There I was, sitting in my comfortable chair reading my newspaper on Sunday morning. I flipped through Parade magazine, a supplement to my Sunday Philadelphia Inquirer. A headline on Page 8 caught my attention: ''Electronic Health Records Face Critics.'' The article noted a new Harvard Medical School study that suggests electronic health records ...

With the annual HIMSS conference just days away, here is some of what I will be covering while in Atlanta: Opening keynote address on Monday morning by Dan Hesse, CEO, Sprint Nextel. Check the ADVANCE Perspective's blog for my commentary on the keynote address and other activities including a report from Sunday's CHIME CIO Forum. On Monday ...

As promised, the results are in and health care has spoken. Health care really doesn't want the Apple iPad, which was released recently, but it likes tablet PC devices.Medical Software Advice polled those in health care on whether or not this new device will be the first device to break into the health care industry. Here are the results.

I was reading a business writer's column in the local newspaper the other day. He wrote about how very few horrendously horrible corporate CEOs are ever shown the door, even though they may have walked away with the entire store. Not many of them get the well-deserved boot. The columnist quoted a chief reputation strategist. I had to dig a bit ...

As many of you who read my blog regularly know, I'm a huge model railroad enthusiast. I have a small, but growing, 4 x 8 model railroad layout in my basement, depicting a fictitious short line railroad, the Albany & New England, loosely affiliated with the Boston and Maine Railroad, and also the Boston and Albany Railroad. My Albany & ...

The views and opinions expressed in this blog are mine personally, and are not necessarily representative of Texas Health Resources (THR) or its subsidiaries. Last week, one of our hospitals went live on CPOE. My boss and I were there as part of the ribbon-cutting ceremony and to commend IT and the hospital for their hard work. When we met in ...

I posted a blog recently about Software Advice posting a survey on its site. Here's the results of their survey about whether stimulus money for electronic health record/electronic medical record (EHR/EMR) adoption was creating any buyers or just tire-kickers. Software Advice said that Oct. 30 marked the close of the first reporting period for ...

Software Advice is hosting a survey  on its blog until Oct. 29 about the impact the federal economic stimulus bill has had on EMR adoption rates. The article and survey to the link are located here: http://www.softwareadvice.com/articles/medical/obamas-emr-stimulus-of-2009-creating-buyers-or-tire-kickers-1102709/Software Advice gives advice ...

There I was on a recent afternoon searching for more details on the term ''meaningful use of an electronic health record,'' when I started poking around YouTube to see if there were any videos by David Blumenthal, MD, MPP, national coordinator for health information technology. Maybe he presented in a public forum and his comments were posted in ...

Guest commentary by Nancy Nager, RN, BSN, MSN, president of Specialized Billing Services, Inc. Medical billing is about to get a lot more complicated. If your medical practice hasn't kept pace with new billing requirements, or if you're bogged down by receivables, it may be time to take action. As part of its health care reform plan, the Obama ...