Comments on: EMR Vendor Executives on Meaningful Use and Certification Requirements – Part One of a Series http://www.histalkpractice.com/2010/01/12/emr-vendor-executives-on-meaningful-use-and-certification-requirements-part-one-of-a-series/ Physician practice and systems news and opinion Wed, 08 Sep 2010 16:13:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Nick Orlowski http://www.histalkpractice.com/2010/01/12/emr-vendor-executives-on-meaningful-use-and-certification-requirements-part-one-of-a-series/comment-page-1/#comment-980 Nick Orlowski Fri, 22 Jan 2010 16:02:12 +0000 http://www.histalkpractice.com/?p=1538#comment-980 My provider client is focused on workflow improvement and patient safety and is effectively ignoring the meaningful use guidelines. We take interoperability as a given when electronic records are involved. As a programmer, I know that implementing an HL7 interface (if you have organized your application correctly) is not a daunting task. We are working very closely together to develop our Ankhos software for his practice and the only meaningful use we are worried about is the ACTUAL use in his office. Like many others, he has some strong feelings against MU My provider client is focused on workflow improvement and patient safety and is effectively ignoring the meaningful use guidelines. We take interoperability as a given when electronic records are involved.

As a programmer, I know that implementing an HL7 interface (if you have organized your application correctly) is not a daunting task. We are working very closely together to develop our Ankhos software for his practice and the only meaningful use we are worried about is the ACTUAL use in his office.

Like many others, he has some strong feelings against MU

]]> By: Gregg Alexander http://www.histalkpractice.com/2010/01/12/emr-vendor-executives-on-meaningful-use-and-certification-requirements-part-one-of-a-series/comment-page-1/#comment-965 Gregg Alexander Wed, 13 Jan 2010 13:20:47 +0000 http://www.histalkpractice.com/?p=1538#comment-965 Re: Evan Steele’s last paragraph and Pandora’s box note - Could not agree more, except perhaps to extend the “extremely burdensome” costs considered as not only financial, but also temporal and operational. In our little office, the greatest bane is workflow adjustment. There are just so many hours in a day and, functionally, our primary focus during most of them is to care for patients, not figure out how to enter data, collect stats, tweak templates, and distibute meaningfully to the cloud. Re: Evan Steele’s last paragraph and Pandora’s box note – Could not agree more, except perhaps to extend the “extremely burdensome” costs considered as not only financial, but also temporal and operational. In our little office, the greatest bane is workflow adjustment. There are just so many hours in a day and, functionally, our primary focus during most of them is to care for patients, not figure out how to enter data, collect stats, tweak templates, and distibute meaningfully to the cloud.

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