Douglas Blair, senior director of physician information systems at Mount Carmel Health System in central Ohio, describes its pre-upgrade practice management software as “essentially broken for us. My understanding is that it has code in it that’s over 30 years old.” More »
Remember the old TV show “Wide World of Sports” from the 1970s and ’80s? Who could forget that opening sequence — the one with that poor skier wiping out horrifically while Jim McKay, the legendary sports journalist, tells us solemnly that producers had been “spanning the globe” to bring you “the... More »
About 10 percent of the privacy violations tracked by consumer advocacy organization privacyrights.org in 2005 occurred in healthcare organizations. That figure jumped to 16 percent in 2006, and should be up another 5 percent to 6 percent this year if trends continue. More »
Nemishh Mehta and his wife Shilpa, both primary-care physicians, had long dreamed of working together in their own practice. The Bear, Del., residents had been working successfully in separate practices, but they were left cold at those offices by what they perceived as an impersonal style of... More »
Voice recognition software has gotten more sophisticated and easier to use. Still, is it good enough yet to be worth the time and money it will cost you to use it? More »
Think of the certification commission as more comparable to the Underwriters Laboratory, which sets pass/fail standards, than to the Consumers’ Union system of rating products. More »
Does having an EMR really help you? Are patients more likely to get the tests they need, timely diagnoses, and proper treatments? Do you code more accurately now that your EMR is a part of your daily work flow? Does this result in higher reimbursements? More »
Voice recognition software has gotten more sophisticated and easier to use. Still, is it good enough yet to be worth the time and money it will cost you to use it? More »
