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Contributing Writer · December 13, 2010
Electronic EHR Scheduling
It’s a simple concept: schedule an appointment, see the patient and bill for the appointment. It only makes sense for an EHR to include a schedule that is connected to patients’ charts.
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Contributing Writer · December 9, 2010
Practice Fusion and Health Information Exchanges
An important goal in the effort to achieve widespread adoption of Electronic Health Records (EHRs) is to allow patient data to flow easily from where it is housed to where it is needed. Though it is conceptually simple, such a goal is remarkably difficult to...
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Contributing Writer · December 2, 2010
Accountable Care Organizations and Meaningful Use of EMRs
Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) have received considerable attention recently, and are the new “hot topic” in healthcare delivery policy circles. They are the latest response to the need to do something to stem the runaway inflation of healthcare costs, while maintaining or improving measurable health...
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Contributing Writer · November 23, 2010
How use of medical data will change the future of healthcare
The intelligent use of medical data is a foundation stone for the dramatic changes coming to healthcare. Patient treatment, doctors’ and hospitals’ business models, and the role of government in regulation and reimbursement are all undergoing profound changes, and heated debate – but the underpinning...
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Contributing Writer · November 18, 2010
Can EMR usage make a difference in medication non-adherence?
A recent report in the Annals of Internal Medicine on the characteristics of prescriptions that are abandoned at the pharmacy raise the question of (1) how to ensure that people actually pick up their prescriptions, and (2) how to make sure that people actually take...
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