing it.
• Doctor Flattery Module – How many other EMR software really focus on the doctors? We’re taking it to a whole new level by randomly displaying a flattering comment about the doctor on the screen. In back office mode, a lovely male or female voice (configurable) will sound to compliment the doctor on their incredible skill, beautiful hair or amazing technique. Repeat Compliment button is available.

There’s so much more to the DoctorEZ EMR, but I think you get a feel for where we’re going. Who’s ready to sign up? Sorry. We’re in beta. However, I do like a nice piece of Cheesecake with hot fudge on top from Cheesecake Factory *wink* *wink*.

Today I’m happy to officially introduce readers of EMR and HIPAA to my latest project: The Healthcare Scene blog network. If you follow me on twitter (@techguy and @ehrandhit), then you’ve probably already come across one or more of the great blogs in this new healthcare IT blog network. I’m really excited with the group of bloggers that I have working on the network and the amazing content they’ve been creating and will create.

Before I introduce you to the various websites on the network, here’s a little background in why I decided to do this. As I looked at the various healthcare IT and EMR bloggers producing content, I was disappointed that many of them were creating great content that wasn’t getting nearly as much attention and traffic as the content deserved. Plus, many hadn’t benefited financially from all the great content they were creating. Combine lack of traffic with lack of financial rewards and these independent voices often disappear.

I saw this as a real opportunity to leverage many of the marketing and advertising tools that I’d created for EMR and HIPAA to the benefit of many others in the EMR and healthcare IT world. Plus, a number of my current advertisers told me that there weren’t enough online healthcare IT advertising options out there. I see this network as a real win for everyone. Independent bloggers can have their voices magnified while making money doing so. Readers and the EMR and Healthcare IT industry get more independently created content (including content by doctors). Healthcare IT advertisers will have more opportunities to advertise next to great content. I get to expand my network and work with a bunch of really smart people.

Now here’s a look at the websites that will be part of the Healthcare Scene blog network:

• Meaningful HIT News – This blog written by Neil Versel started in May 2004 and has over 500 posts. Neil is one of the only pure healthcare IT journalists out there and has been doing it for the past 15 years across more publishers than you can count, but most recently at Fierce Healthcare. I’m excited that Neil has chosen to move his blog to the HealthcareScene.com blog network. He’s a must read journalist for anyone in EMR and healthcare IT. I borrowed much of my writing style from Neil and so if you like this site, go and subscribe to Meaningful HIT News email list and you won’t be disappointed.
• EMR and Healthcare IT News – The firehose of EMR and Healthcare IT news sent out by vendors. A great way for vendors to get their word out and for industry people to see the latest developments in EMR and healthcare IT. I’m looking to partner with healthcare IT PR firms on the site, so hit my Contact Us page if you’re interested.
• Happy EMR Doctor – This blog first started out as a Doctor’s Blog guest post on EMR and EHR, but the content from Dr. West was too good. So, I rolled it off onto its own blog. Dr. West has been through a failed EHR implementation and now is using one of the Free EHR vendors. So, he has some interesting stories to tell.
• Smartphone Health Care – I recently heard that there were something like 30+ mobile health conferences or conferences with a mobile health track in the past year. That seems like far too many, but it is quite clear that Smart Phones and other mobile devices are going to play a huge role in the future of healthcare. Consider this my foray into the mHealth world.
• Wired EMR Practice – Many of you might remember that I already introduced Dr. Koriwchak’s blog on EMR and HIPAA earlier. Many of you subscribed to his blog and have seen the type of quality content he’s creating. I love doctor’s perspectives on EMR.
• nextHospital – We’ll see how this blog evolves, but it’s the Healthcare Scene’s first blog that isn’t really IT focused. Written by Katherine Rourke (mentioned above), nextHospital will focus on the business of healthcare in hospitals.
• EMR, EHR and HIPAA Wiki – Not a blog, but a pretty cool part of the network nonetheless. Be sure to add your EHR vendor if it’s not on there already.
• EMR and EHR Job Board – Not a blog either, but this job board will be syndicated across all the HealthcareScene.com websites. So, it’s a great places to post or look for a job.
• EMR and HIPAA – Hopefully it needs no intro if you’re reading this post. Let’s just say, 1000 posts, 4713 comments, and over 4 million pageviews.
• EMR and EHR – Very similar to EMR and HIPAA, but only about 2 years old. 300 posts, 1092 comments and 700,000+ pagevies. Katherine Rourke, a healthcare IT journalist with 15+ years of experience, recently started posting on EMR and EHR and is a welcome addition to the site.

I’d say that’s a pretty good start. I’m in talks with a few more bloggers that may or may not join the network. I think there’s still some interesting niches that haven’t been filled. For example, a blog tracking publicly traded healthcare IT stock movements and other healthcare IT investment opportunities could be interesting. Either way, I’m excited to see all the great content that will be created on these sites. Much like this site, each site encourages you to respectfully comment, share the content, and join the conversation. Please let your voice be heard in the comments.

Yes, right now each site looks very much like the rest, but we’re just getting started. Over time I’ll work to give each blogger it’s own brand while also building up the HealthcareScene.com domain to better represent all the activity that’s happening on the network. I see it becoming a virtual hub of the best and brightest conversations happening in and around healthcare IT and EMR.

Let me know what you think of these additions in the comments or drop me a note on my Contact Us page.

It’s been about 3 months since I posted about healthcare IT advertising and the advertisers that keep EMR and HIPAA running. However, I’ve been talking to a lot of people lately about healthcare IT advertising since before HIMSS I’m planning:
1. A New Premium Advertising Package Announcement
2. Launch of a New Healthcare Blog Network

In those discussions (and certainly influenced by the crazy money spent by vendors for HIMSS), I like to give this comparison:
“Compare what you spend at a conference like HIMSS with the 1 million ad impressions a 6 month ad run (Currently $2100) on EMRandHIPAA.com will provide.”

Yep, it costs vendors more to fly people out to a conference than it does to advertise on a very targeted EMR site. I’m currently working on a media kit to help better quantify the value that an advertiser on EMRandHIPAA.com and our family of websites provides.

Even with my pretty simple EMRandHIPAA.com advertising page, we’ve had a lot of very supportive advertisers. In fact, since the last time I posted about new EMR and HIPAA advertisers, I’ve had 8 existing advertisers renew their ads and 3 new advertisers sign up. New advertisers are always great, but there’s a great feeling when an existing advertiser renews since that means they’re getting real value from their investment.

On that note, here’s a look at the 3 new advertisers:

Mitochon – I first met the people behind Mitochon at last year’s HIMSS. They have a real vision for how they think that EHR adoption will occur and I won’t be surprised if they’re right. They offer a Free Certified SaaS EHR, but that’s only the start of their services. They really believe that some of the biggest benefits of EHR is in virtual medical communities. So, they offer an integrated HIE, EMR and PHR. One of the best features of a free EHR is that you can signup for free and try out the full application. So, go check it out and let me know what you think.

Nuesoft – I have a soft place in my heart for Nuesoft. No, not because they created the brilliant Lady Gaga HL7 Interface video. I think fondly of Nuesoft since they were the first EMR I came across when I started working in healthcare IT. The intense 3 day training at their offices was the start of my EMR education. I’m really happy to have their support as an advertiser. Beyond their SaaS EHR offering, they also recently announced the launch of a medical billing service called Nuetopia.

Medical Web Experts – This is a new type of advertiser for EMR and HIPAA since it’s a marketing company that does advertising for a number of different healthcare IT companies. Some of the companies they work with include: PrognoCIS, EMR Consultant, EliteHealthm Phylogic and EMR Experts. John Deutsch is the mastermind behind Medical Web Experts and he also was my very first advertiser on EMRandHIPAA.com. He took the leap advertising on my site in the very early days. It’s great to have him back again.

Thanks also to those advertisers that renewed their ads: Intersystems, PracticeFusion, SOAPware, Ambir, MD-IT, MDCare, MxSecure,and SequelMed.

Side Note: If you’re interested in advertising on EMR and HIPAA, I’d act quickly since the price for the ads is going to increase heading into HIMSS.