Comments on: News 12/24/08

By: joe

joe — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 20:59:48 +0000

Update on Emageon II: Stanford International Bank refused to fund the purchase of Emageon by Stanford’s portfolio company, Health System Solutions. No explanation given for refusal (or inability) to fund the transaction.

By: The Alchemist

The Alchemist — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 15:54:48 +0000

RE: HIMSS Stage 6. I’m sure HIMSS has HIT in its best interest but has anyone actually read the ISO Standards that HIMSS is purporting as their EMR Staging Model (SM) although I have not seen any reference notation to or credit to ISO Standards ISO/TR 20514: 2005. Health Informatics – electronic health record. http://www.iso.org/iso/iso_catalogue/catalogue_tc/catalogue_detail.htm?csnumber=39525. The key to reaching ISO Stage 7 is the integration of comprehensive Clinical Decision Support modules that HIMSS fails to addresses as essential to reaching HIMSS EMR Nirvana (SM).

For those of us working stiffs that do not want to PAY FOR VIEW the original ISO technical report, here is a modest overview of the ISO Standards for Shared Electronic Medical Records. (warning PDF)
http://www.wmin.ac.uk/cscs/pdf/IDPT%202007%20INTEROP%20Paper%205%20Begoyan.pdf

BTW – We say Merry Christmas!

By: PMD

PMD — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 13:34:54 +0000

Thanks Inga, just what I needed this xmas eve! Have a great one!

By: DZA

DZA — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 12:07:23 +0000

“Motion Computing, maker of the C5 Mobile Clinical Assistant, gets $6 million in new funding. The press release says the C5 has been deployed to over 4,000 healthcare organizations, which is a lot more than I would have guessed. They must be selling lots of them in other countries since I’m pretty sure their hospital penetration is nowhere near 50% here and even that would only be 3,000.”

they have penetrated every nook and cranny of the med surg units in my house. stacked up in corners, collecting dust and repair tags, mostly. no keyboard, low resolution, only responds to tethered stylus (ie cant even punch keypad with my pen tip). used mostly by TA for POC and VS documentation. no clinicians use them. and the expensive built in features (biometric and bar code scanner) aren’t even enabled. unbelievably useless POS at 5K a pop. but they are washable in case they ever actually get used…

By: joe

joe — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 04:52:40 +0000

Emageon latest: HSS, the acquiring company, is 86% owned by Stanford International Bank, based in Antigua and run by the mysterious playboy cricketeer billionaire Allan Stanford. Stanford International Bank is contractually obligated to pay for the purchase of Emageon, but has so far refused to do so. No explanation given. HSS is demanding that Stanford International Bank pony up the dough. Sort of like me demanding that I give myself money for a new suit. This may end up in court, with Emageon suing HSS in Delaware to sue Stanford International Bank in Florida. Stanford International Bank is, meanwhile, busy building a big American institutional financial consultancy (in addition to its many other US operations) even as it blithely ignores contracts signed with American companies. Perhaps some regulator somewhere might want to take a closer look at these guys.