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News 11/6/09 (10 comments)
Soooo nurses feel like they have lost their jobs because of HIT? No…it couldn’t be the change in economy, payor mix, and ever shrinking reimbursements. Nope…it must be HIT! Technology in the hospital has made is apparent where inefficiences ar [...]
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PezMan
2009-11-07 10:37:23
News 11/4/09 (13 comments)
“It’s not that, it’s the 80yo showing up at the ED with an adverse drug reaction and they ask her what meds she’s on”

They treat the symptoms, fluids/pressors/diuretics or whatever is needed then they can ask her what drug store she goes to. [...]

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Anon
2009-11-06 00:27:09
Readers Write 11/2/09 (4 comments)
Kermit,
Nice Ad. Well done! [...]
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LGRO
2009-11-05 13:32:40
News 10/30/09 (10 comments)
I agree, “software that displays or manipulates lab results, provides diagnostic suggestions, or manages drug therapy,” falls under the FDA’s definition of a medical device. Furthermore, the sophisticated ways in which labs now use middleware a [...]
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Lisa Bromley
2009-11-03 14:24:18
TPD’s List of iPhone Applications (18 comments)
iPhoneFan

Below is the corrected link to the 8h2o app:

http://www.appsafari.com/food/6636/8h2o/

I’ll fix the link info for the next update release

TPD

Aly Gordon

Thanks for the input on Lexi-COMPLETE, I’ll add it to the next updated [...]

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The PACS Designer
2009-11-03 14:01:05
Monday Morning Update 11/2/09 (8 comments)
“The Sowell stuff is more of convervative agenda piece”

Aren’t most HIT vendor executives Republicans? [...]

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Not so holy cow
2009-11-02 11:09:25
News 10/28/09 (17 comments)
No Chip…not you at all. It is Suzie’s outbursts in every Mr. H post for the past month. She makes all these random & baseless comments. It sounds like Westboro in the fact that they hold onto such ridiculously conservative & out there be [...]
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PezMan
2009-10-31 21:31:39
HIStalk Interviews Parker Hinshaw (4 comments)
I enjoyed seeing this on the web site this morning. I knew Parker when he came into Daou Systems (most likely one of the places with bad culture he is thinking about), and I think the article does a good job capturing his personality and providing a [...]
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Jedi Knight
2009-10-30 09:48:59
Readers Write 10/27/09 (20 comments)
Appreciate Saravana’s further clarification of the contribution of XDS. One of the challenges here would be for documents/data that do not meet XDS/HL7/DICOM standards and still need to be accessed inter-organizationally.

Deborah’s comments are [...]

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Lynn Vogel
2009-10-29 14:56:19
Pam Pure Leaves McKesson (72 comments)
I worked at mck 4.5 yrs all in clinical mgmnt. Came in starry eyed. Worked 60-70 hrs week finally took a few weeks vaca in last year. Had 4 different bosses and a new team to manage every single year. Got hounded to move to Alpharetta as an “up and c [...]
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Former Sales VP
2009-10-29 08:11:56
Monday Morning Update 10/26/09 (29 comments)
Mata Hari: I think if you re-read my message you will note I’m indicating we should partner moving forward more between government and healthcare leaders to balance accountability with innovation which has made this country great. My assertion abo [...]
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HIT Project Mgr
2009-10-28 16:06:28
HIStalk Interviews Girish Kumar Navani, President of eClinicalWorks (14 comments)
We have a 7 provider practice, 2 servers and 16 employees. I have to a agree that service is terrible, take too long to fix technical problems which almost ends up creating other problems, the billing part is a nightmare and no one has a clue why fi [...]
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mike
2009-10-26 13:00:53
News 10/23/09 (8 comments)
Mr. HISTalk-get with it! How many men would you refer to as “cute and fun for a 63 year old”?

Would you refer to Bill Gates as “cute and fun for a XX-year old?

Inga-beat him with a wet noodle!

[From Mr. HIStalk] I just might refer to Bill [...]

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Irritated Woman
2009-10-26 12:59:26
An HIT Moment with … Jonathan Phillips (1 comments)
Agreed to some degree with the comments but the biggest problem with his ideal-type of acquisition is that it really doesn’t exist right now.

Some are closer than others and offer bits and pieces. They may largely have the technical and workflo [...]

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Lazlo Hollyfeld
2009-10-22 21:01:46
News 10/21/09 (19 comments)
MedInformaticsMD introduces many good questions about the nature and role of EMR in the ED, however I don’t really know what an EMR is; how extensive is it, where does it get its data from, etc.. I think there is a clear case for the use of a clinic [...]
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jon patrick
2009-10-22 19:32:17
Monday Morning Update 10/19/09 (41 comments)
Mr Histalk and Inga,

Thank you for this resource.

I write to state that the data is not there to support using current HIT iterations on patients with complex illness and whose lives depend on pinpoint accuracy. MAUDE data cause distrust for t [...]

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thered fox
2009-10-22 00:19:45
Healthcare IT from the Investor’s Chair 10/19/09 (4 comments)
Reading this makes it sound like HISTalk is going public. Maybe you’ll get your chance;-) [...]
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John Lynn
2009-10-21 16:23:30
News 9/16/09 (10 comments)
I am the CTO of StatCom and would like to respond to posts regarding the StatCom “Newt Video”. Newt came to Jackson Healthcare to meet with its CEO and Chairman to discuss Jackson Healthcare’s initiatives. During this visit he was introduced to StatC [...]
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Jim Rosenblum
2009-10-20 09:24:09
News 10/16/09 (19 comments)
Wonderful logic there, programmer.

I didn’t post that comment.

In any case, PezMan’s logic makes a lot more sense than the gibberish you just posted. [...]

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Programmer
2009-10-18 18:54:46
HIStalk Interviews Sanjeev Arora (3 comments)
Impressive program. Using IT for appropriate indications: education. [...]
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noah praetor, md
2009-10-17 11:19:53
News 10/14/09 (13 comments)
Epic wins not because it is the best product. It has MANY MANY holes.
They win because the competition has shot itself in the foot so many times they have no toes left to hang on with…and I might add the HIS world has a ‘lemming follow the trend’ [...]
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HISJunkie
2009-10-16 14:56:59
HITlaw 10/14/09 (6 comments)
Here is the argument for a license term. If a vendor provides a license with a five-year term (or longer) and with a defined renewal fee, then that vendor no longer has an incentive to sell the client a new system.

Basically, a perpetual li [...]

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NotPerpetual
2009-10-15 20:52:04
Readers Write 10/12/09 (3 comments)
Lyle,
Interesting stuff. Seems to me like most of these PHPs are still laying the pipes and pouring foundation. What will really spring most of these companies is when the PHRs become the hub of the home medical ecosystem. (Apologies for the mixi [...]
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Bob Schumacher
2009-10-13 21:40:52
News 10/9/09 (25 comments)
Clearly, those of us who work in healthcare, but were not blessed with the divine grace to go to med school, are lucky that physicians are willing to allow us the pleasure of inhabiting the same world.

There is truth in what you say about shortcom [...]

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FabFil
2009-10-13 01:44:37
Monday Morning Update 10/12/09 (8 comments)
Hi Carumba, I totally agree with you. It’s truely a .com model. [...]
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Auditing services india
2009-10-12 02:55:00
News 9/30/09 (20 comments)
heh…there’s a reason nobody has said a word about Intermountain and GE in 2009…doubtful there will be a response from UCSF…the remaining employees surely have been told to keep their mouths shut regarding the Centricity product they have worked [...]
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CT
2009-10-10 12:33:11
Readers Write 10/5/09 (16 comments)
TechnologyMan:

Bullseye. And one of the reasons I prefer to work in a smaller, rural system where tight budgets require a different approach.

Want to see the future of healthcare IT. Go visit an innovative healthcare IT shop in a rural, not [...]

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Mark Moffitt
2009-10-08 23:57:40
News 9/18/09 (41 comments)
Response to the Misys option.

Why oh why would anyone want to stick to an antiquated, unstable product. Its funny how they mums the number of users *1800, yet fail to mention Allscripts (the original) before the merge, has well tripled the amount. [...]

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On Target
2009-10-07 21:07:45
An HIT Moment with … John Shagoury (1 comments)
To be considered is that certain EMR Consultants will try anything to attract interest in any physician group in order to sell Voice Reconition applications. [...]
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MyEMRChoice.com
2009-10-07 20:40:36
News 10/7/09 (5 comments)
Dr. Adelstein writes: “A simple Internet search turns up a plethora of complaints and reports of lawsuits regarding the effectiveness of Cerner’s software and, more important, its failure to provide requested support. The pattern of receiving untes [...]
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hitgal
2009-10-07 11:13:07

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