Posts Tagged ‘Electronic Medical Record’

In the months after Perficient published a whitepaper on Gamification, the interest from our readers has been gratifying and it seems to be time for a follow-up to that interest. Business gamification is the use of game mechanics and user interfaces in business software. What are the practical uses of gamification in a healthcare workplace? […]

Meaningful Use Stage 1 encouraged physicians to implement an EHR in order to capture discrete and some unstructured healthcare data with the future goal of sharing this across the industry. Stage 2 reimbursement (preliminary) will be based on the patient taking an active role in the sharing of this data. This is contrary to the […]

When it comes to healthcare there are two main problems: Quality of care and cost. It has been suggested that these issues can be solved with data – data that is available and useful but fails to be transferred and properly communicated to practitioners. If this information is properly transferred amongst providers via HIEs then […]

The point of healthcare technology is to close the gap between quality, cost and access. As we have said before, EMRs don’t close the gap, but they are a very necessary piece to closing the gap. However, a gap still exists between the information in an EMR and the information a clinician needs in the […]

Requirements regarding the electronic transfer of personal health information differs from state to state. Some have suggested that the Federal government needs to establish guidelines for health information exchanges. Health information exchanges (HIEs) are technology solutions that address healthcare issues by aggregating massive amounts of data and allowing multiple entities have access to the data […]

In social media circles new bloggers often ask me what they should blog about. My number one answer is “pick your passion”. If you write about something that truly interests you, something that makes your ears perk up when you hear random mumblings on the topic while in line for morning coffee, then you will […]

Last week I came across this article entitled Top 10 EMR Installation Mistakes by Pete Rivera of Healthcare Informatics. Overall, this was a great list, but I was particularly struck by the second item listed in this top 10: We deal with this topic a lot in our practice. Many healthcare organizations invest heavily in […]

The U.S. healthcare system is run by highly talented people that are using outmoded forms of communication. Many clinicians still use paper files and faxes to communicate and lack the basic infrastructure to communicate efficiently regarding critical care decisions. As health insurance companies and health providers struggle with efforts to control costs, reduce administration and […]

This is an exciting time for healthcare technology. We are literally witnessing a transformation in the way that care is delivered, and technology is taking center stage. I have read a number of reports in just the past week about the rise in telehealth, mobile health, and remote patient monitoring. One report showed that the […]

The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) introduced in early 2009 provides reimbursement incentives for Medicare and Medicaid to physician and hospital providers who meet the requirements of implementing “meaningful use” with an electronic medical record (EMR) or electronic health record (EHR) certified system. The reimbursements start in October 2011 and continue through 2015 with […]

Helping Health IT End Users Adapt to Change This is the second in our series of interviews with Dr. Nanette Nuessle. In this interview, we discussed physician use of healthcare technology and how doctors cope with technology changes in their practice of medicine. What I found most insightful about this particular interview was her description […]

It goes without saying that electronic medical records is a hot topic in healthcare technology. We are often asked, “What does Perficient do in electronic medical records?” While Perficient does not provide EMR or EHR solutions, interoperability should be top of mind as more and more records become electronic. This is what I was thinking […]