May 17, 2012 Susan Heichert, Mary Bear-Dukes, and Dawn Mitchell
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Some hospitals and health systems are looking to extend their own EMR solutions to independent hospitals and clinics. The practice became possible with the relaxation of anti-kickback statutes in 2006, but the sense of urgency has heightened in today’s environment. In fact, some organizations are even implementing new EMR solutions internally while extending the same solution to private practices simultaneously.
May 14, 2012
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According to a study from researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, an EMR tool that tallies patients' previous radiation exposure from CT scans can help reduce potentially unnecessary use of the tests among emergency room patients with abdominal pain. When the tool is in use, researchers say patients are 10 percent less likely to undergo a CT scan, without increasing the number of patients who are admitted to the hospital.
May 14, 2012
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According to a new report from Orem, Utah-based KLAS, more providers are using Software as a Service (SaaS) solutions for their EMRs, thanks to growing confidence in cloud storage, as well as increasingly limited hardware expenses. The report, “SaaS EMR 2012: Is It For You?" says SaaS EMR vendors, such as AdvancedMD, athenahealth, Bizmatics, and CureMD, are growing in prominence.
May 10, 2012 Gabriel Perna
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HCI Assistant Editor Gabriel Perna spoke with vice president of research at the Orem, Utah-based research and consulting firm, KLAS, Coray Tate, in an exclusive interview to put the recent Allscripts situation in context. Tate talked about what he thinks of the company’s current operating environment and how customers may react to the latest news.
May 8, 2012 David Raths
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Consumer queries about the accuracy and completeness of patient records are only expected to grow. Some health systems are working on ways to include patient feedback, but no standard approach has yet emerged.
May 7, 2012
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According to HIMSS Analytics Europe, the Marina Salud Hospital de Dénia in Spain has achieved Stage 7 of the Electronic Medical Record Adoption Model (EMRAM), making it the first to do so in Spain and the second in Europe. The EMRAM aims to evaluate the digitization level of a hospital, with hospitals ranked from Stage 0-7, the latter being awarded for achieving a paperless medical record environment.
May 2, 2012
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BCS, The British-based Chartered Institute for IT, is teaming up with the Chicago-based Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) to introduce HIMSS Analytics’ Electronic Medical Records Adoption Model (EMRAM), which rates hospitals on their EMR adoption, to the UK.
April 30, 2012
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Chicago-based EMR vendor, Allscripts Healthcare Solutions, Inc. has announced that Dennis Chookaszian has been named the company’s new Chairman for its Board of Directors. Chookaszian has been a director on the board since September 2010 and replaces the outgoing Chairman, Phil Pead, who was fired recently.
April 25, 2012
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According to a new report from New York-based market research publisher Kalorama Information, the fastest growing segment in the EMR market is web-based solutions, sold over the internet, mainly to private, office-based physicians. Overall, sales of EMRs to physicians grew at an estimated 22 percent from 2010 to 2011 higher than the growth of EMR sales to hospital systems.
April 25, 2012
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In a recent study, researchers Harvard School of Public Health, Mathematica Policy Research, and elsewhere, have discovered that while there has been an uptick in the number of hospitals adopting of EHRs, there is also a growing gap in the adoption of at least a basic record system based on size and location. Small, non-teaching, and rural hospitals continue to lag behind other types of hospitals, according to the study, which recently appeared in Health Affairs.
April 18, 2012
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In a report from the Orem, Utah-based research firm, KLAS, most urgent care facilities looking to expand in size or location are finding varying types of EMR solutions including ambulatory EMRs, ED solutions, and best-of-breed urgent care EMRs. For the Urgent Care 2012: A Host of EMR Options report, KLAS interviewed 76 urgent care organizations about their EMR vendor’s performance, focusing on best-of-breed vendors.
April 9, 2012
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.....only clinician involvement can orchestrates the process by which clinicians are “integrated” in the process of delivery of quality-centered care. An obstructionist clinician team can derail an otherwise successful HIT adoption project and/or your EHR application implementation.
