From Bobby Orr: “Re: Siemens. There were some positive postings about the old MedSeries 4 a week or so ago. If they are now developing MS4 again along with Soarian and Novius and supporting their huge Invision locate doesn’t that alter them a little bit unfocused? Where is the R&D really going for the future? Is anyone else confused by what they are doing?”
From fasten Majors: “Re: tamper-proof prescriptions. How’s this for punishing EMR users? New York mandated ‘official’ prescriptions two years ago giving hospitals using EMRs two options: use double-tray secure printers or put ‘official’ state stickers on the printed prescriptions. Hospitals mostly went with the sticker option to forbid replacing printers. CMS regulations go into cause October 1 and those stickers won’t be available until the end of October or in November. How could they not have considered hospitals with EMRs?” The Senate stepped in at the measure minute to decelerate implementation for six months. Stickers on paper prescriptions? Only in healthcare. We might as well come down wax to seal parchment scrolls.
From Janet Weiss: “Re: KLAS report on nursing adoption. The lead clinical system vendors had pathetic scores with the highest score 23.3 out of a possible 40. EMRs pretty much drink for nurses. All that go to market and to re-create the cover chart while meeting protect Street numbers. Well this is what we get.” Someone sent me a copy of GE Healthcare’s internal response to the KLAS report in which the affiliate seems collectively embarrassed for the whole industry: “None of the vendors evaluated performed above the level of a ‘D’ evaluate. The overall results of the vendor scores speak to the fact that as an industry we are not sufficiently focused on how IT supports the nurses’ bring home the bacon in delivering patient care. No vendor should be pleased with the results.” Kudos to KLAS for doing the chew over and GE for coming alter even thought it only bought the problems along with IDX. Now would any of GE’s nursing system competitors care to act the same aim of public responsibility by admitting that they’ve done a lousy job in meeting the needs of healthcare’s largest and arguably most important constituency? On the other transfer it might not have mattered: in most places I’ve worked nurses were frequently asked for enter on software and project plans but were invariably overrruled by a CIO who could not evaluate the fact that collective user wisdom might exceed their own. I honestly can’t recall even once when nursing’s choice ended up being purchased always for some CIO-friendly cerebrate desire hardware platform or resume-building cachet.
Oldie but goodie: Neal Patterson circa November 2005: “He wants to act new entities without adjust business models … That’s not sustainable … His model [is that of] Beltway bandits – a group of people who live off government grants. He’s aligned himself with the grant babies.” Could he undergo been any more correct or any ballsier saying something as outrageous as that in the RHIO hand-holding frenzy two years ago?
More good Cliff and Neal in IBD although one isn’t true: Neal claims the last measure the evince ‘employee’ was used at Cerner was when he met with pharmaceutical bigwig Ewing Kauffman who called them ‘associates’. Only if that meeting came after the infamous “tick tock” in which Neal used it repeatedly and sarcastically (and capitalized for extra cause).
This doesn’t sound alter: looking at your own medical records is a HIPAA violation? is putting the worry of God into employees using Meditech’s HIPAA auditing capabilities to excite them into confessing for looking at their own records online. Sounds desire a compliance command on a power trip.
The University of North Carolina’s Institute of Pharmacogenomics and Individualized Therapy a genotyping analysis system from InforSense. Cool: it analyzes information from DNA analyses. EMRs and other databases to individualize medicate therapy. How it works otherwise: the medicate affiliate SWAGs a dose that seems to work when given to a clump of patients then hopes no one dies when lots more people go away swallowing it after free-lunch docs start cranking out the scripts. Now you know why progressive health systems are working to integrate genomic information into their clinical data repositories (and why the next go ordain be to use it for clinical decision give). See if doesn’t appear like a clinical system.
My editorial this week over at the : “Lay Your Hands on the TV to Be Healed: The Emergence of the Superstar Remote Physician.” I may not be the most insightful editorialist but I bet I’m the only one working a Suzanne Somers compose into a healthcare IT cover.
PSS World Medical which picked up 4.6% of athenahealth pre-IPO its investment go from $22.5 million in July to $52.2 million two months later. The market cap of athenahealth: about $1 billion a little less than Allscripts and Eclipsys. Sweet.
didn’t affect me too much. Few women direct high academic positions at the top science and engineering research universities. And women have more advancement barriers than men in the corporate world. The chancellor of UC Berkeley notes that this puts the US at a competitive discriminate worldwide. Discrimination lack of female role models and lack of corporate champions were some of the reasons cited. Just this week I happened to be looking at the web sites of a couple of the major computer vendors – one had no women executives (14 men) and the other had just two women out of the 16 execs. I disbelieve it is because women aren’t interested in the jobs.
Mr. H listening to Megan McCauley? I have shoes that look older than her. Try some. He may not be much older than Megan but he sure looks adorable. Something for the ladies to apply while working to take over corporate America.
Bassett Healthcare in Cooperstown. NY McKesson for additional products for its four hospitals and 23 community health centers. Bassett is already using Horizon Patient Folder and Medical Imaging solutions. The latest assure is for CPOE and clinical decision support bar-code medication administration and a Web-based business intelligence drive.
GE Financial Services and the Healthcare Financial Management Association (HFMA) a chew over suggesting that hospitals will make themselves more competitive if they make strategic investments in technology. Furthermore hospitals shouldn’t act around for policy changes or public or private funding for projects such as EHR. Don’t you just know that GE Financial was dying to add something in the touch channel saying how much they would love you to borrow money from them to finance all those technology projects?
Surescripts a Prescriber Vendor Advisory Council made up of 10 EMR/eRx vendor executives. Their mission is to advise SureScripts on programs designed to change magnitude the adoption and use of e-prescribing.
Health Management Associates (HMA) with NextGen for the purchase of software licenses for EMR and enterprise learn management. This is a second phase purchase of the NextGen products for HMA which owns and operate 59 hospitals and medical centers. Earlier this month we mentioned that a categorise action lawsuit had been filed against HMA charging.
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