EHR & The Art, Science and Business of Medicine
February 24th, 2010 admin
By MARGALIT GUR-ARIE “The practice of medicine is an art, not a trade; a calling, not a business…” – William Osler Dr. Osler was a great physician and a great man. However, in America today medicine may be a calling…
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By MARGALIT GUR ARIE The regulators have completed their work. CMS has defined how you should use technology in your practice or hospital (Meaningful Use) and technical requirements for EHRs have been finalized. CMS and ONC have removed all ambiguity…
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A three-physician family medicine practice in Lexington, Va., recently found itself with roughly $40,000 in unpaid Medicare claims — practice revenue that was in limbo because of a cascade of blunders in Medicare’s physician enrollment process. Brenda Harlow, office manager for Lexington Family Practice since 1981 and, thus, no newcomer...
By MARGALIT GUR-ARIE Back in the times when EHRs were just EMRs, they had a very simple and humble mission. The software was supposed to help providers of health care services better manage their business. EMRs were supposed to help…
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Sam Ko’s Emergency Medicine Blog: Ten Emergency Medicine Websites I Love and Will Marry . I am always please to be singled out, and am humbled to be mentioned with the other 9 excellent blogs in this category. But, I’m already married. So, there’s that. Related posts: Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted): Finnish...
By MARGALIT GUR-ARIE Last week, yet another alarming Computerized Physician Order Entry (CPOE) study made headlines. According to Healthcare IT News, The Leapfrog Group, a staunch advocate of CPOE, is now “sounding the alarm on untested CPOE” as their new…
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By MARGALIT GUR-ARIE All the laws have been passed and all the final rulings have been published. In the spirit of the times, you went out and got yourself an EHR. You did your due diligence and sat through many…
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Prompted by a series of tweets and buzzes pertaining to the knowledge base of Emergency Medicine bloggers we felt it was time to overhaul our ‘BlogRoll‘ and create a separate table for the Emergency bloggers, their twitter handles and RSS feeds. via Emergency Medicine Bloggers | Life in the Fast Lane . Nice list! If you find an omission, please...
Emergency Medicine News : February 2010 – Volume 32 – Issue 2 – p 5, 24, 25, 26 Residents training in large urban centers typically see more than 200 patients a day. They have access to all subspecialty care, typically available 24 hours a day. Residents have around-the-clock access to angioplasty, interventional radiology, hand...
By MARGALIT GUR-ARIE No, you didn’t miss anything, there is no Government EHR. But should there be one? And if so, what should it look like? The argument in favor of a Government EHR goes something like this: If we…
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Emergency Medicine Excellence Award™ HealthGrades Identifies Hospitals Among the Top 5% for Emergency Medicine HealthGrades is proud to announce that the first annual analysis of hospital emergency medicine programs found that the best-performing hospitals consistently outperformed all other hospitals for all eleven cohorts studied. via Emergency...
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theconnieshow (Connie A) : @CariAz_13 I missed ehr the first hour she was gone..sigh.. and she tweeted feels weird leaving without @theconnieshow :) my baby so sweet.. Updated : 2010-09-08T01:13:08Z | Reply | View Tweet |
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Brenda_Nevr (Nevr(:) : Ughhh all i want is f'EHR yhu too txt mehh e'hr call mehh!!!.. Updated : 2010-09-08T01:00:02Z | Reply | View Tweet |
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KayIsTheHeat (Kaydean 'Kay Kay') : u cant compare ehr 2 artistes who actually r established so sit!!!!.. Updated : 2010-09-08T00:58:16Z | Reply | View Tweet |
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LovelyGiannaV (Gianna Volturi) : @Ninja_AlecV Relationship trouble... and she needs some help with ehr daughter. I -need- to leave, but I can't... Updated : 2010-09-08T00:57:15Z | Reply | View Tweet |
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