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MediCHI Consulting & The Bradford Report

♦ Ugly old EMR gets a facelift – a major redesign for the Department of Veterans Affairs’ electronic medical record system: MediCHI67

♦ Are physician adoption rates for electronic medical records finally turning the corner? MediCHI66

♦ AMA to offer Docs access to major EMR system: MediCHI65,  CareTracker

♦ The healthcare blogosphere is enormous and growing. Here is a list of some of the world’s top healthcare blogs: MediCHI64

♦ Struggling for clarity on EMR privacy rules: MediCHI63

♦ Defensive Buying – Your Key to Selecting the Best Medical Software: MediCHI62

♦ A Distributed Infrastructure for Veterinary Telemedicine: MediCHI61

♦ EMR systems for veterinarians:  MediCHI60

♦ A thoughtful paper on how EMR systems can improve the productivity of medical practices:  MediCHI59

♦ SOAP (Subjective, Objective, Assessment, and Plan) definition and example: Definition / Example

♦ A collection of Electronic Medical Record (EMR) workflow diagrams: D1, D2, D3, D4

♦ Congress reviews legislation to provide small medical practices with funding for healthcare I.T.  MediCHI58

♦ Design Contest: Research teams come up with innovative Personal Health Records (PHR) Applications:  MediCHI57

♦ A cautionary tale – electronic health records raise doubt:  MediCHI56

♦ Seven Reasons to Have a Digital Personal Health Record:  MediCHI55

♦ Increased spending to drive healthcare IT job market: MediCHI54

♦ Healthcare I.T. Company Overview–ALLSCRIPTS:  MediCHI53

♦ Healthcare I.T. Company Overview–CERNER:  MediCHI52

♦ Healthcare I.T. Company Overview–ABRAXAS MEDICAL SOLUTIONS:  MediCHI51

♦ Top technologies impacting hospital executives:  MediCHI50

♦ The Value Of Electronic Health Records In Solo Or Small Group Practices:  MediCHI49

♦ Getting different EMR systems to talk to each other:  MediCHI48

♦ The Declaration of Innsbruck–a moral imperative to evaluate health information systems:  MediCHI47

♦ Twitter for Health and Medicine:  MediCHI46

♦ Preventable medical errors are still the largest cause of accidental death in the US:  MediCHI45

♦ Healthcare I.T. Company Overview–RELWARE:  MediCHI44

♦ Healthcare I.T. Company Overview–INGENIOUS MED:  MediCHI43

♦ Healthcare I.T. Company Overview–DOCTATIONS:  MediCHI42

♦ Should we have our medical records implanted into our bodies?  MediCHI41

♦ CPOE (Computerized Physician Order Entry) Still Rare at Hospitals:  MediCHI40

♦ Should doctors’ offices go SaaS? (SaaS = Software as a Service):  MediCHI39

♦ Is Software as a Service (SaaS) the solution for electronic medical records (EMR)?  MediCHI38

♦ Dr. BlackBerry: Eight Apps Making Medicine More Mobile:  MediCHI37

♦ An EHR Without Appropriate Technical Infrastructure = Patient Risk:  MediCHI36

♦ Return on Investment (ROI) for Human Factors Work:  MediCHI35

♦ AARP report on Personal Health Record Systems: MediCHI34

♦ Open Source Electronic Medical Record Systems:  MediCHI33

♦ ICD-10 Implementation Should Begin By Jan 18, 2010: MediCHI32 + What is ICD-10? MediCHI31

♦ A good research paper on the usability Personal Health Record Systems:  MediCHI30

♦ “I’ve fallen and I can’t get up” — $4 billion by 2013:  MediCHI29

♦ Electronic Medical Record Systems buyer’s guide:  MediCHI28

♦ The Red Flag rules – identity theft and the design of medical record systems:  MediCHI27

♦ Manhattan community college gets ready to offer an EHR program:  MediCHI26

♦ HIPAA is now a civil right?  MediCHI25

♦ “HIE & RHIO” more letters for the healthcare I.T. alphabet soup!  MediCHI24

♦ List of 5 hospitals recognized for excellence in health care information technology (HIT) http://tinyurl.com/BR-HotTopics:  MediCHI23

♦ David Blumenthal, the alpha dog of health care information technology:  MediCHI22

♦ “Do electronic medical records live up to the hype? The short answer is yes”:  MediCHI21

♦ Personal Health Record application for the iPhone:  MediCHI20

♦ Medical data MUST be secure, max HIPAA fine raised to $1.5 Mil:  MediCHI19

♦  Brief US government report on healthcare IT adoption rates: http://tinyurl.com/BR-HotTopics: MediCHI18

♦  Cisco’s view of the security Electronic Medical Record systems: MediCHI17

♦  Google’s free Personal Health Record (PHR) system, “Google Health”: MediCHI16

♦  Microsoft’s free Personal Health Record (PHR) system, “HealthVault”:  MediCHI15

♦  Is this the year the EMR bubble will burst?  MediCHI14

♦  5 Ways Physicians Can Profit from Using an EMR:  MediCHI13

♦  Personal Health Records (phr), Google vs. Microsoft:  MediCHI12

♦ Using pen and paper workarounds could boost EMR efficiency:  MediCHI11

♦ Are you a health care technology honcho? Thinking of getting certified?  MediCHI10

♦ The good and the bad – a few Pros and Cons of electronic medical record system:  MediCHI9

♦ Excellent & comprehensive glossary of EMR terms courtesy of our friends at myEMRchoice.com: MediCHI8

♦ Intro to HL7 — the communication protocol for medical software:  MediCHI7

♦ The definition of EMR “Meaningful Use ” should be much simpler:  MediCHI6

♦ Feds offer grant to develop family medical history:  MediCHI5

♦ 45,000 doctors could receive IT incentives:  MediCHI4

♦ Very thorough paper on the usability of Electronic Medical Record (EMR) systems:  MediCHI3

♦ Jakob Nielson’s 1 minute course on usability: MediCHI2

♦ Computerized Physician Order Entry (CPOE) how long ’til everyone is doing it? (courtesy of a friend at RelWare)  MediCHI1