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
Calling All Meditech/LSS Resources
Are you an independent consultant specializing in the Medical and Practice Management Suite applications developed by LSS Data Systems and Meditech? Do you have the knowledge/skills and are thinking about getting into consulting? Please contact me. Drop me your digits. Send me your resume. Let me know how to get in contact with you. Why? … 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
Big Data: A Warning
You’ve heard of Big Data, right? The coming Goliath that will be the savior of everything and has a significant chance of blowing your mind? If you work at a healthcare organization or perhaps just run a blog about HIT you’ve probably already gotten calls and e-mails about how this new version of analytics will change … Continue reading
Bidding The Hierarchical Database Adieu
Jeff Atwood over at the Stack Exchange recently posted his thoughts on the differences between Flat or Threaded style web discussion forums. To save you the trouble of clicking, a flat discussion thread would be one where the comments are linear, a threaded style would be where they are nested, or hierarchical. How is this … 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
The Changing Hospital Feeder System
The act of a major tertiary care hospital acquiring a number of smaller community hospitals is not a new concept. In terms of healthcare business models, the industry is fairly monochrome. Strategically speaking, the idea is to siphon or “feed” patients from hospitals that are providing a standard level of care to the more advanced … Continue reading
Aaron Berdofe, MHI - Health Informatics 