EHR adoption has been really slowed by the passing of the $18 in EHR stimulus money. However, that doesn’t stop the EHR companies from doing everything...
Archive - May 2009
There’s a whole lot of discussion going on (rightfully so) right now about CCHIT EHR certification and of course the term “certified EHR.” I...
I’ve posted previously the best video I’ve seen promoting EHR use. Today I came across another video that talks about some of the benefits and...
Yes, I’ve compared EMR to Marriage and it talks about it being a huge deal to “divorce” your EMR. Yes, I’ve compared EMR Implementation...
No doubt many small EHR companies have been looking at themselves in the mirror long and hard and asking themselves how they’re going to survive this...
A feature of every EMR vendor is a whole multitude of sales lines. If you’ve ever talked to a EMR sales person, you know what I’m talking about...
A little while back, the Health Care blog has a pretty interesting post talking about how to define the term EHR. Normally, this debate would just be an...
In honor of Memorial Day, I took the weekend off. This ended up being a good thing since Saturday evening I was feeling quite sick. What a way to spend my time...
I posted an EHR stimulus poll a week ago and I thought it would be interesting to post some preliminary results. I really wish a few more people would have...
How do you make health databases talk? Use the ‘Health Level Seven’ (HL7) protocol. How do you make them say something other than four letter...