Meaningful Use November 2011 Attestation Report
The CMS has released their Meaningful Use November 2011 Report for the masses to review. I have gone ahead and loaded the data into IBM’s wonderful Many Eyes site so you can play around with the data too. No big surprises have come out of this data. Epic is the heavyweight and is pulling in … Continue reading
New MEDITECH Hire Is Good News For LSS Customers
MEDITECH let out some interesting news with a new physician hire to lead their EHR (the LSS product, MPM) redesign. The new physician specifically mentions he’ll be working on the “new design”, but what remains to be seen is whether this is a complete redesign (yes, please) or just tweaking. What also wasn’t mentioned was … Continue reading
Advanced MD’s “Epic” EHR
Looks like Advanced MD is trying some new SEO tactics by inserting the name of a top-selling EHR into the ads for their not-so-top-selling EHR. I’m not sure what they were going for here, but wouldn’t this make more informed potential buyers less likely to take a look at their product because of stupid advertising? … Continue reading
Health Informatics
A little bit of an update in the news of me: I’m taking some time to pursue higher education and will be getting my Masters of Health Informatics over the newly started school year at the University of Minnesota. For those of you that keep up with this blog, you know I’ve dabbled quite a … Continue reading
EMR Increases Patient Satisfaction?
The Journal of Medical Internet Research just published a paper concluding that an EMR had improved patient satisfaction in Pediatric Rheumatology practices. Included in the overall satisfaction was the perceived improvement in quality by the patient. A couple of thoughts based on my experience: 1.) Frequent patients are more likely to report a positive feeling … Continue reading
MEDITECH acquires LSS Data Systems
At 10am central today, the staff of LSS Data Systems was told that their company will be acquired by their giant partner, MEDITECH pending board approval in February. This ends years of speculation about how MEDITECH would fully enter the ambulatory market. A month after I started at LSS in July 2005, I made the prediction that MEDITECH would … Continue reading
Aaron Berdofe, MHI - Health Informatics 