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Core Principles for Application Decommissioning and Data Archiving

Healthcare IT Today

While we’ve been writing about EMR data archiving since back in 2009 and then again in 2013 and 2014 to name a few, the topic has never been more important than it is today. With many healthcare organizations literally supporting 100s and even 1000s of health IT software, how you handle legacy systems including data […].

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Stakeholder Buy-In For Your Technology Deployment

Ortholive

The passage of the Healthcare Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (HITECH) of 2009 was a Congressional mandate requiring healthcare providers to adopt electronic medical records (EMR) technology. $27

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Regulators Need to Pay More Attention to Long-term and Nursing Care

Healthcare IT Today

But these facilities are afterthoughts in our health care system, and were excluded in particular from the huge digitization of health care triggered in the United States by the 2009 HITECH act and 2010 Affordable Care Act.

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EHR-Based CPOE Tools Miss Many Dangerous Medication Interactions

Healthcare IT Today

To conduct the study, researchers analyzed 8,657 observations using the National Quality Forum Health IT Safety Measure, a CPOE and EHR safety test administered by the Leapfrog Group between 2009 and 2018. The tool uses […].

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The Imperative to Develop the Participatory Patient

Society for Participatory Medicine

The Society for Participatory Medicine was founded in 2009 to transform the culture of care. SPM co-founder and former board member e-Patient Dave wrote years ago that it boils down to this: US healthcare is too big to let itself shrink (in 2009!) Remote patient monitoring can bring data previously unavailable to the EMR.

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Moving to eClinicalWorks’ Cloud EHR Helped Suncoast Community Health Centers Save Money and Reduce Frustration

Healthcare IT Today

Since SCHC had been using eClinicalWorks since 2009, they had a lot of data that had to be migrated. Martinbor crunched the numbers and moving to the cloud would save SCHC from having to hire additional IT staff to maintain server infrastructure. The eClinicalWorks technical team worked closely with SCHC to make that migration seamless.

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How Telehealth & Remote Care Enable Faster, More Efficient Virtual Clinical Trials

care innovations

Larger companies may be able to more readily take on this financial risk, but the process of a clinical trial is still likely to take years , with no certain outcomes (a 2009 National Academy of Sciences study found that 75 percent of drug research costs are sunk in products that fail to move out of the clinical trial phase).