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
Centralized vs. Decentralized Billing
When philosophizing about how healthcare organizations are set up, there comes a point very early on in the haze of buzzwords where a mental sparring happens over whether the physician practice billing should be centralized or decentralized. Now, I’m not old enough to have been around when this debate first came about, but the trend … Continue reading
What Your Patients Want From An EHR
I think there is a misconception out there that patient’s will begin demanding that their physicians use an EHR. Many practices and healthcare organizations have even begun touting their newly implemented systems in bids to attract new patients. The message is simple enough: We have fancy new technology so you should come to us instead … Continue reading
Creating MEDITECH Doc Tool Templates for the Physician Practice
Creating templates in the MEDITECH’s Documentation Tool (Doc Tool) can be a pain. Utilizing the pre-built templates that you can purchase from Zynx isn’t much better. You’re going to spend a lot of time in these dictionaries regardless of what option you choose. However unfortunate, no matter how much time you slave away, pouring blood, … 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
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
MEDITECH/LSS Ordering Setup
One of the qualifications of Meaningful Use is to use computerized physician order entry (CPOE) within your EMR (Still resisting EHR! This is how I fight the man). The dirty secret in the LSS world is that barely any of their customers actually use the ordering functionality to its full intent. Some send orders to the Lab, … 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
Ambulatory EMR Market Share Analysis: Take 2
HISTalk Practice just posted a summary of CapSite’s 2010 Ambulatory EMR Market Share Analysis. Informative graphics speak better than words so look at the chart above and follow the links for more details.
MEDITECH Doc Tool Shortcuts
I just wanted to throw out the Doc Tool shortcuts for LSS MPM users that prefer to still use the keyboard without a mouse. These should work on the MEDITECH side as well. Please let me know if you have any to add. My list is derived from my own tinkering. Tab: Move down the … Continue reading
Aaron Berdofe, MHI - Health Informatics 