Q: Physicians are afraid of EMR (Electronic Medical Record) project failure, so why should their practice go through the headache of integrating EMR now?
A: Murphy’s law states that if anything can go wrong, it will, and EMR integration is no stranger to this rule. However, project failure is certainly avoidable if the practice takes the [...]

Q: Most physicians don’t understand the technology world, so how do physicians who view technology as something that is foreign to them even begin to understand which EMR/HIT vendor to choose?
A: It is important to choose an EMR/HIT vendor that caters to the needs of their practice, as different vendors offer slightly different things. It’s [...]

Q:How does my clinical practice get the best price for EMR?
A:When you receive a proposal for new EMR, be sure to look at license fees, service fees, interface fees, and all other aspects of the proposal. Although the cost for EMR may appear competitive, there are often hidden costs in these sections. Most vendors have [...]

Our government continues to march toward more modifying how HIPAA addresses the electronic transactions by which payors and providers conduct financial business. On November 7, 2009 the house passed a bill that should help make the transaction sets more uniform.
The key word – uniform! Isn’t that what the original intent of the transactions and [...]

I read an article in Healthcare Financial News dated October 26, 2009 titled “Americans waste up to $850 billion a year in healthcare”. According to his study the biggest causes of waste are:
* $250-$325 billion in unnecessary care defined as over use of antibiotics and diagnostic lab tests to protect against malpractice exposure.
* [...]

So last week at the Health2.0 Conference in San Francisco, Google announces they are adding telehealth to the services provided via the Google Health personal health record (PHR). Great stuff if people are actually using a PHR. I know what they are, and I’m not. I don’t see the point yet. None of my providers [...]

How does my clinical practice get the best price for EMR? When you receive a proposal for new EMR, be sure to look at license fees, service fees, interface fees, and all other aspects of the proposal. Although the cost for EMR may appear competitive, there are often hidden costs in these sections. Most vendors [...]

Why should our medical practice invest in electronic medical records (EMR) now? The new stimulus package will give $44,000 over a 5 year period to each physician that adopts EMR technology and abides by the governments “meaningful use” doctrine. The exact definition of meaningful use was made available for all to read and understand [...]

I keep hearing “since physicians don’t like change and are not often interested in changing the way they practice, why should they purchase electronic medical records (EMR) for their group practice?” I feel that physicians interested in EMR for their practice should not view this as an all or nothing shift in the way [...]

Ready to get in line with your hand out for a piece of the ARRA funding President Obama and the US Congress promised hospitals and physicians? Think again! This isn’t the “handout” many healthcare providers thought it was going to be. HITECH is designed to encourage hospitals and physicians to get on board with an [...]