June 26, 2008
In this new age of modern, enlightened EMR-hood, there is no way around it:
You will have to get cozy with your IT support staff.
Really cozy. On better terms with them than your spouse, cozy.
Unless you want to be spending at least as much time working with your hardware, software, and systems integration issues as you [...]
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November 8, 2007
There’s a fascinating article on the EMR and HIPAA blog that I couldn’t pass up.
It addresses one governmental (i.e. Medicare) solution to the traditionally low adoption rates of physicians of EMR’s: lower the upfront costs to essentially zero with the VistA system built by the Veterans Administration.
The clincher for me was the following observation:
While Medicare’s [...]
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