ACOs and EHRs
Accountable Care Organizations are becoming the new Black. There are some of us who recognize how befitting that metaphor is given that healthcare models seem to have a cyclical nature to them. Mostly they cycle between physicians heading out to be independent from healthcare organizations and then coming back under the umbrella once again. Has … Continue reading
Engaging The Patient With Your EHR (And Why MEDITECH Can’t Help You)
The most underutilized resource in all of healthcare is the patient. For those unfamiliar, e-Patient Dave (Dave deBronkart) is a fairly well known blogger and activist who uses his personal experience to advance the proliferation of healthcare data into the hands of patients. No, this isn’t meaning through Patient Portals or PHRs. The idea is … Continue reading
The Need to Redesign Medical Information
We have communication problems in the medical world. No, not just the lack of communication happening between healthcare providers that some mistakenly think the newly christened “EHRs” are going to fix. More importantly, the disconnect lies between the data and those reading it. Providers sift through a patient’s chart gathering data to develop a mental … Continue reading
ONC Certified HIT Product List Is Up!
ONC has set up a website that will list all of the certified HIT products for HITECH reimbursement. It is aptly called the Certified HIT Product List with the sexy acronym of CHPL. I think we should pronounce this: “Chip-uhl.” As of this morning, there are a total of 4 products on here and I’ve … Continue reading
Why I download MEDITECH/LSS NPR Reports.
“I’m sorry, Dave. I’m afraid I can’t do that.” Have you ever tried to write an NPR report? Have you ever scoured a data definition only to come up with half of the information you need? Or maybe you’ve painstakingly created the perfect NPR report, let it run for an hour and find to your … Continue reading
Visualizing Diagnoses in a Patient Population
Data can have a certain beauty to it. I pulled the current active diagnoses of 1,926 patients from one of my former clients in WV (with permission of course) on March 20, 2010. After first creating a similarity matrix from the data, I used Multidimensional Scaling to generate plot points of each diagnosis. Therefore, the … Continue reading
EMR Reporting Suggestions
I have repeatedly stated in my prior posts and my clients generally get tired of me stating that EMRs are only implemented in order to make data in a healthcare setting transparent. However, generally when you ask a Practice Manager or even a CEO what data they would like to see out of the system … Continue reading
MEDITECH/LSS MPM Reporting and ARRA Requirements
The ease of which any healthcare organization will meet “Meaningful Use” requirements will depend on what data they have captured and how easily they can report on it. As long as you have a “certified” system in place that captures the required data and have a way to analyze that data and report on it … Continue reading
Aaron Berdofe, MHI - Health Informatics 