Comments on: President Obama Wise To Invest in Healthcare IT

By: hgh therapy

hgh therapy — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 07:30:28 +0000

Well The measures to manage this are nearer to non-existent than complete. We can proceed much quicker if our aim is to own software. But my organization’s aim is to advance the value of care and efficiency. We require to work through many of provider and clinic integration minutia first.

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Government Initiatives | EMR Blog — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 21:42:44 +0000

[...] President Obama Wise To Invest in Healthcare IT Candid CIO, November 26, 2008 Certainly we have a great story to tell in central and northern Wisconsin. Ministry Health Care and Marshfield Clinic are implementing an EHR setting aside competitive interests to put patients first. In doing so we will provide integrated care in such a way as to eliminate duplicate testing, actively manage preventive care and eliminate wasteful paper-work. [...]

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President Obama Wise To Invest in Healthcare IT | EMR Blog — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 20:49:49 +0000

[...] President Obama Wise To Invest in Healthcare ITCertainly we have a great story to tell in central and northern Wisconsin. Ministry Health Care and Marshfield Clinic are implementing an EHR setting aside competitive interests to put patients first. In doing so we will provide integrated care in such a way as to eliminate duplicate testing, actively manage preventive care and eliminate wasteful paper-work. [...]

By: Jay Fisher

Jay Fisher — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 01:04:53 +0000

Agreed … Walmart will not have a BIG impact. And almost certainly none in the inpatient world. I can see a conversation somewhere in the corporate healthcare world between a harried CIO and a frustrated physician (who does not even work for the hospital) with the MD saying …if Walmart can do this then why does it take you so long?

If the CIO can explain why … then maybe the answers will be in a tiny tilt away from a philosophy of highly engineered customization … a little ways toward “commoditized” or “standardized” …

And that might help. A little.

Hope you are enjoying HIMSS!

By: Health Care

Health Care — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 05:37:29 +0000

Great information you provide us thanks for your post, Stakeholders agree that all efforts and systems should be based on sound medical science and published literature. The new systems need to assure and deliver quality, consistent care, incorporating the best diagnostic and quality care guidelines. you can get more feedback from this as well.

By: hospitalcio

hospitalcio — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 15:52:28 +0000

Jay, it is always great to hear from you. Walmart is not the first industry titan to dip their tow in the healthcare space. I have seen Ameritech, American Express, Altel, and IBM enter the electronic records world followed by hasty exits. All of them were going to teach us folks in healthcare what we are doing wrong.

I don’t see how buying software at Walmart will speed the rollout of EHRs. The part that takes so long is integration with the other healthcare entities. Doctors want to order tests from the hospitals and receive the results back electronically. The standards to do this are closer to non-existent than complete. We can go faster if our goal is to own software. But my organization’s goal is to improve the quality of care and efficiency. We need to work through a lot of provider and hospital integration details first.

By: Jay Fisher

Jay Fisher — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 13:13:29 +0000

Leadership sometimes comes from strange quarters, and is perhaps not always intended. Consider Walmart entering the EMR market … http://news.cnet.com/Wal-Mart-to-market-digital-health-records-system/2100-1038_3-6249213.html?tag=newsEditorsPicksArea.0

What they’ve done, is to throw down a challenge to all of us to do more, quickly, with less money.

Most providers will not find Walmart an attractive option, for lots of reasons. But all of us should pause, and consider. Can we do our own EMR more quickly? Can we do it with less money? Is a highly-engineered, customized system what we need, at least day one?

By: Jeremy Engdahl-Johnson

Jeremy Engdahl-Johnson — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 19:47:41 +0000

Of course, there are many points of disagreement on healthcare reform and numerous difficult decisions and compromises to be hammered out. But there’s also widespread agreement on at least two critical reform requirements.

– Electronic health records (EHR). Bringing together the major medical systems has been a priority of current HHS Secretary Michael Leavitt, and will likely be backed by his probable successor Tom Daschle. EHR adoption is still low, so the opportunity is real and big.
– Evidence-based medicine. Stakeholders agree that all efforts and systems should be based on sound medical science and published literature. The new systems need to assure and deliver quality, consistent care, incorporating the best diagnostic and quality care guidelines. These guidelines need to be available at the patient’s bedside as well as throughout payer and provider organizations.

These two concepts give us a starting point for the emerging health reform compromise. I’m looking forward to seeing more points of agreement emerge as the reform conversation gains volume.

Possibilities? http://www.healthcaretownhall.com