Doctors, Lay Down Your Egos
If you’ve been paying attention to the healthcare news lately you might have heard that the genetics testing company 23andme has put a halt to their testing at the request of the FDA. The official reasoning? The FDA feels they “still do not have any assurance that the firm has analytically or clinically validated the … Continue reading
Forget ICD-10. ICD-11 Is Where It’s At
The ICD-9 to ICD-10 conversion is already causing a large number of sharply stabbing tension headaches (307.81 or G44.209) throughout the American healthcare landscape and we’ve barely begun to get started with it. If the delays continue, we may just stay in this state of beginning and never actually get to ending for all of … Continue reading
EHRs: A Habit of Quality Organizations?
If there were awards given out on the amount of delays and procrastination one has when finishing their final master’s project, I think I should get one. I’m not saying I was the best at it, but at least put me in the top 5%. Anyway, over the course of the past 9 months I … Continue reading
The Genetics and Intellectual Property Battle Rages On
Today marks another moment in the debate between burgeoning genetics companies trying to establish themselves in a growing industry and the American public, who is really just beginning to understand what genetics actually is. It wasn’t too long ago (2000) that the first genome had actually been mapped by J. Craig Venter’s team at Applera … Continue reading
EHRs and the FDA
File this under your definition of irony: an iPhone app that turns your phone into a breathalizer with the addition of a small accessory can’t get on the market without FDA approval while the software that medical professionals rely on everyday to check interactions between medications and communicate patient medical information barely has to make … Continue reading
Meaningful Use Stage 2 Final Rule Word Cloud
If you remember, back in the day I created a word cloud of the proposed Meaningful Use Stage 1 rule. The obvious implications of that visualization were that the government really wanted to dangle lots of money in front of healthcare organizations in order to use EHRs. Yet, despite initially touting the benefits to the … Continue reading
Achieving Meaningful Use With LSS and MEDITECH
A long while back I reported about how to potentially get all of the Meaningful Use objectives out of LSS before Stage 1 was final and before LSS had even taken its first stab at helping their customers out. Now that the criteria is set for Stage 1 and Stage 2, and LSS has come up with … Continue reading
Help The Electronic Health Records. They Are Being Abused!
At this point I think I may revert back to the old-fashioned term of Electronic MEDICAL Records because suddenly they’ve gone from saviors of the healthcare industry to tools of the money-grubbing doctors…at least according to some. That and we’ve realized that they help the medical community more than they improve the health of people. … Continue reading
Meaningful Use Attestations Show the Rich Get Richer
Originally posted on HISTalk Practice. Meaningful Use charts and graphs are a dime a dozen these days and as much as I’d like to add another bar or delicious pie chart to the mix, I just can’t bring myself to do it. I have no reservations about creating maps from the data though! For the … Continue reading
3 Models For Exchanging Healthcare Data Post-EHR Craze
Reposted from HISTalk Practice. Let’s assume for a moment that the current craze surrounding EHRs is completely effective and every physician in America is meaningfully utilizing one in the near future (hurray for blind optimism!). There are two purposes for doing this, despite the numerous reasons that have been thrown out there. One is the … Continue reading
Aaron Berdofe, MHI - Health Informatics 