Is Meaningful Use working and what can innovators do to help with EHR adoption?
Earlier this year NueMD created a nice looking Meaningful Use Infographic — asking the question whether MU was helping or hurting EHR Adoption. I loved the summary but I wanted to dig in a little further so I asked Dr. William Rusnak, a resident physician in radiology and a healthcare IT writer for NueMD, to tell us what that infographic meant for innovators and folks building solutions. Here’s what Dr. Rusnak said:
When the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) launched their Electronic Health Records (EHR) Incentive Programs, coined “Meaningful Use” (MU) back in January 2011, the main goal was ...
Source: The Healthcare IT Guy - November 9, 2014 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Shahid N. Shah Tags: EHR Meaningful Use EHR adoption Electronic health record Featured Source Type: blogs
Hyperpersonal Technology on Smartphones; A New Term for Health Apps
In a recent article in the New York Times about Intel's resident social scientist (see: Intel’s Sharp-Eyed Social Scientist), mention was made of hyperpersonal technology with regard to fitness trackers and voice recognition apps. I had never heard this term used before but it struck me as useful. Think about the term personal computer (PC) that has been used for decades. It was originally coined to distinguish between large-scale office and corporate computers and the smaller devices owned and used by individuals. PCs provide personal computing services to individuals. Hyperpersonal technolog...
Source: Lab Soft News - February 19, 2014 Category: Pathologists Authors: Bruce Friedman Tags: Clinical Lab Industry News Clinical Lab Testing Healthcare Business Healthcare Delivery Medical Consumerism Medical Research Source Type: blogs
FDA Begins to Regulate Smartphone Health Apps
I have closely tracked the evolution of smartphones as devices that can be adapted, sometimes with plug-in gadgets, to monitor one's health status (see: New Definition for "Apps": The Smartphone Market for Medical Software; The iPhone Effect: Smartphones and Their App Ecosystems Have Changed Everything; Healthcare in Developing Countries; Relationship to Smartphone Apps and Devices; Smartphone Otoscope: Diagnosing Middle Ear Disease at Home?). As one might expect, the FDA intends to regulate some of these smartphone apps and gadgets, some of which are beginning to closely resemble medi...
Source: Lab Soft News - October 1, 2013 Category: Pathologists Authors: Bruce Friedman Tags: Healthcare Delivery Healthcare Information Technology Lab Regulation Laboratory Industry Trends Medical Consumerism Medical Research Point-of-Care Testing Test Kits and Home Testing Source Type: blogs
Pediatric Nasal Foreign Bodies
Many of my pediatric patients with nasal foreign bodies present to the emergency department for chief complaints unrelated to the nose. The young man shown below, for example, presented several years ago for the evaluation of dog bite wounds to the face. I could see the telltale signs and symptoms of a chronic unilateral nasal drainage the minute I walked in the room. (Figure 1.)
Figure 1. Nasal drainage is the telltale sign of a nasal foreign body.
I questioned the patient and his father, and they offered no history to confirm insertion of a nasal foreign body. Nevertheless, a wad of mummified Halloween candy wrapping...
Source: M2E Too! Mellick's Multimedia EduBlog - September 3, 2013 Category: Emergency Medicine Tags: Blog Posts Source Type: blogs
Where’s the Imagery in EHR?
One of my readers recently asked me, “Where’s the imagery in EHR?”
It was a fascinating question. At the core of their question was the implication that there was real value in images that wasn’t being leveraged in EHR software. This is not to say that EHR software doesn’t do any imagery, but it could do so much more. Pretty much every EHR software I’ve seen has some sort of image documentation available. Sometimes it’s just uploading an image to the EHR, but in most cases you can incorporate an image into the documentation itself. Usually you can do some sort of Paint like ed...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - July 26, 2013 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: John Lynn Tags: EHR Electronic Health Record Electronic Medical Record EMR Healthcare Interoperability HealthCare IT DICOM EMA EMR EMR Imagery EMR Radiology Modernizing Medicine Radiology Images Video EMR Source Type: blogs
Highlights from TEDMED 2013
This post was originally published on Rock Health’s blog. Rock Health is powering the future of the digital health ecosystem, bringing together the brightest minds in health and technology to build better solutions. Rock Health supports digital health entrepreneurs through a startup accelerator, public events, and open-source research.
TEDMED 2013 in Washington DC was an unforgettable experience. The Rock Health team joined 1,800 thought leaders from across the country to hear brilliant short talks, experience imaginative art performances, and connect with others seeking to change health care.
Here are some of o...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - April 29, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Events TEDMED Source Type: blogs
What was medical school like? Years III and IV
After completing years I and II, you have a small break. At our school, this break was only a few weeks....and it wasn't really a 'break' at all.After completion of year II, it was required that we take (and pass) the USMLE Step I. This first part (of a three part series) tests your basic science skills. Basically, the things we learned in years I and II are being tested. Our school was pretty good about teaching to the test (somewhat), and boasted a high first time pass rate. But you see, that 'break' was spent cramming for this licensing exam.This exam was very difficult. You know, one of those exams that you can't even ...
Source: EM Physician - Backstage Pass - April 3, 2008 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Taylor Source Type: blogs
