Your EMR will save you time? …Really?
Check out this video of the new Dr Chrono eRx application on the iPad. I love my iPad and try to hide it everytime I walk into a physician office because inevitably I get the question: “Does MEDITECH/LSS work on the iPad.” I’m not in marketing or sales for MEDITECH or LSS and so I give … 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
Meaningful Use Proposed Rule Word Cloud
I’m not quite sure what compelled me to do a word cloud of the ARRA HITECH “Meaningful Use” Proposed Rule, but I did it. Perhaps it was because I haven’t seen one yet. I think it’s interesting to note that there’s a whole lot more in the proposed rule about payments and incentives than actually … Continue reading
Ambulatory EMR Market Share Anaylsis
Quick update. I saw this little article on estimated current market share of ambulatory EMRs. Not overly surprising, but interesting.
Major Hurdles To Ambulatory EMR Implementations – Take 2
Back in September, I posted some of the hurdles that organizations experience when implementing an ambulatory EMR. The top three that I had dealt with at the time were: Treating the implementation as an entire organization project instead of a solely Information Systems/Technology project. Physician acceptance and leadership Reviewing existing physician practice group procedures and … Continue reading
The Physician Narrative Vs. The EMR Template
Or…How many clicks does it take to develop a narrative? Or…Why the benefits of EMRs may be at the population level and not the individual level How can you apply the highly desirable and perhaps necessary physician narrative using a template-based EMR? The short answer is that you don’t. Discreet data and a non-structured narrative … 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
Requiring A Dx In MPM On Lab/Rad Orders
For those who have made the attempt to implement the Ambulatory Order Management (AOM) module within MEDITECH and LSS Data Systems’s Medical and Practice Management Suite (MPM), one of the many common frustrations is that the system does not have the ability to require a diagnosis on a Lab or Rad order as part of its standard … 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
E-Prescribing with DrFirst and LSS/MEDITECH MPMc
One of the pending requirements that will see its way to the final document for “Meaningful Use” is to have physicians electronically submit prescriptions. LSS Data Systems/MEDITECH have partnered with Dr. First to add this functionality into their MPMc product. As of this post, there are only 3 MAGIC clients utilizing the e-prescribing functionality in … Continue reading
Aaron Berdofe, MHI - Health Informatics 