Tag: EMR

10Mar, 2016

HIMSS 2016, Part 2

By: Charity Darby | Tags: Accountable Care Organizations, care-management, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), EHR, EMR, HIMSS, meaningful use, Medicare Sustainable Growth (SGR), pay for performance

As we noted in our last blog “every year the best and the brightest in health information technology industry via the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society’s (HIMSS) annual meeting meet for a week. This year it was in Las Vegas, Nevada. I will admit, I missed it; and maybe I should have gone to this one. I have received 100s of industry emails. Something certainly happened; so I will take two more blogs, this and the next, and move on to other things. There has been major talk about […]
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3Mar, 2016

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HIMSS 2016 Part 1

By: Charity Darby | Tags: consumers, EHR, EMR, healthcare, Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS), HL-7, MU-2, technology, technology companies

Every year, the best and the brightest in the health information technology industry, via the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society’s (HIMSS) annual meeting, meet for a week. This year, it’s in Las Vegas, Nevada. An amazing experience I have enjoyed on more than one occasion. The convention is attended by sizeable healthcare delivery systems, clearly large and small technology companies. Almost always missing; actual healthcare providers. The sad news of that is, everyone is building and demonstrating technology that impacts the providers more than anyone. In the 3 times […]
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25Feb, 2016

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Sharing Patient Data, What is next?

By: Charity Darby | Tags: cloud, communication, doctor, EHR, EMR, health information, interconnectivity, medical records, sharing, taxes, technology

As all American’s begin the process of assembling financial records to file their personal income taxes, it has come to mind, how easy the process has become to pay our personal taxes. Today the information flows in and flow out via your computer. You can now synchronize you credit cards and checking account in the cloud and prepare your financial statements and then file your taxes online. Yet, currently 50% of all medical offices still have paper medical records. Of those, approximately 50% that have meaningful use software, an even […]
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11Feb, 2016

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Medical Robots

By: Charity Darby | Tags: cloud-based computers, EHR, EMR, generations, healthcare, medical robots, PWeR, real time, robot assistance, robots, technology

Technology is going to transform healthcare! On this week’s blog, we are expressing the news and our perspective, and it has generally been focused on the cross-roads and technology. Recently, we have been adding another dimension; generational economics and healthcare. I love to read about our industry, and with more than 10 patents issued, and another 20 pending, technology and innovation drive me. A friend of mine once called me a futurist, and to this day I wonder if that was a good thing, or a bad thing? We have […]
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21Jan, 2016

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The Next Digital Revolution; Life, Health and Jobs

By: Charity Darby | Tags: computers, digital, EHR, EMR, global economics, healthcare, medications, records, technology

Once again, I find myself sliding some topics I selected to discuss to the back burner. The daily headlines are so amazing to an innovation and technology addict, such as myself. This past week, a friend of mine sent me a link to a website, and the title just hit me and gave me a “Back to the Future” moment. The site was SingularityHub.com and the title was “Digital Diagnosis: Intelligent Machines Do a Better Job than Humans.” It was not a question, but a statement. They had me hooked. […]
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7Oct, 2015

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The Age of Data

By: Charity Darby | Tags: data, Doctors, drug-to-drug interaction, EHR, EMR, Goldman Sachs, Google, healthcare, hospitals, ICD-10, ICD-9, Numbers, Oscar, platform, Space

I recently read, with great joy, an article in the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) that noted Google Capital, the internet company’s growth-equity fund, had “invested $32.5 million in Oscar Health Insurance Corporation”, a start-up in the healthcare insurance industry. There are a couple of interesting things about this article. First, this “start-up” is valued at $1.5 billion (USD) and second, according to the article,“Oscar amassed a war chest of more than $350 million in its bid to use data and technology to make the insurance business work more like an […]
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30Sep, 2015

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Healthcare Transparency

By: Charity Darby | Tags: allowed charges, billed charges, EHR, EMR, Florida, Governor, healthcare transparency

This week Florida Governor Rick Scott made headlines on the issue of healthcare transparency. The article that triggered this blog was published by “The News Service of Florida” and included an audio report . The issue of price transparency in healthcare has been a particular obsession of mine since the early 1990s, as I parachuted into healthcare operations. Imagine an engineer and commercial contractor having to deal with the effective collection rate for medical services with a net ranging in the 33 percentile of billed charges. It took a while […]
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21Sep, 2015

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The future of patient engagement, and the end of EHR as we know it… by 2025.

By: Charity Darby | Tags: CMS, EHR, EMR, HHS, Interconnect, MU-2, ONC, platform

Recently we have read a multitude of papers on the failure of providers to connect with consumers, as they use their electronic healthcare records (EHR). There are reasons this is important. First, the quality of medical care, as we have discussed on these pages, doesn’t equate to more care is better care. Second, patients are demanding it. In an era when we have cars that drive themselves, the ability to open your car, turn on your engine and heat it with a remote, check if your front door is locked, […]
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3Sep, 2015

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One Implementation, Many Similar Stories

By: Charity Darby | Tags: Chief Information Officer, EHR, EMR, Health Information System, HIT, implementation, penalties

Over the last few weeks we have read media reports that New York City’s Health and Hospitals Corporation, with about $5 billion (USD) in revenues and with over 30,000 employees, covering 11 hospitals, is having problems implementing a new health information system. I take zero pleasure in reporting this as I have been there on a more micro scale, and I expect to be there again. This “epic” issue is of note. Some of the facts, as I think I have them, are that this is a huge project. We […]
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28Aug, 2015

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New Study Casts Serious Doubts on Efforts to Accelerate EHR Adoption

By: Charity Darby | Tags: ACA, EHR, EMR, HITECH ACT, Medicare and Medicaid

For years, and under two different Presidents, the U.S. government has been pushing, enticing and inducing the medical community to adopt Electronic Health Records (EHR). One of the unanswered questions from a U.S. Government perspective is, “What difference does it make?” A recent report from a research collaborative study from faculty at University of Alabama – Birmingham, Indiana University and Johns Hopkins University asks the dark question; “has it all been worth it?” The private report indicates that it is very possible that “the electronic health records meaningful use program […]
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