Archive for August, 2009
EMR Reform: A Plan to Spur Adoption
A free market is the most powerful economic force on earth. According to Adam Smith’s The Wealth of Nations, this is because free markets let people make informed purchase decisions based on how products further their own interests. If left to operate without interference, a truly free market rewards products that consumers deem superior, and [...]
As Promised, Your Voice Was Heard
At Friday’s HIT Policy Committee meeting, SRSsoft Vice President of Government Affairs, Lynn Scheps, presented the Voice of the Physician petition to David Blumenthal, M.D., National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, and to each member of the committee (see pictures below). Lynn went to Washington, D.C., to make sure that the decision-makers heard your voice [...]
Is Your EMR Consultant Up to Speed?
Consultants have always had their hands full trying to juggle the wide variety of practice-management questions that their clients have thrown at them. Now, their jobs have become even more complicated. Faced with the challenges of the government’s EMR incentive program, practices are looking to consultants for guidance on that complex topic as well. Given [...]
It’s Not a Gucci!
The history of the EMR has demonstrated that ignoring the voice of the physician has costly ramifications. I hate to watch the government now make the same mistake developing the regulations for the EHR incentives.
Let’s look at how money has been wasted in the development of traditional EMRs. Vendors to this day are squandering precious [...]
