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Informatics: HIMSS10 athenahealth

2010-06-05T16:52:23.600Z

The always entertaining CEO of AthenaHealth, Jonathan Bush, talks to Dr. Eric Fishman at the HISTalk HIMSS10 party. Mr. Bush discusses the significant growth of Athena Healths EHR in the past year. Mr. Bush also mentions AthenaHealths programs to help physicians finance the costs associated with EHR adoption. In closing, Dr. Fishman and Mr. Bush discuss speech recognition and Athenas billing solutions.

Informatics: HIMSS - Practice Fusion - Ryan Howard, CEO

2010-06-05T16:50:04.185Z

At HIMSS10, Dr. Eric Fishman had the opportunity to speak with Ryan Howard, CEO of Practice Fusion. As an EHR product and service completely free to physicians, they review Practice Fusions unique place in the EHR market. Mr. Howard discusses how Practice Fusion evolved out of the need to assist small, cash constrained physician practices in adopting EHR systems. With the Practice Fusion business revenue model, the company is able to provide licensing, training, secure hosting, backup, and support completely free to physicians. Lastly, Mr. Howards talks about Practice Fusions upcoming product launches, such as Chart Share. Chart Share utilizes Practice Fusions complex back-end system to share real time data between physicians, which will be a key interoperability feature.

Informatics: HIMSS10 IBM

2010-06-05T16:47:10.277Z

At HIMSS10, Dr. Fishman had the opportunity to speak with Dan Pelino, General Manager of Healthcare and Life Sciences at IBM. Mr. Pelino explains that IBM is involved in several aspects of Health Information Technology. First, the company has partnered with many EHR vendors to help small practices identify which EHR solution is best for their specific needs, and it can also offer various hosting solutions. Second, IBM has the ability to help practices integrate their EHR system with referral networks. Third, IBM has embarked on a collaborative effort with the American Academy of Family Physicians and the American College of Physicians to implement pilot projects based on the Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH) approach. Mr. Pelino provides an a example of this pilot with the Community Care of North Carolina, which applied the PCMH approach to successfully prevent hospitalizations among asthmatics and saved 150 million dollars in the process. Dr. Fishman and Mr. Pelino close by discussing IBMs involvement in international healthcare systems, specifically the development of an Electronic Health Record system in Denmark.

Medical Informatics: HIT Stimulus Update, Vol. 2 ... Meaningful Use and What Physicians Should and Should Not Focus on Now

2009-06-29T03:02:38.710Z

Meaningful Use is close to being defined by the Federal Government. Physicians should not let any confusion around this term keep them on the sidelines of the HIT decision making process. Physician practices and hospitals should be acting now and determining which HIT solution is best for them. Speaker: Charlie Jarvis, Assistant Vice President, NextGen Healthcare Information Systems, Inc.

Informatics: American College of Cardiology on Health Information Technology

2009-03-28T14:37:37.415Z

Dr James Tcheng, Duke University describes ACC positions on information technology incentives on Health Information Technology (HIT), heart attack, cardiovascular disease, Electronic Record (EHR), Eprescribing, Patient safety and Quality cardiology