The whining is getting old. Per Surescripts, in 2012, the latest year for which statistics are available, about 69 percent of physicians nationwide used e-prescribing technology in one way or an...
https://meaningfulhitnews.com/2014/04/24/docs-stop-whining-start-e-prescribing/
Two stories that have hit in the last 48 hours illustrate how the status quo in EHRs is being upset. First off, as John Lynn broke late Tuesday night—first as a rumor and then as a confirmed f...
https://meaningfulhitnews.com/2014/01/30/cchit-klas-might-signal-new-era-in-ehrs/
As you undoubtedly know by now, I am now officially all about patient safety. (Thanks, by the way, for all the support in the wake of my father’s untimely death.) That’s why I was so upset to...
https://meaningfulhitnews.com/2012/05/20/faxing-should-be-malpractice/
While everyone’s scrambling to comply with ANSI X12 5010 standards for HIPAA transactions by Jan. 1—or whenever CMS gets around to enforcing them—there’s another piece of the upgrade that...
As you may have already heard, Surescripts today gave its annual update of progress in e-prescribing. About one-third of office-based clinicians now write at least some prescriptions electronical...
https://meaningfulhitnews.com/2010/09/21/blumenthal-talks-e-prescribing/
Last month, I wrote a rather scathing piece on the BNET Healthcare blog about the American Medical Association‘s annual House of Delegates meeting. I wrote another one for FierceEMR. Admittedly...
https://meaningfulhitnews.com/2009/07/06/ama-and-emrs-continued/
I recently had a long feature story published in MDNG about e-prescribing. It’s pretty basic, but fairly comprehensive. Check it out here. I’m not sure what happened with the paragraph brea...
https://meaningfulhitnews.com/2009/03/04/more-on-e-prescribing/
There’s a special advertising pull-out section on healthcare IT running in Friday’s print edition of the Washington Post. How do I know this? Because I wrote the majority of it. I also helped...
https://meaningfulhitnews.com/2008/12/16/hit-advertising-section-in-fridays/
I love the annual Association of Medical Directors of Information Systems (AMDIS) Physician-Computer Connection. It’s a chance to hear some of the smartest and most accomplished people in healt...
https://meaningfulhitnews.com/2008/07/22/podcast-dr-robert-kolodner-on-national/
Finally Congress has paid more than lip service to health IT. Late yesterday afternoon, the Senate approved the Medicare Improvements for Patients and Providers Act of 2008, halting the planned 1...
https://meaningfulhitnews.com/2008/07/10/congress-includes-erx-in-medicare-bill/