Are Certifications For “Home-Grown” EMRs Better?
In January of this year, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center became the first hospital to have its home-grown EMR certified by CCHIT under its EHR Alternative Certification for Hospitals (EACH)...
View ArticleWhy Aren’t You Using the VistA EMR?
For years, health IT pundits have marveled at the VA’s open source EMR, VistA, which has long had the reputation of being one of the best platforms available anywhere. Not only has it been in existence...
View ArticleBeth Israel Deaconess Uses Lessons Learned To Protect Bombing Patient Data
When terrorists exploded bombs at the Boston Marathon, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center was one of the hospitals that received patients injured in the attack. With world attention focused on the...
View ArticleSome Hospitals Still Choosing To Build Own EMR
While buying an off-the-shelf EMR solves many problems, it does require hospitals to invest large amounts of capital and spend a long time adjusting the system to clinicians’ needs. For that reason, a...
View ArticleVideo Interview with John Halamka, CIO at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Today, I happened upon a really laid back interview by CXOTalk with John Halamka, CIO at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and a bunch of other things (see the list at the bottom of this post). John...
View ArticleAthenahealth Going to Inpatient EHR School
In case you missed it, Athenahealth announced a collaboration with Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and the purchase of their webOMR platform. This comes on the heels of Athenahealth’s acquisition...
View ArticleBIDMC’s Internal EHR and A Possible Epic Future
One of the surprising reactions for me in the announcement of Athenahealth’s acquisition of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center’s (BIDMC) in house webOMR platform was by John Halamka. As I mention in...
View ArticleMaybe It’s Time To Phase Out The Meaningful Use Program
Since Stage 1 of the Meaningful Use incentive program kicked off in 2011, the level of health IT adoption has risen dramatically across the United States. As publicly-funded programs go, it’s had quite...
View ArticleAthenahealth Amps Up Drive To Build Inpatient EMR
EMR vendor athenahealth has been driving forward for a while now to build a new hospital inpatient system and fight for the big-ticket customers in acute care. Given the intense competition for the...
View ArticleStudy: Hospital EMR Rollouts Didn’t Cause Patient Harm
Rolling out a hospital EMR can be very disruptive. The predictable problems that can arise – from the need to cut back on ambulatory patient visits to the staff learning curve to unplanned outages –...
View ArticleRush University Medical Center Rolls Out OpenNotes
Back in 2010, a group of primary care doctors from three different healthcare organizations across the US came together to launch a project in which they’d begin sharing their clinical notes directly...
View ArticleBeth Israel Deaconess Launches Health Innovation Center
In yet another example of a health system bringing innovation home, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center has launched an in-house center combining the feel of a startup incubator and the vast reach of...
View ArticleHL7 Releases New FHIR Update
HL7 has announced the release of a new version of FHIR designed to link it with real-world concepts and players in healthcare, marking the third of five planned updates. It’s also issuing the first...
View ArticleXerox Files Patents For Blockchain-Based Tech With Healthcare Applications
According to a site focused on blockchain technology, Xerox has filed patents for technology using blockchain to securely revise electronic documents. The patent application was filed in February of...
View ArticleWhat’s Involved In Getting To EHR 2.0?
While the current crop of EHRs have (arguably) served a useful purpose, I think we’d all agree that there’s a ton of room for improvement. The question is, what will it take to move EHRs forward?...
View ArticleIn What Seems Like An Effort To Make Nice, eClinicalWorks Joins OpenNotes...
eClinicalWorks has decided to try something new. The health IT vendor has announced that it will support the OpenNotes project, an initiative in which doctors share their notes with patients. As most...
View ArticleHospitals Taking Next-Gen EHR Development Seriously
Physicians have never been terribly happy with EHRs, most of which have done little to meet the lofty clinical goals set forth by healthcare leaders. Despite the fact that EHRs have been a fact of life...
View ArticleAmazon Offers $2M Grant To Harvard Teaching Hospital To Conduct AI Research
Amazon is showing a decided interest in the increasingly hot area of healthcare AI, first by offering a text analytics product and now by partnering to study AI use in a clinical setting. Late last...
View ArticleIt’s High Time To Set Healthcare AI Standards, And Clinicians Should Be Involved
Having spent the last couple of years looking at the clinical use of AI, I’ve become increasingly convinced — as have, no doubt, many of you — that AI will eventually play an important role in...
View ArticlePatients Say Access To Visit Notes Is Important In Maintaining Their Health
Back in 2010, a group of primary care doctors from three different healthcare organizations across the U.S. came together to try something different. The three institutions – Beth Israel Deaconess...
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