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Small Steps Could Support Grand Plan for Meaningful Use - June 2, 2010
Orlando Florida --
If you think this whole "meaningful use" thing is a challenge, just wait 'til you hear what they're trying to do over in Europe.
Last week, the European Commission--think of it as the executive branch of the European Union--published its "Digital Agenda," a 10-year plan for IT advancement across the continent. Healthcare figures prominently in the agenda, including the goal of providing secure, online, patient-controlled medical records for many Europeans in the second half of this decade. There are some interim steps in the near term, though.
One aim, according to E-Health Europe, is to "increase safety and medical assistance to Europeans, for instance in an emergency abroad, by defining a minimum set of health information to be included on patient records that can be accessed electronically anywhere in the EU." This is to be done by 2012.
Let me repeat that: European leaders expect to have basic medical histories available to much of their populace across 27 countries within two years.
It sounds like a heady task, particularly since there are no fewer than 23 official languages in the EU. (Think about how elusive semantic interoperabilty is in the U.S. with mostly English involved.) But the standards for exchange of a minimum set of health data already exist, in the forms of the Continuity of Care Record and Continuity of Care Document, and they've already been accepted in many EU countries.
This goal actually sounds more achievable than, say, providing interoperable EMRs to 300 million Americans by 2014, since it's biting off a small piece rather than taking a big bite. That's kind of what another huge bureaucracy, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, had in mind when it started its innovation initiative, asking employees to come up with ideas on how the Veterans Health Administration could improve care and save money.
Just before the long weekend, the VA announced the winners of its second such competition. Things like adding patient photos, search functions and support for touch-screen technology sound easily achievable. Simple enhancements can go a long way, even as part of a grand plan. Think about that as you aim for meaningful use. - Neil
Read more: http://www.fiercehealthit.com/story/small-steps-support-grand-plans/2010-06-01#ixzz0phyLyS8z
Sencilo HealthIT Solutions eHealthcare Architecture: More than technology With Sencilo HealthIT Solutions eHealthcare Architecture, you can leverage the same productivity tools and technology resources that have transformed business. And you get a full portfolio of services too. By working with Sencilo HealthIT Solutions, you can get:
A dedicated customer team
A website customized for your institution
A full portfolio of robust solutions
Easy setup, implementation and maintenance
Simple ordering and delivery
Technology training
Flexible financing options
Sencilo HealthIT Solutions Professional Services makes it easy.
In addition to providing high-quality technology at a low cost, Sencilo HealthIT Solutions Professional
Services can help you plan your healthcare computing from the ground up. By working with you from the initial construction phases, we can help you save time and money and lead to a truly customized solution.
Sencilo HealthIT Solutions Professional Services offers complete services that include:
Design
Procurement
Installation
Training
Maintenance
Support
About Us
Sencilo HealthIT Solutions is a Florida-based integrator specializing in EHR Cost Cutting storage, security and managed services solutions. Sencilo delivers a comprehensive portfolio of products from best-of-breed hardware and software from multiple manufacturers including Allscripts, VMware, Dell Fujitsu EMC, Hitachi, Symantec, IBM, HP, Cisco, Microsoft, Gateway Sencilo has offices throughout Florida including: Orlando Lake Mary Daytona, Medical City solutions include Security "meaningful use" "meaningful usage" EMC HP IBM Quantum Compliance Gartner Magic Quadrant Quadrent LTO Daytona Beach Deland Melborne Tampa Clearwater, Dragon, Voice Recognition, Dragon Dictation
Network Backup appliance Data Recovery Backup Health IT Healthcare IT Digital Hospital Allscripts Patient Data electronic health record P4P rules and the HITECH Act PayerView Rankings practice management tools $44,000 in Medicare or $66,000 in Medicaid from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act eClinicalWorks, Allscripts, NextGen, GE Centricity, and Meditech Electronic Healthcare IT Medical Records EHR Clinical Practices eClinicalWorks Allscripts Florida EMR, EHR, electronic medical record, health, records, practice management systems solutions, medication services, PHR Otolaryngology, Orthopaedics, Pain Nuerosurgery, Urology, Ophthalmology, Cardiology, Billing, Appointment Scheduling, clinicalworks, eClinicalWorks, solutions for physicians, hospitals, clinical education and medical services Computerized Patient CPR, Order Entry, CPOE, Document Clinical Information Informatics, Computer-based, SOAP, HIT, Healthcare Encounter Forms, web based, online, clinical rules database, electronic prescribing, e-prescribing, eprescribing, athenaClinicals, certified EMR, certified EHR, HITECH Act VAR Reseller Dealer hipaa privacy doctor, healthcare performance management, data security, hosting, arra, free, InterFAX, MyWay, HIPPA, EasyPayMedicare, MedicAID, SureScripts, FNC, billing, superbill iMedica Tiger on Windows, eprescribe pqri simple practice management revenue cycle e-cw e-clinicalworks greenway emds nextgen ge sage athena epic klas Dragon NaturallySpeaking speech recognition Google Health, Microsoft Healthvault Health Internet certified "meaningful use" violations HealthPresence Health Presence Sencilo “transformative” telemedicine medicaid medicare Seminole County Medical Society Orange county Orlando Medical News Trusted Advisor e-Prescription e-Rx CareTracker paperless scanning document storage hippa audits iscribe document scanning fi-6130 fi-6040 CCHIT ARRA surescript
Healthcare South Selects Allscripts Electronic Health Records and Practice Management for Primary Care Group - June 2, 2010
Orlando Florida --
Joins Harbor Medical Group as Second Practice in Massachusetts' South Shore PHO to Adopt Allscripts Solution
CHICAGO and PEMBROKE, Mass., June 1 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Allscripts (Nasdaq: MDRX) announced today that Healthcare South has selected the Allscripts Electronic Health Record (EHR) and Practice Management solution to enhance the quality of patient care, improve physician and patient communications, and better manage the cost of care delivery in its nine pediatric and family practice offices across the Boston area.
(Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20081013/AQM041LOGO)
Healthcare South joins the Harbor Medical Group, a nearby multispecialty practice with 71 physicians, in using the Allscripts solution. Both groups belong to the South Shore Physician Healthcare Organization (PHO), which is partly owned by South Shore Hospital in Weymouth, Mass. The PHO provides subsidies to physicians who adopt Electronic Health Records and contribute quality information to the PHO.
"We have been impressed by Harbor Medical's success with Allscripts, and it was clear we should be on the same platform with them and the other South Shore PHO physicians who acquire EHRs in the future," said Francis J. Kilduff, MD, President of Healthcare South. "Our physicians felt that Allscripts was clearly the most intuitive solution."
With the help of the Allscripts READY Rapid Deployment program, which accelerates EHR implementation, Healthcare South expects to go live on the Electronic Health Record by the fall of 2010. A few months later, the practice will switch from its legacy practice management system to the Allscripts billing and scheduling system, including the Allscripts revenue cycle solution, which transmits more than 300 million claims per year with a first-pass claims acceptance rate of 98 percent.
Healthcare South will also implement Allscripts Analytics, which not only enables automatic tracking of performance on financial and quality measures – for example, the percentage of all diabetic patients whose blood glucose levels are not controlled – but also provides proactive patient and population management.
"We're confident that the EHR will help us to raise our scores on quality measures by giving us a dashboard view of key indicators and alerting us when they fall out of range," said Dr. Kilduff. "We're also confident that the connectivity with labs and the ability to track orders and referrals that Allscripts brings will help us improve quality and care coordination."
Glen Tullman, Chief Executive Officer of Allscripts, commented, "As physicians are increasingly rewarded for quality and outcomes rather than quantity of patients seen, forward-thinking practices like Healthcare South are positioned to succeed through improved management of chronic disease and better performance on other key quality measures. We're helping them get there faster with our READY rapid deployment program, which standardizes our EHR implementation, accelerates the time to go-live by about 65 percent and, more importantly, makes the whole process easier and less time-consuming for our physicians, nurses, and other providers and administrators using the program."
Additional Information on ARRA and Meaningful Use
Allscripts has recently deployed a number of resources to help physician practices take advantage of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), which provides approximately $30 billion in Federal "Stimulus" funding for physicians to adopt and demonstrate "meaningful use" of an Electronic Health Record, beginning in 2011. The Allscripts Stimulus Program provides physicians with a guarantee that the Allscripts EHR they select will meet the EHR certification criteria provided by the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). Physicians can also benefit from a new Allscripts financing program requiring no payments for software for six months, as well as new programs focused on faster implementation to ensure physicians can access the Federal Stimulus incentives.
Other ARRA resources from Allscripts include:
•The Allscripts Stimulus Center provides the latest information on ARRA, including frequently asked questions on Meaningful Use and Certification.
•The Allscripts Legislative & Regulatory Action Center is a place to learn about and take action on issues that are critical to the provider community, providing a simple, 'one touch' connection to elected officials.
•'Go' is a website designed for physicians and other providers who are considering deploying Electronic Health Records and other healthcare information technologies. Available at www.allscripts.com/go, the site provides easy access to best practices and success stories from the Allscripts client community of more than 160,000 physicians, 800 hospitals, and 8,000 post-acute care facilities.
About Healthcare South
Healthcare South is an association of physicians practicing in private offices in the South Shore Hospital area. The practice has a central business office and shared goals for patient care. These include standardizing internal procedures to facilitate cross training and team work, becoming the premier primary care network in the South Shore area, and continuing the vision of providing high quality medical care reflective of the high standards of service and quality that have developed over time in our constituent practices. For more information, visit www.healthcaresouth.com.
About Allscripts
Allscripts uses innovation technology to bring health to healthcare. More than 160,000 physicians, 800 hospitals and more than 10,000 post-acute and homecare organizations utilize Allscripts to improve the health of their patients and their bottom line. The company's award-winning solutions include electronic health records, electronic prescribing, revenue cycle management, practice management, document management, care management, emergency department information systems and homecare automation. Allscripts is the brand name of Allscripts-Misys Healthcare Solutions, Inc. To learn more, visit www.allscripts.com.
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SOURCE Allscripts-Misys Healthcare Solutions, Inc.
Read more: http://www.fiercehealthcare.com/press-releases/healthcare-south-selects-allscripts-electronic-health-record-and-practice-management-#ixzz0phx9fVvw
Sencilo HealthIT Solutions eHealthcare Architecture: More than technology With Sencilo HealthIT Solutions eHealthcare Architecture, you can leverage the same productivity tools and technology resources that have transformed business. And you get a full portfolio of services too. By working with Sencilo HealthIT Solutions, you can get:
A dedicated customer team
A website customized for your institution
A full portfolio of robust solutions
Easy setup, implementation and maintenance
Simple ordering and delivery
Technology training
Flexible financing options
Sencilo HealthIT Solutions Professional Services makes it easy.
In addition to providing high-quality technology at a low cost, Sencilo HealthIT Solutions Professional
Services can help you plan your healthcare computing from the ground up. By working with you from the initial construction phases, we can help you save time and money and lead to a truly customized solution.
Sencilo HealthIT Solutions Professional Services offers complete services that include:
Design
Procurement
Installation
Training
Maintenance
Support
About Us
Sencilo HealthIT Solutions is a Florida-based integrator specializing in EHR Cost Cutting storage, security and managed services solutions. Sencilo delivers a comprehensive portfolio of products from best-of-breed hardware and software from multiple manufacturers including Allscripts, VMware, Dell Fujitsu EMC, Hitachi, Symantec, IBM, HP, Cisco, Microsoft, Gateway Sencilo has offices throughout Florida including: Orlando Lake Mary Daytona, Medical City solutions include Security "meaningful use" "meaningful usage" EMC HP IBM Quantum Compliance Gartner Magic Quadrant Quadrent LTO Daytona Beach Deland Melborne Tampa Clearwater, Dragon, Voice Recognition, Dragon Dictation
Network Backup appliance Data Recovery Backup Health IT Healthcare IT Digital Hospital Allscripts Patient Data electronic health record P4P rules and the HITECH Act PayerView Rankings practice management tools $44,000 in Medicare or $66,000 in Medicaid from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act eClinicalWorks, Allscripts, NextGen, GE Centricity, and Meditech Electronic Healthcare IT Medical Records EHR Clinical Practices eClinicalWorks Allscripts Florida EMR, EHR, electronic medical record, health, records, practice management systems solutions, medication services, PHR Otolaryngology, Orthopaedics, Pain Nuerosurgery, Urology, Ophthalmology, Cardiology, Billing, Appointment Scheduling, clinicalworks, eClinicalWorks, solutions for physicians, hospitals, clinical education and medical services Computerized Patient CPR, Order Entry, CPOE, Document Clinical Information Informatics, Computer-based, SOAP, HIT, Healthcare Encounter Forms, web based, online, clinical rules database, electronic prescribing, e-prescribing, eprescribing, athenaClinicals, certified EMR, certified EHR, HITECH Act VAR Reseller Dealer hipaa privacy doctor, healthcare performance management, data security, hosting, arra, free, InterFAX, MyWay, HIPPA, EasyPayMedicare, MedicAID, SureScripts, FNC, billing, superbill iMedica Tiger on Windows, eprescribe pqri simple practice management revenue cycle e-cw e-clinicalworks greenway emds nextgen ge sage athena epic klas Dragon NaturallySpeaking speech recognition Google Health, Microsoft Healthvault Health Internet certified "meaningful use" violations HealthPresence Health Presence Sencilo “transformative” telemedicine medicaid medicare Seminole County Medical Society Orange county Orlando Medical News Trusted Advisor e-Prescription e-Rx CareTracker paperless scanning document storage hippa audits iscribe document scanning fi-6130 fi-6040 CCHIT ARRA surescript
Reasons medical businesses should comply with HIPAA regulations - June 2, 2010
Orlando Florida --
Late Farrah Fawcett, a well known television and film actress, was in the news few years ago, when it was discovered that data pertaining to her health issues was leaked to the newspapers. It can be said that a celebrity is always at the center of attention and is susceptible to the act of compromising confidential information broke a federal law. The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) was enacted in 1996 to avoid unauthorized access to confidential data, and this is what all business related to the medical field must comply with.
Who recognizes HIPAA?
If you are employed by an organization that gathers health data from individuals, you are termed as a ‘covered entity’, and you are expected to adhere to this law. Covered entities encompass the following:
•Healthcare centers and clinics.
•Insurance players in the health and medical space.
•Private practitioners – includes general and specialized practice doctors and others.
•Psychiatrists and Psychologists
•Medical billing outlets and collection companies.
Whether you employ a few or many people, safeguarding patient data is of paramount importance.
Records secured by HIPAA
Patients going to a healthcare center or a clinic must be guaranteed of discretion. It is necessary that confidential records are not compromised and cannot be accessed by people who do not have the required authority. Medical data secured by these federal laws encompass, but are not restricted to:
•Prescription data.
•Medical history logs.
•Appointment records.
•Phone and voicemail data.
•Insurance documents.
•Billing records.
Complying with HIPAA requirements
Old and obsolete patient records must be destroyed to ensure the patient’s privacy. A company adhering to HIPAA rules must be ready to exterminate documents in accordance with policies. Any and all documents have to be shredded thoroughly as just dumping papers cannot assure security – any person with a malicious intent could go through the garbage and obtain important personal information. Retaining the services of a professional is a sure way to ensure your safety also.
Adhering to the HIPAA pertinent to your business will provide you with the peace of mind needed to run without any hitches.
Sencilo HealthIT Solutions eHealthcare Architecture: More than technology With Sencilo HealthIT Solutions eHealthcare Architecture, you can leverage the same productivity tools and technology resources that have transformed business. And you get a full portfolio of services too. By working with Sencilo HealthIT Solutions, you can get:
A dedicated customer team
A website customized for your institution
A full portfolio of robust solutions
Easy setup, implementation and maintenance
Simple ordering and delivery
Technology training
Flexible financing options
Sencilo HealthIT Solutions Professional Services makes it easy.
In addition to providing high-quality technology at a low cost, Sencilo HealthIT Solutions Professional
Services can help you plan your healthcare computing from the ground up. By working with you from the initial construction phases, we can help you save time and money and lead to a truly customized solution.
Sencilo HealthIT Solutions Professional Services offers complete services that include:
Design
Procurement
Installation
Training
Maintenance
Support
About Us
Sencilo HealthIT Solutions is a Florida-based integrator specializing in EHR Cost Cutting storage, security and managed services solutions. Sencilo delivers a comprehensive portfolio of products from best-of-breed hardware and software from multiple manufacturers including Allscripts, VMware, Dell Fujitsu EMC, Hitachi, Symantec, IBM, HP, Cisco, Microsoft, Gateway Sencilo has offices throughout Florida including: Orlando Lake Mary Daytona, Medical City solutions include Security "meaningful use" "meaningful usage" EMC HP IBM Quantum Compliance Gartner Magic Quadrant Quadrent LTO Daytona Beach Deland Melborne Tampa Clearwater, Dragon, Voice Recognition, Dragon Dictation
Network Backup appliance Data Recovery Backup Health IT Healthcare IT Digital Hospital Allscripts Patient Data electronic health record P4P rules and the HITECH Act PayerView Rankings practice management tools $44,000 in Medicare or $66,000 in Medicaid from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act eClinicalWorks, Allscripts, NextGen, GE Centricity, and Meditech Electronic Healthcare IT Medical Records EHR Clinical Practices eClinicalWorks Allscripts Florida EMR, EHR, electronic medical record, health, records, practice management systems solutions, medication services, PHR Otolaryngology, Orthopaedics, Pain Nuerosurgery, Urology, Ophthalmology, Cardiology, Billing, Appointment Scheduling, clinicalworks, eClinicalWorks, solutions for physicians, hospitals, clinical education and medical services Computerized Patient CPR, Order Entry, CPOE, Document Clinical Information Informatics, Computer-based, SOAP, HIT, Healthcare Encounter Forms, web based, online, clinical rules database, electronic prescribing, e-prescribing, eprescribing, athenaClinicals, certified EMR, certified EHR, HITECH Act VAR Reseller Dealer hipaa privacy doctor, healthcare performance management, data security, hosting, arra, free, InterFAX, MyWay, HIPPA, EasyPayMedicare, MedicAID, SureScripts, FNC, billing, superbill iMedica Tiger on Windows, eprescribe pqri simple practice management revenue cycle e-cw e-clinicalworks greenway emds nextgen ge sage athena epic klas Dragon NaturallySpeaking speech recognition Google Health, Microsoft Healthvault Health Internet certified "meaningful use" violations HealthPresence Health Presence Sencilo “transformative” telemedicine medicaid medicare Seminole County Medical Society Orange county Orlando Medical News Trusted Advisor e-Prescription e-Rx CareTracker paperless scanning document storage hippa audits iscribe document scanning fi-6130 fi-6040 CCHIT ARRA surescript
HIPAA AND ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORDS: - June 2, 2010
Orlando Florida --
By KP on Jun 01, 2010 with Comments 0 The many insubordinate thought in a healing jot down gripping make use of is a key of electronic healing annals technology. Earlier, prior to a key of electronic healing annals system, a annals of a patients similar to their personal details, reports, cat-scan reports, indicate reports as good as alternative billing associated report were kept as good as stored manually. Usually jot down books as good as files were used for a same purpose, which in spin done it unfit to entrance during a time of measureless order due to a space immoderate nature. Apart from which due to a miss of correct remoteness law a interpretation with jot down screw many often landed in a palm of an subordinate healing make use of provider, who in spin used these interpretation to sell his products as good as services. Same sort of inequality was additionally found in box of electronic healing annals of which time as well. A correct law in this settle was a need of a hour; differently a make use of of healing jot down gripping would bend to a really bad state of distrust. Finally a HIPA Act was introduced. The Privacy Rule as good as a Final Rule upon Security Standards underneath HIPAA saved a make use of of healing jot down gripping from this evil.
HIPAA or Health Insurance Portability as good as Accountability Act umpire a emanate of remoteness associated to healing annals in US. Health Insurance Portability as good as Accountability Act was introduced in a year 1996 by a US Congress. The Privacy Rule was introduced in a year 2003 underneath Title II (two) of HIPAA. This action regulates a remoteness emanate associated to a PHI. PHI or Protected Health Information is any square of report per a illness status, personal detail, reports, cat-scan reports, billing report of a particular individual. This remoteness order says which a lonesome entities contingency give a PHI upon ask of a endangered particular inside of a time support of a single month or thirty days. The PHI of a particular can be used usually after his authorization. In a incident where a avowal of PHI is compulsory a smallest probable bearing has to be considered. The remoteness order underneath HIPAA additionally needs a endangered entity to have a information exchnage trusted as per a order of a individual. All a paper as good as electronic healing annals used should be told to a particular as per a use. And if any a single feels which his personal confidentiality underneath a Privacy Law has been breached he can record a censure opposite a endangered entity with a Department of Health & Human Services Office for Civil Rights.
HIPAA underneath a Title II (two) covers a confidence order also. The confidence order deals privately with a electronic healing annals systems. The order of confidence was eventually released upon 20th Feb, 2003 which came to outcome upon 21st April, 2003. The correspondence of this confidence law which proposed from 21st April, 2005 compulsory 3 sorts of confidence safeguards. These have been Administrative, Physical as good as Technical. For any of a sort a Security Law lays opposite standards. The executive safeguards have been privately written policies as good as procedures to uncover a correspondence of a endangered entity with a act. The earthy safeguards have been written to strengthen a unapproved inapt earthy entrance to a interpretation which is protected, often a electronic healing records. The technical safeguards have been written to work along a electronic delivery over network by a endangered entity so as to guarantee a entrance to a mechanism systems containing a electronic healing records.
Apart from these concerns, HIPAA additionally covers a total healing as good as illness associated confidence issues with a alternative ultimate acts similar to a HITECH Act in 2009. HITECH stands for Health Information Technology for Economic as good as Clinical Health Act.
Sencilo HealthIT Solutions eHealthcare Architecture: More than technology With Sencilo HealthIT Solutions eHealthcare Architecture, you can leverage the same productivity tools and technology resources that have transformed business. And you get a full portfolio of services too. By working with Sencilo HealthIT Solutions, you can get:
A dedicated customer team
A website customized for your institution
A full portfolio of robust solutions
Easy setup, implementation and maintenance
Simple ordering and delivery
Technology training
Flexible financing options
Sencilo HealthIT Solutions Professional Services makes it easy.
In addition to providing high-quality technology at a low cost, Sencilo HealthIT Solutions Professional
Services can help you plan your healthcare computing from the ground up. By working with you from the initial construction phases, we can help you save time and money and lead to a truly customized solution.
Sencilo HealthIT Solutions Professional Services offers complete services that include:
Design
Procurement
Installation
Training
Maintenance
Support
About Us
Sencilo HealthIT Solutions is a Florida-based integrator specializing in EHR Cost Cutting storage, security and managed services solutions. Sencilo delivers a comprehensive portfolio of products from best-of-breed hardware and software from multiple manufacturers including Allscripts, VMware, Dell Fujitsu EMC, Hitachi, Symantec, IBM, HP, Cisco, Microsoft, Gateway Sencilo has offices throughout Florida including: Orlando Lake Mary Daytona, Medical City solutions include Security "meaningful use" "meaningful usage" EMC HP IBM Quantum Compliance Gartner Magic Quadrant Quadrent LTO Daytona Beach Deland Melborne Tampa Clearwater, Dragon, Voice Recognition, Dragon Dictation
Network Backup appliance Data Recovery Backup Health IT Healthcare IT Digital Hospital Allscripts Patient Data electronic health record P4P rules and the HITECH Act PayerView Rankings practice management tools $44,000 in Medicare or $66,000 in Medicaid from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act eClinicalWorks, Allscripts, NextGen, GE Centricity, and Meditech Electronic Healthcare IT Medical Records EHR Clinical Practices eClinicalWorks Allscripts Florida EMR, EHR, electronic medical record, health, records, practice management systems solutions, medication services, PHR Otolaryngology, Orthopaedics, Pain Nuerosurgery, Urology, Ophthalmology, Cardiology, Billing, Appointment Scheduling, clinicalworks, eClinicalWorks, solutions for physicians, hospitals, clinical education and medical services Computerized Patient CPR, Order Entry, CPOE, Document Clinical Information Informatics, Computer-based, SOAP, HIT, Healthcare Encounter Forms, web based, online, clinical rules database, electronic prescribing, e-prescribing, eprescribing, athenaClinicals, certified EMR, certified EHR, HITECH Act VAR Reseller Dealer hipaa privacy doctor, healthcare performance management, data security, hosting, arra, free, InterFAX, MyWay, HIPPA, EasyPayMedicare, MedicAID, SureScripts, FNC, billing, superbill iMedica Tiger on Windows, eprescribe pqri simple practice management revenue cycle e-cw e-clinicalworks greenway emds nextgen ge sage athena epic klas Dragon NaturallySpeaking speech recognition Google Health, Microsoft Healthvault Health Internet certified "meaningful use" violations HealthPresence Health Presence Sencilo “transformative” telemedicine medicaid medicare Seminole County Medical Society Orange county Orlando Medical News Trusted Advisor e-Prescription e-Rx CareTracker paperless scanning document storage hippa audits iscribe document scanning fi-6130 fi-6040 CCHIT ARRA surescript
Review: Dragon Dictation - May 28, 2010
Orlando Florida --
Speak to your iPad and have it do the typing for you. (May 27th, 2010)
If you want your iPad or iPhone to do your typing for you, the free Dragon Dictation app does just that. You simply launch the app, start to speak, and it saves your voice to a buffer. After about 20 seconds, it processes the speech into text.
MacNN Rating:
Product Manufacturer: Nuance Communications, Inc.
Price: FreeThe Good
Decent dictation if you speak clearly. Plenty of options for exporting processed text. Works with some external mics.
The Bad
No means of saving transcriptions. No buffer fill warning.
What could be more convenient than speaking and have your words appear in your iPad, iPhone, or iPod touch? Dragon Dictation by Nuance accomplishes just this task.
It is very simple to start dictating. When the app opens, your screen appears with a giant Record button and the instructions to tap to record.
Read more: http://www.macnn.com/reviews/dragon-dictation.html#ixzz0pFhEec5V
Sencilo HealthIT Solutions eHealthcare Architecture: More than technology With Sencilo HealthIT Solutions eHealthcare Architecture, you can leverage the same productivity tools and technology resources that have transformed business. And you get a full portfolio of services too. By working with Sencilo HealthIT Solutions, you can get:
A dedicated customer team
A website customized for your institution
A full portfolio of robust solutions
Easy setup, implementation and maintenance
Simple ordering and delivery
Technology training
Flexible financing options
Sencilo HealthIT Solutions Professional Services makes it easy.
In addition to providing high-quality technology at a low cost, Sencilo HealthIT Solutions Professional
Services can help you plan your healthcare computing from the ground up. By working with you from the initial construction phases, we can help you save time and money and lead to a truly customized solution.
Sencilo HealthIT Solutions Professional Services offers complete services that include:
Design
Procurement
Installation
Training
Maintenance
Support
About Us
Sencilo HealthIT Solutions is a Florida-based integrator specializing in EHR Cost Cutting storage, security and managed services solutions. Sencilo delivers a comprehensive portfolio of products from best-of-breed hardware and software from multiple manufacturers including Allscripts, VMware, Dell Fujitsu EMC, Hitachi, Symantec, IBM, HP, Cisco, Microsoft, Gateway Sencilo has offices throughout Florida including: Orlando Lake Mary Daytona, Medical City solutions include Security "meaningful use" "meaningful usage" EMC HP IBM Quantum Compliance Gartner Magic Quadrant Quadrent LTO Daytona Beach Deland Melborne Tampa Clearwater, Dragon, Voice Recognition, Dragon Dictation
Network Backup appliance Data Recovery Backup Health IT Healthcare IT Digital Hospital Allscripts Patient Data electronic health record P4P rules and the HITECH Act PayerView Rankings practice management tools $44,000 in Medicare or $66,000 in Medicaid from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act eClinicalWorks, Allscripts, NextGen, GE Centricity, and Meditech Electronic Healthcare IT Medical Records EHR Clinical Practices eClinicalWorks Allscripts Florida EMR, EHR, electronic medical record, health, records, practice management systems solutions, medication services, PHR Otolaryngology, Orthopaedics, Pain Nuerosurgery, Urology, Ophthalmology, Cardiology, Billing, Appointment Scheduling, clinicalworks, eClinicalWorks, solutions for physicians, hospitals, clinical education and medical services Computerized Patient CPR, Order Entry, CPOE, Document Clinical Information Informatics, Computer-based, SOAP, HIT, Healthcare Encounter Forms, web based, online, clinical rules database, electronic prescribing, e-prescribing, eprescribing, athenaClinicals, certified EMR, certified EHR, HITECH Act VAR Reseller Dealer hipaa privacy doctor, healthcare performance management, data security, hosting, arra, free, InterFAX, MyWay, HIPPA, EasyPayMedicare, MedicAID, SureScripts, FNC, billing, superbill iMedica Tiger on Windows, eprescribe pqri simple practice management revenue cycle e-cw e-clinicalworks greenway emds nextgen ge sage athena epic klas Dragon NaturallySpeaking speech recognition Google Health, Microsoft Healthvault Health Internet certified "meaningful use" violations HealthPresence Health Presence Sencilo “transformative” telemedicine medicaid medicare Seminole County Medical Society Orange county Orlando Medical News Trusted Advisor e-Prescription e-Rx CareTracker paperless scanning document storage hippa audits iscribe document scanning fi-6130 fi-6040 CCHIT ARRA surescript
Speaking up: Dragon finds my voice - May 28, 2010
Orlando Florida --
Using speech recognition while having a predilection for written language has given me a lot of opportunity to think about concepts like “having a voice” and “speaking out.” I will always firmly believe that written communication can be just as powerful as spoken. As I’ve said, I preferred for quite a while to communicate the “heavy stuff” through my hand. It felt more natural and fluent that way; for me, silence is often a feature of language and can enhance my thought process. But sometimes I didn’t choose. I had to — my oral voice was ignored.
It is true that I speak well. It is true that I have quite a lot of words in my head. However, these things don’t mean much if I’m trying to communicate with people who refuse to hear me out. My voice becomes particularly useless when I’m trying to explain how something ableist has harmed me. The minute people interrupt me with, “I was being helpful!” or “You need to understand that whatever I did wasn’t intentional,” I feel like I can’t breathe and my voice shuts off. I’m not proud of this. If I do manage to complete my thought out loud, the other person’s response is often something like, “I’m sorry we had this communication problem. I appreciate your willingness to work on it.” Note the absence of responsibility.
If I absolutely need to say something despite that stifling silence, I retreat to the steady undercurrent of written English, the alphabet arranging itself fiercely in my brain. I have print thoughts, always, even when I have no sound. But sometimes I need sound. In order to tell my side without interruption, I still have to use written English — continuing the conversation in face-to-face speech would waste my breath. But to write, I have to use the same voice that has just been cut off as though worthless. Recently, though, I found that Dragon is damn good at reassuring me that yeah, I still exist.
For the longest time I thought of Dragon as simply an input device, a way of sending keystrokes so that I could have my printed thoughts more easily. Dictation to me was a mechanical process; my voice was not strictly my voice but a tool. I was very much mistaken. While these things are true, they are also incomplete. The other day, as I sat down to write my side of a particularly bad situation, I was startled to realize that my dictating was very much an act of “speaking out” in the asserting or protesting sense, and not just vocalizing.
More than just transcription, dictation is the act of giving alphabetic form to invisible speech. When I began to dictate my indignation and disheartenment, I was only telling the microphone what I would have told the other person if given a chance. The difference was that the other person gave the impression I was invisible or inaudible — that I hadn’t said anything at all. Dragon, however, proved that my voice had actually registered by setting my words down on the screen. I could see them and read them and confirm that yes, that’s what I meant to say. I had a reflection. I was not a ghost. The letters stood out in my head as if to say, I am here.
And so I printed out my side of the conversation. There was nothing on that page to distinguish typing from dictation. And that was as it should be. But I knew — as did the other person, knowing my devices — that my voice was all over that page either way. And now it’s the other person who has fallen silent, perhaps thinking. I can hope.
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A website customized for your institution
A full portfolio of robust solutions
Easy setup, implementation and maintenance
Simple ordering and delivery
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Sencilo HealthIT Solutions is a Florida-based integrator specializing in EHR Cost Cutting storage, security and managed services solutions. Sencilo delivers a comprehensive portfolio of products from best-of-breed hardware and software from multiple manufacturers including Allscripts, VMware, Dell Fujitsu EMC, Hitachi, Symantec, IBM, HP, Cisco, Microsoft, Gateway Sencilo has offices throughout Florida including: Orlando Lake Mary Daytona, Medical City solutions include Security "meaningful use" "meaningful usage" EMC HP IBM Quantum Compliance Gartner Magic Quadrant Quadrent LTO Daytona Beach Deland Melborne Tampa Clearwater, Dragon, Voice Recognition, Dragon Dictation
Network Backup appliance Data Recovery Backup Health IT Healthcare IT Digital Hospital Allscripts Patient Data electronic health record P4P rules and the HITECH Act PayerView Rankings practice management tools $44,000 in Medicare or $66,000 in Medicaid from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act eClinicalWorks, Allscripts, NextGen, GE Centricity, and Meditech Electronic Healthcare IT Medical Records EHR Clinical Practices eClinicalWorks Allscripts Florida EMR, EHR, electronic medical record, health, records, practice management systems solutions, medication services, PHR Otolaryngology, Orthopaedics, Pain Nuerosurgery, Urology, Ophthalmology, Cardiology, Billing, Appointment Scheduling, clinicalworks, eClinicalWorks, solutions for physicians, hospitals, clinical education and medical services Computerized Patient CPR, Order Entry, CPOE, Document Clinical Information Informatics, Computer-based, SOAP, HIT, Healthcare Encounter Forms, web based, online, clinical rules database, electronic prescribing, e-prescribing, eprescribing, athenaClinicals, certified EMR, certified EHR, HITECH Act VAR Reseller Dealer hipaa privacy doctor, healthcare performance management, data security, hosting, arra, free, InterFAX, MyWay, HIPPA, EasyPayMedicare, MedicAID, SureScripts, FNC, billing, superbill iMedica Tiger on Windows, eprescribe pqri simple practice management revenue cycle e-cw e-clinicalworks greenway emds nextgen ge sage athena epic klas Dragon NaturallySpeaking speech recognition Google Health, Microsoft Healthvault Health Internet certified "meaningful use" violations HealthPresence Health Presence Sencilo “transformative” telemedicine medicaid medicare Seminole County Medical Society Orange county Orlando Medical News Trusted Advisor e-Prescription e-Rx CareTracker paperless scanning document storage hippa audits iscribe document scanning fi-6130 fi-6040 CCHIT ARRA surescript
ECM's Role In EHR Meaningful Use - May 28, 2010
Orlando Florida --By Ken Congdon, editor in chief, Healthcare Technology Online
When The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) was passed in February 2009, it provided substantial monetary incentives for healthcare facilities to adopt EHR systems. As a result, several healthcare institutions rushed to search for that one EHR technology that would help them satisfy the elusive meaningful use criteria that would award them those hefty payouts. However, as most came to realize, there is no one magic bullet technology that will allow a healthcare system to achieve meaningful use out of the box. Instead, meaningful use will be achieved through the effective implementation and integration of several sound technology systems and operational processes. One technology that will play a crucial role in EHR meaningful use is ECM. Healthcare Technology Online interviewed several industry experts to gain their insights into the value effective content management will have on today's EHR initiatives.
Sencilo HealthIT Solutions eHealthcare Architecture: More than technology With Sencilo HealthIT Solutions eHealthcare Architecture, you can leverage the same productivity tools and technology resources that have transformed business. And you get a full portfolio of services too. By working with Sencilo HealthIT Solutions, you can get:
A dedicated customer team
A website customized for your institution
A full portfolio of robust solutions
Easy setup, implementation and maintenance
Simple ordering and delivery
Technology training
Flexible financing options
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In addition to providing high-quality technology at a low cost, Sencilo HealthIT Solutions Professional
Services can help you plan your healthcare computing from the ground up. By working with you from the initial construction phases, we can help you save time and money and lead to a truly customized solution.
Sencilo HealthIT Solutions Professional Services offers complete services that include:
Design
Procurement
Installation
Training
Maintenance
Support
About Us
Sencilo HealthIT Solutions is a Florida-based integrator specializing in EHR Cost Cutting storage, security and managed services solutions. Sencilo delivers a comprehensive portfolio of products from best-of-breed hardware and software from multiple manufacturers including Allscripts, VMware, Dell Fujitsu EMC, Hitachi, Symantec, IBM, HP, Cisco, Microsoft, Gateway Sencilo has offices throughout Florida including: Orlando Lake Mary Daytona, Medical City solutions include Security "meaningful use" "meaningful usage" EMC HP IBM Quantum Compliance Gartner Magic Quadrant Quadrent LTO Daytona Beach Deland Melborne Tampa Clearwater, Dragon, Voice Recognition, Dragon Dictation
Network Backup appliance Data Recovery Backup Health IT Healthcare IT Digital Hospital Allscripts Patient Data electronic health record P4P rules and the HITECH Act PayerView Rankings practice management tools $44,000 in Medicare or $66,000 in Medicaid from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act eClinicalWorks, Allscripts, NextGen, GE Centricity, and Meditech Electronic Healthcare IT Medical Records EHR Clinical Practices eClinicalWorks Allscripts Florida EMR, EHR, electronic medical record, health, records, practice management systems solutions, medication services, PHR Otolaryngology, Orthopaedics, Pain Nuerosurgery, Urology, Ophthalmology, Cardiology, Billing, Appointment Scheduling, clinicalworks, eClinicalWorks, solutions for physicians, hospitals, clinical education and medical services Computerized Patient CPR, Order Entry, CPOE, Document Clinical Information Informatics, Computer-based, SOAP, HIT, Healthcare Encounter Forms, web based, online, clinical rules database, electronic prescribing, e-prescribing, eprescribing, athenaClinicals, certified EMR, certified EHR, HITECH Act VAR Reseller Dealer hipaa privacy doctor, healthcare performance management, data security, hosting, arra, free, InterFAX, MyWay, HIPPA, EasyPayMedicare, MedicAID, SureScripts, FNC, billing, superbill iMedica Tiger on Windows, eprescribe pqri simple practice management revenue cycle e-cw e-clinicalworks greenway emds nextgen ge sage athena epic klas Dragon NaturallySpeaking speech recognition Google Health, Microsoft Healthvault Health Internet certified "meaningful use" violations HealthPresence Health Presence Sencilo “transformative” telemedicine medicaid medicare Seminole County Medical Society Orange county Orlando Medical News Trusted Advisor e-Prescription e-Rx CareTracker paperless scanning document storage hippa audits iscribe document scanning fi-6130 fi-6040 CCHIT ARRA surescript
Advancement in Technology and the Changing Landscape of Information Security in Health InformationPosted by: Admin : Category: it security - May 28, 2010
Orlando Florida --The advent of the Electronic Health Record (“EHR”) holds the potential to alter the paradigm of medical care. In this modern age a patient’s information or lab results can be zipped to a Dr.’s phone where he can analyze them instantly. Nurses can enter/retrieve notes and findings on a patient’s emergency room treatment from a nurses’ station, a laptop or a portable device from anywhere in the hospital, rather than waiting for the paper chart to make its tortuous way up several stories to the patient’s room. And, perhaps within the next few years, a patient’s information can be sent anywhere in a matter of seconds.
Yet, these technological advances carry significant challenges in security, as electronic information is subject to loss or alteration to a far greater extent than paper records. HIPAA law, in the form of the Security Rule, addresses some of these issues, in support of the goal of privacy and reliability of electronic health information. The Privacy and Security Rules of HIPAA total almost 1000 pages, and while the legal, administrative and technical protection themes are not complicated, deciphering them and implementing action plans requires HIPAA lawyers to work in tandem with HIPAA consulting entities to prepare policies and procedures which will provide the requisite level of security. This is no small challenge in an age where s two-inch USB, or “thumb” drive can hold thousands of pages of medical information, and can slip from one’s pocket as easily as the change which often turns up under the couch cushions. Moreover, in a world of social networking, it is not uncommon for individuals to do things they wouldn’t normally do in a professional setting forgetting that electronic mediums like the internet make information (sensitive or otherwise) boundless. Once it goes out, it can go anywhere. Facebook, MySpace, and even text messaging are all important considerations with regard to new regulations and Privacy issues.
The HIPAA Security Rule addresses these worries in requiring that Protected Health Information (“PHI”) be encrypted during storage as well as during transmission, in accordance with the principles put in place in a Guidance published by the Department of health and human services during April, 2009. DHHS has been mandated, by the revisions to health insurance portability and accountability act in the HITECH Act, to make periodic “spot audits” of hospitals with regard to privacy and security. Evidently, a hospital ought to obtain its HIPAA lawyers in the facility working on security safeguards way before this kind of an assessment takes place.
HIPAA consulting entities, running with a group comprising IT, Records, Legal in addition to the outside HIPAA lawyers ought to embark upon a healthcare compliance security initiative by assessing existing security technical protections as well as administrative security processes (i.e., how electronic health information is used and transmitted), revising those protocols when needed, as well as teaching the staff on implementation of the new policies and procedures. HIPAA law, in 2010, is one of the key principles of healthcare compliance, and the hospital will accomplish the requisite standard most cost-effectively by commencing bringing together the HIPAA lawyers and health insurance portability and accountability act consulting teams with the hospital stakeholders early enough to realize workable tactics in information security.
Sencilo HealthIT Solutions eHealthcare Architecture: More than technology With Sencilo HealthIT Solutions eHealthcare Architecture, you can leverage the same productivity tools and technology resources that have transformed business. And you get a full portfolio of services too. By working with Sencilo HealthIT Solutions, you can get:
A dedicated customer team
A website customized for your institution
A full portfolio of robust solutions
Easy setup, implementation and maintenance
Simple ordering and delivery
Technology training
Flexible financing options
Sencilo HealthIT Solutions Professional Services makes it easy.
In addition to providing high-quality technology at a low cost, Sencilo HealthIT Solutions Professional
Services can help you plan your healthcare computing from the ground up. By working with you from the initial construction phases, we can help you save time and money and lead to a truly customized solution.
Sencilo HealthIT Solutions Professional Services offers complete services that include:
Design
Procurement
Installation
Training
Maintenance
Support
About Us
Sencilo HealthIT Solutions is a Florida-based integrator specializing in EHR Cost Cutting storage, security and managed services solutions. Sencilo delivers a comprehensive portfolio of products from best-of-breed hardware and software from multiple manufacturers including Allscripts, VMware, Dell Fujitsu EMC, Hitachi, Symantec, IBM, HP, Cisco, Microsoft, Gateway Sencilo has offices throughout Florida including: Orlando Lake Mary Daytona, Medical City solutions include Security "meaningful use" "meaningful usage" EMC HP IBM Quantum Compliance Gartner Magic Quadrant Quadrent LTO Daytona Beach Deland Melborne Tampa Clearwater, Dragon, Voice Recognition, Dragon Dictation
Network Backup appliance Data Recovery Backup Health IT Healthcare IT Digital Hospital Allscripts Patient Data electronic health record P4P rules and the HITECH Act PayerView Rankings practice management tools $44,000 in Medicare or $66,000 in Medicaid from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act eClinicalWorks, Allscripts, NextGen, GE Centricity, and Meditech Electronic Healthcare IT Medical Records EHR Clinical Practices eClinicalWorks Allscripts Florida EMR, EHR, electronic medical record, health, records, practice management systems solutions, medication services, PHR Otolaryngology, Orthopaedics, Pain Nuerosurgery, Urology, Ophthalmology, Cardiology, Billing, Appointment Scheduling, clinicalworks, eClinicalWorks, solutions for physicians, hospitals, clinical education and medical services Computerized Patient CPR, Order Entry, CPOE, Document Clinical Information Informatics, Computer-based, SOAP, HIT, Healthcare Encounter Forms, web based, online, clinical rules database, electronic prescribing, e-prescribing, eprescribing, athenaClinicals, certified EMR, certified EHR, HITECH Act VAR Reseller Dealer hipaa privacy doctor, healthcare performance management, data security, hosting, arra, free, InterFAX, MyWay, HIPPA, EasyPayMedicare, MedicAID, SureScripts, FNC, billing, superbill iMedica Tiger on Windows, eprescribe pqri simple practice management revenue cycle e-cw e-clinicalworks greenway emds nextgen ge sage athena epic klas Dragon NaturallySpeaking speech recognition Google Health, Microsoft Healthvault Health Internet certified "meaningful use" violations HealthPresence Health Presence Sencilo “transformative” telemedicine medicaid medicare Seminole County Medical Society Orange county Orlando Medical News Trusted Advisor e-Prescription e-Rx CareTracker paperless scanning document storage hippa audits iscribe document scanning fi-6130 fi-6040 CCHIT ARRA surescript
IntelliDose chemo management to be integrated into Allscripts EHRs - May 28, 2010
Orlando Florida --Allscripts will integrate IntrinsiQ's IntelliDose chemotherapy management tool into its EHR product suite as a new offering for physician practices.
The Waltham, Mass.-based IntrinsiQ’s IntelliDose calculates and tracks the administration of chemotherapy treatments and will enable Allscripts' multi-specialty and oncology clients to manage oncology patient care workflow, according to the company.
Under the agreement, oncology practices will work with Allscripts account managers to coordinate with implementation and training specialists from the IntelliDose team. Integration of IntelliDose into Allscripts tools will enable Allscripts clients to select the add-on program to navigate patient records across both systems, IntrinsiQ stated.
For more information please call (407) 641-5199 or visit us at: http://www.sencilo.com and let us "Uncomplexify your Information Tecnology"
Why Sencilo HealthIT Solutions
When it comes to your healthcare computing needs, Sencilo HealthIT Solutions's main objective is to provide a turnkey solution
that can essentially sustain itself. When you choose Sencilo HealthIT Solutions, you don't just gain a vendor who provides you
with technology. You get a business partner who walks with you through every step of the process
Sencilo HealthIT Solutions eHealthcare Architecture: More than technology With Sencilo HealthIT Solutions eHealthcare Architecture, you can leverage the same productivity tools and technology resources that have transformed business. And you get a full portfolio of services too. By working with Sencilo HealthIT Solutions, you can get:
A dedicated customer team
A website customized for your institution
A full portfolio of robust solutions
Easy setup, implementation and maintenance
Simple ordering and delivery
Technology training
Flexible financing options
Sencilo HealthIT Solutions Professional Services makes it easy.
In addition to providing high-quality technology at a low cost, Sencilo HealthIT Solutions Professional
Services can help you plan your healthcare computing from the ground up. By working with you from the initial construction phases, we can help you save time and money and lead to a truly customized solution.
Sencilo HealthIT Solutions Professional Services offers complete services that include:
Design
Procurement
Installation
Training
Maintenance
Support
About Us
Sencilo HealthIT Solutions is a Florida-based integrator specializing in EHR Cost Cutting storage, security and managed services solutions. Sencilo delivers a comprehensive portfolio of products from best-of-breed hardware and software from multiple manufacturers including Allscripts, VMware, Dell Fujitsu EMC, Hitachi, Symantec, IBM, HP, Cisco, Microsoft, Gateway Sencilo has offices throughout Florida including: Orlando Lake Mary Daytona, Medical City solutions include Security "meaningful use" "meaningful usage" EMC HP IBM Quantum Compliance Gartner Magic Quadrant Quadrent LTO Daytona Beach Deland Melborne Tampa Clearwater, Dragon, Voice Recognition, Dragon Dictation
Network Backup appliance Data Recovery Backup Health IT Healthcare IT Digital Hospital Allscripts Patient Data electronic health record P4P rules and the HITECH Act PayerView Rankings practice management tools $44,000 in Medicare or $66,000 in Medicaid from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act eClinicalWorks, Allscripts, NextGen, GE Centricity, and Meditech Electronic Healthcare IT Medical Records EHR Clinical Practices eClinicalWorks Allscripts Florida EMR, EHR, electronic medical record, health, records, practice management systems solutions, medication services, PHR Otolaryngology, Orthopaedics, Pain Nuerosurgery, Urology, Ophthalmology, Cardiology, Billing, Appointment Scheduling, clinicalworks, eClinicalWorks, solutions for physicians, hospitals, clinical education and medical services Computerized Patient CPR, Order Entry, CPOE, Document Clinical Information Informatics, Computer-based, SOAP, HIT, Healthcare Encounter Forms, web based, online, clinical rules database, electronic prescribing, e-prescribing, eprescribing, athenaClinicals, certified EMR, certified EHR, HITECH Act VAR Reseller Dealer hipaa privacy doctor, healthcare performance management, data security, hosting, arra, free, InterFAX, MyWay, HIPPA, EasyPayMedicare, MedicAID, SureScripts, FNC, billing, superbill iMedica Tiger on Windows, eprescribe pqri simple practice management revenue cycle e-cw e-clinicalworks greenway emds nextgen ge sage athena epic klas Dragon NaturallySpeaking speech recognition Google Health, Microsoft Healthvault Health Internet certified "meaningful use" violations HealthPresence Health Presence Sencilo “transformative” telemedicine medicaid medicare Seminole County Medical Society Orange county Orlando Medical News Trusted Advisor e-Prescription e-Rx CareTracker paperless scanning document storage hippa audits iscribe document scanning fi-6130 fi-6040 CCHIT ARRA surescript
EHR Software Market Share Analysis - May 28, 2010
Orlando Florida --
Posted on May 14, 2010 at 8:39 am | 17 Comments
Calculating market share for the electronic health record (EHR) market is no easy task. There are over 300 software vendors, many market segments (consider: size of practice served, specialties services, inpatient/outpatient) and very “fuzzy” sources of data.
Nevertheless, the team at Software Advice set out to see what numbers we could pull together. We limited our analysis to the outpatient EHR software market. Moreover, we decided to measure market share based on the number of physicians users, rather than vendor revenue or other metrics. We tried to keep it simple. It’s not.
Number of Doctors Using EHR Software
First, let’s define the total size of the market we are analyzing. Of the approximately 788,000 physicians in the United States, 65% of them work in an outpatient facility or physician’s practice, according to the Bureau of Labor & Statistics. That’s 512,000 possible physicians who are in the outpatient EHR software market.
According to a recent study of office-based physicians released by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 44% of those of 512,000 office-based doctors had adopted either a partial, basic, or fully functional EHR system. That’s 225,000 outpatient doctors using an EHR to some extent. Here’s how EHR adoption breaks down among the total number (512,000) of outpatient physicians in the United States:
Outpatient EHR software adoption, 2009
The CDC defines “partial” EHR systems as those not exclusively used for billing. “Basic” systems include the following functionalities: patient demographic information, patient problem lists, clinical notes, orders for prescriptions, and viewing laboratory and imaging results.
Systems defined by the CDC as “fully functional” include all functionalities of a basic system plus these functionalities: medical history and follow-up, orders for tests, prescription and test orders sent electronically, warnings of drug interactions or contraindications, highlighting of out-of-range test levels, electronic images returned, and reminders for guideline-based interventions.
Outpatient EHR Market Share
So, what EHR software are the 225,000 physicians using? Based on number of physician users, here’s how the market breaks down:
Outpatient EHR software market share by vendor, 2010
Software Advice’s analysis showed that a handful of vendors – Allscripts, Epic, eClinicalWorks NextGen, and GE Centricity – own more than three-quarters of the ambulatory EHR software market. This is a similar trend that other EHR market reports and analysis have noted.
Here is the data Software Advice was able to gather on the top EHR vendors, based on volume of physician users:
Vendor Physician Users Practices Served
Epic 45,000 N.A.
Allscripts 40,000 N.A.
eClinicalWorks 40,000 6,500
GE Centricity 35,000 2,500
NextGen 35,000 2,000
SOAPWare 30,000 8,000
Practice Fusion 18,500 10,000
Eclipsys 11,000 N.A.
Sage Health 10,000 N.A.
Greenway Medical 6,000 1,400
Clarifications, Disclaimers, Footnotes, Contradictions, etc.
As mentioned in the introduction, the EHR software market has many “fuzzy” sources of data. In fact, when all of the physician users are calculated in the table above, the number of physicians using EHRs in the United States is more than 40,000 over what the CDC reported. Clearly, we need to dig into these numbers a bit more.
In most cases, the information was gathered directly from the EHR software vendors. For those vendors that weren’t able to be contacted, publicly reported information was used. In some cases, exact numbers of physicians and practices were available. In some cases, approximations were used by Software Advice and the software vendors (In the case of a discrepancy, please contact us).
Here are a few questions that came up during the research process whose answers would help refine our market share numbers:
•Sage Health. How many of Sage Health’s users are using their Intergy EHR product in conjunction with their practice management software versus those using just Sage’s practice management software, in particular, Medical Manager?
•Allscripts. How many of Allscripts users are still using Misys practice management systems? Like Sage, they have a huge practice management installed base, but not all of those customers are using their advanced EHR systems.
•Epic and NextGen. How many of their users are exclusively outpatient customers? Both of these EHR vendors are meaningful players in the inpatient EHR market. We need to exclude those physicians from our analysis.
•GE Centricity. General Electric didn’t distinguish between physician (MD) users and mid-level providers in their count of users. This would be a helpful distinction to have in this analysis.
•Practice Fusion. Being a free EHR system, it would be important to see how many of Practice Fusion’s EHR users are actively using their software, instead of just kicking the tires on a cool new web-based EHR and “freemium” business model.
For more information please call (407) 641-5199 or visit us at: http://www.sencilo.com and let us "Uncomplexify your Information Tecnology"
Why Sencilo HealthIT Solutions
When it comes to your healthcare computing needs, Sencilo HealthIT Solutions's main objective is to provide a turnkey solution
that can essentially sustain itself. When you choose Sencilo HealthIT Solutions, you don't just gain a vendor who provides you
with technology. You get a business partner who walks with you through every step of the process
Sencilo HealthIT Solutions eHealthcare Architecture: More than technology With Sencilo HealthIT Solutions eHealthcare Architecture, you can leverage the same productivity tools and technology resources that have transformed business. And you get a full portfolio of services too. By working with Sencilo HealthIT Solutions, you can get:
A dedicated customer team
A website customized for your institution
A full portfolio of robust solutions
Easy setup, implementation and maintenance
Simple ordering and delivery
Technology training
Flexible financing options
Sencilo HealthIT Solutions Professional Services makes it easy.
In addition to providing high-quality technology at a low cost, Sencilo HealthIT Solutions Professional
Services can help you plan your healthcare computing from the ground up. By working with you from the initial construction phases, we can help you save time and money and lead to a truly customized solution.
Sencilo HealthIT Solutions Professional Services offers complete services that include:
Design
Procurement
Installation
Training
Maintenance
Support
About Us
Sencilo HealthIT Solutions is a Florida-based integrator specializing in EHR Cost Cutting storage, security and managed services solutions. Sencilo delivers a comprehensive portfolio of products from best-of-breed hardware and software from multiple manufacturers including Allscripts, VMware, Dell Fujitsu EMC, Hitachi, Symantec, IBM, HP, Cisco, Microsoft, Gateway Sencilo has offices throughout Florida including: Orlando Lake Mary Daytona, Medical City solutions include Security "meaningful use" "meaningful usage" EMC HP IBM Quantum Compliance Gartner Magic Quadrant Quadrent LTO Daytona Beach Deland Melborne Tampa Clearwater, Dragon, Voice Recognition, Dragon Dictation
Network Backup appliance Data Recovery Backup Health IT Healthcare IT Digital Hospital Allscripts Patient Data electronic health record P4P rules and the HITECH Act PayerView Rankings practice management tools $44,000 in Medicare or $66,000 in Medicaid from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act eClinicalWorks, Allscripts, NextGen, GE Centricity, and Meditech Electronic Healthcare IT Medical Records EHR Clinical Practices eClinicalWorks Allscripts Florida EMR, EHR, electronic medical record, health, records, practice management systems solutions, medication services, PHR Otolaryngology, Orthopaedics, Pain Nuerosurgery, Urology, Ophthalmology, Cardiology, Billing, Appointment Scheduling, clinicalworks, eClinicalWorks, solutions for physicians, hospitals, clinical education and medical services Computerized Patient CPR, Order Entry, CPOE, Document Clinical Information Informatics, Computer-based, SOAP, HIT, Healthcare Encounter Forms, web based, online, clinical rules database, electronic prescribing, e-prescribing, eprescribing, athenaClinicals, certified EMR, certified EHR, HITECH Act VAR Reseller Dealer hipaa privacy doctor, healthcare performance management, data security, hosting, arra, free, InterFAX, MyWay, HIPPA, EasyPayMedicare, MedicAID, SureScripts, FNC, billing, superbill iMedica Tiger on Windows, eprescribe pqri simple practice management revenue cycle e-cw e-clinicalworks greenway emds nextgen ge sage athena epic klas Dragon NaturallySpeaking speech recognition Google Health, Microsoft Healthvault Health Internet certified "meaningful use" violations HealthPresence Health Presence Sencilo “transformative” telemedicine medicaid medicare Seminole County Medical Society Orange county Orlando Medical News Trusted Advisor e-Prescription e-Rx CareTracker paperless scanning document storage hippa audits iscribe document scanning fi-6130 fi-6040 CCHIT ARRA surescript
