Docnotes

JANUARY 27, 2020

Today, The Department of Justice issued an announcement that was “the first ever criminal action against an EHR vendor.” In 2008 I was the CMIO at Allscripts. I wondered how we could prevent pharmaceutical companies from tempting EHR companies to do such things. ” Criminal action.

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Chilmark Research

MARCH 6, 2014

EHRs Look Inward. EHR vendors are at last developing moderate to advanced functionality with their portals (refills, secure communication, education, scheduling), with improved UX/UI that is starting to conform to consumer tech standards. HIEs Look Backward.

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Redox

APRIL 29, 2019

We’ll explore the recent history of health IT and then look at current forces that make today very different from 2008 when EHR adoption kicked into overdrive and set us down the path we find ourselves today. It’s been well documented that clinicians, particularly physicians, are feeling the pain of transitioning to EHRs.

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HIStalk Weekender

JUNE 22, 2018

Can you imagine if you’d been on an EHR for 70+ years and have to now rattle off 100 different medications that you’re not taking since you were born? The issue is that the “not taking” doesn’t remain and I have to say I’m not taking the med every at every visit. Still think it’s a good design decision and patient to blame? (

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HIStalk Weekender

JULY 6, 2018

Tennessee prescribers ordered 104 million tablets of OxyContin from 2008 to 2017, the majority of them for high doses. Readers Write: EHRs Have Not Reduced Paper Usage Yet. Jayne 7/2/18. Readers Write: The Opioid Crisis: Fix the Process, Fix the Problem. Readers Write: Why It’s Time to Make Clinical Documentation Clinically Valuable.

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

MARCH 3, 2017

They could all have been created at the same time, from the same underlying EHR data, simply for the purpose of satisfying the largest range of clients. text/x-hl7-text+xml urn:hl7-org:sdwg:ccda-structuredBody:1.1 is not really special, but it happens to be the thing that has just released and C-CDA 1.1 are laying around.

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Lloyd Price

OCTOBER 16, 2018

Google started a health-records initiative in 2008, but shut it down by 2011, citing poor adoption. Primary Care In February, Apple launched a new subsidiary company tasked with providing healthcare clinics to Apple employees: AC Wellness. But how easy will it actually be? Several of them have made efforts in the past and failed.

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HIStalk Weekender

MAY 18, 2018

The VA signs a 10-year, $10 billion contract with Cerner for its new EHR. He reported in a 2008 interview that the recession “doesn’t affect me at all,” having just purchased a new Bentley for himself and a BMW for his girlfriend even as he was spending $20 million to build a tiger refuge in Texas. Weekly News Recap.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 18, 2021

The last computers purchased across the agency were acquired in 2008. Before shifting gears to telemedicine, the technology infrastructure of Southwest Mississippi Mental Health Complex in McComb, Mississippi, was very old and extremely limited. THE PROBLEM.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

History of EPCS Kyle Zebley, head of public policy American Telemedicine Association (ATA) , says that Congress called on the DEA to implement a policy for a special controlled substance registration process in 2008. This requirement languished for the past 15 years, probably because the DEA had a multitude of competing priorities.

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HIStalk Interviews

JUNE 4, 2018

Expanse for us represents the development over several years of an EHR that we designed for the post-Meaningful Use era. I would put it in the context of 2007 and 2008, when a brand new user experience was introduced to the world by Apple. There are major established players in the EHR space. Very fair comments on all fronts.

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Lloyd Price

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

TETHERED PERSONAL HEALTH RECORDS VERSUS PATIENT PORTALS A tethered PHR, as defined by the ONC, is an online interface tied to an EHR with which patients may view and sometimes interact with their health data. Google launched its standalone PHR, Google Health, back in 2008 as health IT began to gain traction through government incentives.

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HIStalk Weekender

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

VA Secretary Robert Wilkie tells the Senate VA Committee that he and representatives at the DoD are working to create a “single point of authority” for their respective EHR projects with Cerner. Weekly News Recap. Best Reader Comments. You’re pointing out a failure of medicine to follow evidence. Lafsky, MD ). Woodstock Generation ).

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Health Populi

JANUARY 24, 2019

Now that EHRs are well-adopted in physicians’ practices and hospitals, patient data have gone digital, and can be aggregated and mined for better diagnosis, treatment, and intelligent decision making. To succeed in the business of health information technology (HIT), a company has to be very clear on the problems it’s trying to address.

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mHealth Insight

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

Back in 2008 at 3GDoctor we started offering the ability for Patients to use their mobiles to provide their own history to Doctors prior to a documented video consult: [link]. “Integration of Sensor, Smartphone, and Electronic Health Record (EHR) Data for Patients and Clinicians. “Digital Therapeutics and Diagnostics.

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