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Hospital EMR Adoption and how Epic, Cerner, MEDITECH and Athenahealth are competing for the small hospital space
EMR Adoption - Acute Care Hospitals My last article covered EMR adoption in the Ambulatory space. This is a review of EMR adoption in Acute Care Hospitals and the prominent vendors of EMRs in the hospital market. According to ONC Health Information Technology, as of...
The Current State of EMR Adoption in the Ambulatory Space
It is difficult to find consistent percentages when researching physician EHR adoption rates. Many EHR vendors have their own statistics and they vary by study. According to Office of National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, since 2008, office-based...
Patient Data Access – Let’s make this better. We have the tools.
As we age and make more visits to doctors, many of my peers (and myself) have taken charge of gathering our health information. We have made it a standard practice to always request copies of test results- blood, colonoscopy, mammograms. However, when trying to access...
Doctor Wait Times – Why is it not getting any better after EHRs?
A few weeks ago I posted an article about physician burnout. In that article, eighty percent of the physicians surveyed said they were overextended and didn’t have time to see additional patients. You may recall that 21% of their time is spent on non-clinical...
Telemedicine – What exactly is it and why is it not fully utilized?
In much of the healthcare industry, the terms “telehealth” and “telemedicine” are used interchangeably. However, after much reading, I discovered that telehealth is a broad term that includes health services using telecommunications technology and telemedicine refers...
Workday – The new Enterprise Human Resource and Finance System?
Workday, Inc. is an on‑demand (cloud-based) financial management and human capital management software vendor. It was founded in 2005 by David Duffield, (founder and former CEO of ERP vendor PeopleSoft) and former PeopleSoft chief strategist Aneel Bhusri following...