Today, I visited a mid-sized suburban hospital on some routine business. Before leaving, I stopped and had lunch at the cafeteria, then tossed the trash into...
Archive - February 2012
The news recently came out that Hello Health has raised $10 million in funding. For those that aren’t familiar with Hello Health, here’s a pretty...
This morning, Hello Health, a Patient Management Platform developed to improve communication between patients and physicians, announced an additional $10M in...
I haven’t heard a single person say that the ACO (Accountable Care Organization) model is not here to stay. In fact, everyone that I’ve talked to...
I came across a recent article about an initiative between the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) and the US Dept. of Labor to “train students...
My new and awesome employer, Impact Advisors, asked everyone from our team who attended HIMSS this year to write up a Top Ten Observations list to share with...
Healthcare Practices Can Now Achieve Meaningful Use with Pen and Paper Nashville, TN (February 27, 2012) — Shareable Ink®, an enterprise cloud computing...
It’s time again for the next entry in our series of EHR videos called: 5 Questions with EHR Vendor executives at HIMSS 2012. In this video I ask the 5...
When I first started writing this blog about six years ago, I named it EMR and HIPAA. I was working to implement an EMR at that time (this was well before EHR...
In theory, one might think that a delay in the deadline for implementing ICD-10 coding would be a relief for providers. After all, the shift from ICD-9 to ICD...