Comments on: News 12/7/07

By: Godfather_transfer

Godfather_transfer — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 12:29:33 +0000

Shares sale
Even I stayed away from numbers, but that does look like a huge number of shares and it seems it all went away in one small period. Will this also be followed by a change of guard….?

By: grizzled veteran

grizzled veteran — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 08:44:52 +0000

re: lacy … if an Epic customer calls with a problem they will be directed toward their tech services rep immediately and if that person is not available or if it is after normal business hours reception will bend over backwards to find them someone with the technical knowledge to help them.

By: DrM

DrM — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 17:07:22 +0000

I have to disagree with Inga on the need for health IT legislation. Having been around MDs long enough (and being one myself) I’ve learned that MDs will start using IT readily (even the cranky old ones) if you demonstrate the value for *them*. Not for their employers, their payors, their co-workers. Patients might work, but the payoff had better be worth it.

That said, few healthcare IT products have been shown to be a slam dunk for even the patients, and most are known to make MDs’ lives worse. To date no healthcare IT system has been shown to be better than good ol’ aspirin. If you want to have the massive negative reaction akin to the one HIPAA currently has among MDs (particularly at research institutions), by all means legislate another un/under-funded project onto their plates.

If you really want to change the way MDs respond to healthcare IT through legislation, get Congress to change their E&M documentation requirements. My EMR knows everything that I saw and did; that should be enough to get paid without forcing me to write it out, and should be able to send in a standard format that 100% completed any requirements so that my denials should be limited to poor care alone. If you linked those changes to EMRs, MDs would be lining up the block to get them.

By: PoBoy

PoBoy — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 17:00:49 +0000

Re: General Atlantic selling only a million shares of Eclipsys stock. Insider Transactions reported the folowing sales by Steve Denning of General Atlantic:
11/13– 686,464 shares
8/21– 1,626,182 shares
8/13– 1,911,933 shares

I’m not a math major, but these sales add up to more than a million shares.

By: Datamus

Datamus — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 16:00:23 +0000

In looking for folks selling patient data, it is incredibly important to distinguish the use of properly de-identified data from identifiable data. Having worked to improve patient safety and quality, properly de-identified data for benchmarking and analysis is essential to study practice and improve performance. If we categorize the use of patient data without making this distinction, we risk a crucial tool in work to make care better, safer and more efficient.

That said, if anyone is selling IDENTIFIABLE patient data without proper authorization from the patient, they should go to jail.