In a long-awaited move, CMS has announced a five-year demonstration project that will reward physicians for using EHRs to improve the quality of care. The pilot will involve up to 1,200 small and medium-sized practices-mostly primary care-in 12 markets that have yet to be chosen.
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Partners Health Care, a large health care system in the Boston area, is asking all of the primary-care physicians in its contracting network to implement or sign a contract for an electronic health record by Jan. 1, 2008. Those doctors who don’t get an EHR will be expelled from the network, which negotiates with local managed-care plans. The same requirement will be applied to the bulk of Partners’ specialists on Jan. 1, 2009. continues…
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Marissa Mayer, Google’s vice president of Search Products & User Experience, told Internet industry leaders at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco that the company was still interested in search-based health care information services.
[Google] is also looking to figure out how to create transportable personal health records that give users “a lot of control” over who can see such sensitive documents.
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A study released today by the eHealth Vulnerability Reporting Program concludes that the level of security built into commercial EHR systems is insufficient, leaving these systems “vulnerable to exploitation given existing industry development and disclosure practices.” continues…
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InformationWeek has a roundup on how some hospitals are using voice recognition software to ease the use of EHR systems and cut the cost of medical transcription services. continues…
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It’s taken hospitals a while, but many of them are finally taking advantage of the relaxed Stark rules to subsidize EHR purchases by non-employed physicians on their staffs. According to Glen Tullman, CEO of Allscripts, about a third of U.S. hospitals are exploring or using this new opportunity. His company alone, he says, is “actively working with dozens of hospital clients across the country on Stark-related initiatives.” Most of this activity, he adds, has occurred within the past six months. continues…
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There has been a rash of supposedly “free” EHRs lately. For example, software derived from the publicly available VA VistA EHR may be free, but support costs as much as many commercial programs do on a monthly basis. Vendors of other free programs require physicians to tolerate product advertisements (Practice Fusion) or information from drug companies (Amplus).
Now a small web-based EHR vendor named RemedyMD has come up with a new way to play this game. continues…
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E-MDs’ CCHIT-certified EHR, one of the more popular programs on the market, costs about $8,000 per doctor. While that’s considerably less than the price of some comparable EHRs, it’s still beyond the reach of many small practices, when combined with the cost of hardware, implementation and support. So e-MDs plans to release a “lite” version of its EHR early next year. This product will allow physicians to get into the game at a lower cost and upgrade to the full EHR later if they want. continues…
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EastBayRI.com tells the story of Road Island’s Newport Hospital, which began it’s transition to digital patient records 15 years ago and is still working at it.
The story paints a realistic, balanced picture of how complex moving from a paper-based system to a electronic system can be. But the overall message is that this transition is worth it for health care workers and patients. continues…
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More than 80 EHR programs lay claim to a seal of approval that’s supposed to make you more confident about buying the product. But wait — the requirements for earning this honor hail from 2006. In 2007, they’ve gotten more rigorous. Seven programs so far have passed the latest test. continues…
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