Comments on: News 7/8/09

By: Billy Bear

Billy Bear — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 23:39:15 +0000

The Cerner–Sunquest rivalry has now extended to emails threatening their own employees. Unfortunately they have so far achieved but a pale imitation of Neal Patterson’s famous missive. The latest attempt shows promise, but does not go the whole distance of threatening termination.

“Unless RA/QA has reviewed, approved and certified that the DHF is complete by COB Thursday, July 2, everyone in PD will be expected to be in the office working the 4th of July weekend to complete the DHF. We would rather work late this evening than work this weekend, so make sure your priorities are in order. Let’s stay focused and complete the task at hand so that we can all enjoy the weekend.”

As yet, history does not yet record if the product Development staff had a Happy 4th of July or not. Were I one of them, I know how I would feel.

By: Frank Marino

Frank Marino — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 01:16:10 +0000

Really? [awful user name, as it looks like I'm being sarcastic] – all the docs who advertise their prices – representing, perhaps, a fraction of a percent of the physicians practicing – are all non-insurance. Please, point me to any real, constant display of pricing by physicians taking insurance. It certainly doesn’t exist in the specialities I know.

Back to the original point: I don’t know a SINGLE PHYSICIAN who fears HIT opening up their books. I’m with DrM on this one.

By: blah

blah — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 20:49:53 +0000

Ok so speculation from on online poll as to why Physicians resist HIT, blah. Here is a good reason for Physicians to not resist. Its estimated over the next 5 years Genomic profiles will start playing a huge part in healthcare. Many citizens are already purchasing their Genetic profile privately. These profile represent a huge amount of data and don’t change over time. A single test at a young age will be able to be stored in records of a patient. When new research is available it’s not feasible to search your patient population for patients who may respond to proactive treatment in a paper World.

A study by the House of Lords in England (http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld200809/ldselect/ldsctech/107/107i.pdf ) has just been completed outlining the role EMR’s will play in this process. The report urges faster uptake to be ready for this sea change in Healthcare strategies.

2015 and meaningful use, or 2015 and not being able to offer more than “Do you have a family history of…..?”.

By: Cowgirl in the Dust

Cowgirl in the Dust — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 16:41:51 +0000

Product and company names like “my1HIE(R)” and “syfy” give marketing professionals a bad name. I’ll bet those came from C-level execs, most of whom in my experience think marketing is simple and too costly so try to do it themselves. Just got off a call with a CEO who introduced the word (?!) “gravativity” to the lexicon. Apparently, opportunity for my services abound!

By: Really?

Really? — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 16:26:15 +0000

House’s comment is along the lines of what I meant. I understood Frank Marino to say that MDs are not allowed to know what others charge. I believe they’re allowed to know, it’s just a matter of how they learn it. If they learn it from a MD’s advertisements (which an MD can do), that’s fine. If price lists are being emailed to one another, that’s potentially collusion.

The airlines don’t send their price lists to each other, but airlines share their prices publically and other airlines use the data that way. I think it is no different for MDs.