Comments on: News 2/8/08 http://histalk2.com/2008/02/07/news-2808/ Healthcare IT News and Opinion Sun, 20 May 2012 19:02:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: John http://histalk2.com/2008/02/07/news-2808/comment-page-1/#comment-726 John Fri, 08 Feb 2008 16:23:55 +0000 http://histalk2.com/2008/02/07/news-2808/#comment-726 Art, Today's WSJ reports that Wal-Mart will demand that retail clinics in their stores carry th Wl-mart brand and even more importantly, use eClinicWorks EMR. Thus, eClinicWorks will be the standard EMR across all Wal-mart clinics. Remains to be seen how Dossia will fit in to all of this as right now, Wal-mart's involvement in Dossia is to provide a PHR to their employees and not the customers who visit thir retail clinics. Watch carefully to see if eClinicWorks starts working with Dossia - that will say volumes. Art,
Today’s WSJ reports that Wal-Mart will demand that retail clinics in their stores carry th Wl-mart brand and even more importantly, use eClinicWorks EMR. Thus, eClinicWorks will be the standard EMR across all Wal-mart clinics.

Remains to be seen how Dossia will fit in to all of this as right now, Wal-mart’s involvement in Dossia is to provide a PHR to their employees and not the customers who visit thir retail clinics.

Watch carefully to see if eClinicWorks starts working with Dossia – that will say volumes.

]]> By: Demonurse http://histalk2.com/2008/02/07/news-2808/comment-page-1/#comment-725 Demonurse Fri, 08 Feb 2008 16:20:40 +0000 http://histalk2.com/2008/02/07/news-2808/#comment-725 I absolutely hate to be in the position of defending Cerner. But I don't think they are entirely to blame for the problems that are occurring. I understand that they are unable to work directly with the client - everything goes through the middleman - Fujitsu. It's difficult to development something that is responsive to users when you can't talk to the users to find out what the real requirement is. 'Cause it's never what they think it is initially. I absolutely hate to be in the position of defending Cerner. But I don’t think they are entirely to blame for the problems that are occurring. I understand that they are unable to work directly with the client – everything goes through the middleman – Fujitsu. It’s difficult to development something that is responsive to users when you can’t talk to the users to find out what the real requirement is. ‘Cause it’s never what they think it is initially.

]]> By: Anonymous-behind-Anonymous http://histalk2.com/2008/02/07/news-2808/comment-page-1/#comment-724 Anonymous-behind-Anonymous Fri, 08 Feb 2008 04:48:52 +0000 http://histalk2.com/2008/02/07/news-2808/#comment-724 RE: MEDSEEK or MedSleaze if you please. The entire anthology of events is incredible when the smaller acquired company postures over the larger company AccessPt and executes cor d’ etat taking out the CEO of the merging company. Another great demonstration of “transparency.” No one has heard about the former CEO of MedSeek, Mike Drake. We are all hoping that he will bounce back and show up on the radar somewhere. I guess the demise of Mr. Drake is rather academic: fired by the Board or gracefully resigned. But I can guess that he did not see it coming unless this was one of the conditions for the merger/acquisition between the brilliant technology of AccessPt and the intellectual property of MedSeek. Another marriage made in hell. RE: MEDSEEK or MedSleaze if you please. The entire anthology of events is incredible when the smaller acquired company postures over the larger company AccessPt and executes cor d’ etat taking out the CEO of the merging company. Another great demonstration of “transparency.”

No one has heard about the former CEO of MedSeek, Mike Drake. We are all hoping that he will bounce back and show up on the radar somewhere. I guess the demise of Mr. Drake is rather academic: fired by the Board or gracefully resigned. But I can guess that he did not see it coming unless this was one of the conditions for the merger/acquisition between the brilliant technology of AccessPt and the intellectual property of MedSeek. Another marriage made in hell.

]]> By: QM in LA http://histalk2.com/2008/02/07/news-2808/comment-page-1/#comment-723 QM in LA Fri, 08 Feb 2008 04:20:06 +0000 http://histalk2.com/2008/02/07/news-2808/#comment-723 I hope it is just a bad coincidence that today's report about QuadraMed outsourcing to India and Los Angeles County hospitals reporting all those problems are not related, as all 3 or those facilities run Affinity. I hope it is just a bad coincidence that today’s report about QuadraMed outsourcing to India and Los Angeles County hospitals reporting all those problems are not related, as all 3 or those facilities run Affinity.

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