Sounds reasonable, until you look at the Silicon Valley experience. Silicon Valley grew like a weed precisely because employees could…
Morning Headlines 1/5/18
Power restored for Henry Ford Health’s computers
Henry Ford Health System (MI) recovers from a power outage at its data center early Thursday morning that shut down phones, email, and IT systems, including Epic.
Following in the House’s November footsteps, the Senate unanimously passes the Veterans E-Health & Telemedicine Support Act of 2017, giving VA providers the ability to care for patients via telemedicine at any location in any state.
Patient portal use and hospital outcomes
A Mayo Clinic Jacksonville study finds that only around 20 percent of inpatients who had previously registered for its patient portal actually used it during their stay, concluding that inpatient portal use probably doesn’t improve outcomes.
VillageMD Announces $80 Million Growth Financing from Athyrium Capital Management
Primary care management and technology company VillageMD raises $80 million in a financing round led by Athyrium Capital Management, bringing its total funding to $116 million.
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77 percent of EHR-using ophthalmologists say their practice is owned by physicians and only 6 percent by hospitals, which raises an interesting question – why the heck are so many of them using Epic instead of a specialty-specific EHR/PM? That seems suspicious.
I think there typically a sort of shotgun marriage between the hospital/ health system and its PHO physician-owned practices. The doc’s like their clinic space, OR time and referral base–and would rather not run their own EMR–and the hospital wants to bind them closer to the hospital. The doctors can have any EMR they want, so long as it is Epic. They hold their nose, and jump in.
Keep up the good work,
rb