EHR

We sit down with Tom Giannulli, MD, CMIO at Epocrates, to demo Epocrates' new iPad EHR, one of only a handful of dedicated iPad EHR offerings at HIMSS12. Dr Giannuli walks us through some of the EHR screens, explains how physician practices can begin using the EHR, and tells us how the Epocrates EHR will help physicians meet meaningful use requirements.

In this video, Karen Farrell, Director of Computer-Assisted Physician Documentation (CAPD) at Nuance Healthcare, gives us a closer look at two Clinical Language Understanding (CLU) products announced at HIMSS12.

The iMPak Health Journal, announced on Wednesday at HIMSS12, is a wireless device used to transmit electronic health information. Part of a growing market of mHealth technology, the journal has an easy-to-use interface designed for patients who may not be comfortable with technology or desktop computing. The journal allows patients to transmit important health information related to pain management and wellness to both their family members and healthcare providers.

We sit down with Brantley Whittington, president of EHR vendor Extormity, provider of the world's most expensive, exasperating, and exhausting electronic health record. Mr. Whittington talks about HIMSS12 trends, the rising costs of HIT, and why he's lobbying for a stage 4 and 5 meaningful use within the next 24 months.

While there has been much talk in healthcare about using information technology on the clinical end to build an interoperable industry, the financial side of healthcare has been given short shrift.

The Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) and American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) have introduced a free online tool, the ICD-10 Critical Pathway for Getting Started -- 2012 and Beyond for use by providers who have not yet begun preparing for ICD-10.

You want irony? Try this: the Kaiser Family Foundation reports that we women are the ones who make the health care choices for the kids in 8 out of 10 families. Yet women are far and away the minority gender in the world of health IT leaders. While this is by no means the definitive list, I’ve done some research on the women who ARE making their mark in HIT.

Usability is one of the major barriers for health IT adoption, particularly for electronic health records. It was no surprise then that a capacity number of attendees took on the challenge of working through various usability research methods in the workshop Usability 101: Applied Methods.

Officials at the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) said Friday they plan to urge the Department of Health and Human Services' (HHS) for no ICD-10 delay.

One of the biggest objections to the adoption of an EMR is its usability (or lack thereof), which is no surprise considering the ease of its predecessor: paper. Thankfully, there are a few ways to make your system not only more bearable, but significantly easier to use.