By Jim Tate – My recent post (The Open Secret of Health Information Technology – The Emperor Has No Clothes) lamented the fact that it is often extremely difficult to pry critical Clinical Quality files (QRDA-I and QRDA-III) out of an EHR. Well, it is time to name names, or at least one name.
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By Jim Tate – Who knows when the tree will fall, the bridge will fail, or the levee will break? The lawsuit against eClinicalWorks had been winding its way through the judicial system for two years. Suddenly an agreement was announced, and it is sending shock waves throughout the EMR industry.
By Jim Tate – You can tell a lot about a person by asking them what their favorite fairy tale was when they were a child. Was it The Frog Prince, Little Red Riding Hood, or maybe Sleeping Beauty? For me it was The Emperor’s New Clothes.
By Jim Tate – It is not often we are given the opportunity to make a clear-cut decision. If you are anything like me, you chew on the bone of indecision until there is nothing left but the marrow. I make lists of the pros and cons.
By Jim Tate – We have all heard them, the urban legends. Giant alligators in the sewers of New York City. The woman who put her poodle in the microwave to dry it off after a bath. And my personal favorite, the Vanishing Hitchhiker.
By Jim Tate – I’ve been holding off writing this post for a few months. Usually I am writing about dry topics like regulatory compliance and governmental policy. But something else has been on my mind.
Attending HIMSS next week? These are companies with announcements. Stop by these booths to see what’s new and how it can help your practice or hospital.
By Judah Thornewill, Bob Esterhay MD, Eric C. Schneider MD, Aneesh Chopra & William Yasnoff – While more and more doctors’ offices, hospitals, and other providers are using EHRs, patients rarely have access to their digital health data.
By Jim Tate – Call it “bad luck”. Call it the “X factor”. Call it whatever you want. The purchase and implementation of health IT continues to exist in a domain that reminds me of the Wild West. Years ago, I experienced this dark corner from both sides of the equation.