by lwenzlow on December 28, 2008
Guest post from Louis Wenzlow at the Rural WI Health Cooperative:
In discussing Open Source solutions for small hospitals, my focus is not on health information exchange but on hospital EMR implementation, which is where most small hospitals are concentrating their efforts. Two years ago, my group went through a multiple hospital EMR vendor selection process, [...]
by John on December 28, 2008
A recent post on the Health Care Blog begged Washington not to bail out the healthcare industry by funding EMRs across the country. Yep, you read that right – please don’t. However, the author makes a good case for funding innovation over the chaotic, Band-Aid Frankenstein that is our EMR marketplace. To paraphrase, instead of [...]
by John on December 7, 2008
this from Telemedicine and E-Health News:
“The healthcare industry could save nearly $30 billion annually by switching from paper-based business processes to electronic ones, according to a new Healthcare Efficiency Index. The index, launched by Nashville-based revenue cycle management firm Emdeon, notes that the healthcare industry currently saves nearly $24 billion each year [...]