- According to Modern Healthcare magazine, here are the most popular Electronic Health Records (EHR) software systems for acute care facilities:
- Meditech of Westwood, MA, has 26.6% of market
- McKesson of Alpharetta, GA has 14.1% of market
- Cerner of Kansas City, MO has 12.6% of market
- Siemens of Malvern, PA (HQ in Germany) has 9.5% of market
- CPSI of Mobile, AL has 7.9% of market
- Epic Systems of Verona (Madison), WI has 6% of market
- Eclipsys of Boca Raton, FL has 5.5% of market
- Healthcare Management Systems of Nashville, TN has 5.3% of market
- Healthland of Glenwood, MN has 3.8% of market
- 8% of hospitals surveyed have developed their own proprietary systems
- At the upcoming Healthcare Information & Management Systems Society (HIMSS) show on 2/1-4/2010 in Atlanta, GA, the following companies will have trade show booths:
- AthenaHealth, who offers physician billing, practice management and EHR
- Liberty Solutions Inc., a dealer for Cerner, Allscripts, Siemens, Epic, Eclipsys, Meditech & McKesson
- Ambir Technology, maker of card scanners
- Axolotl, maker of Elysium Exchange solutions
- Computer Discount Warehouse (CDW) Healthcare division
- ClearWave Inc., authentication kiosk manufacturer
- Emdeon, payment cycle solutions provider
- InterSystems, maker of Cache’ database software and DeepSee business intelligence software
- NextGen Healthcare, provider of EHR
- Sage Inc., provider of EHR
- SSI Group, provider of claims processing solutions
- Sunquest Information Systems, provider of diagnostic information technology solutions
- Wellsoft, provider of EDIS patient tracking and clinical documentation solutions
- According to HIMSS, about 23% of all data security breaches of healthcare institutions are caused by an employee.
- Joy Pritts, a lawyer from Georgetown University, was named the Chief Privacy Officer for the Health & Human Services (HHS) Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, as part of the American Recovery & Reinvestment Act (ARRA). Under the new law/stimulus bill, she will advise on the data security of healthcare agencies using Electronic Health Records (EHR) systems.
- When implementing Electronic Health Records (EHR) systems, requirements that must be addressed include:
- Capturing admission forms, ID and insurance cards
- Scanning patient records
- Transmitting lab instructions
- Filing insurance claim forms (CMS-1500 & UB-04)
- Processing EOB forms
- Processing supplier invoices
- Meeting FDA and other regulatory obligations
- Complying with record retention policies and privacy regulations (HIPAA laws)
- Allowing doctors and administrators simultaneous access to patient clinical records while controlling varying levels of security
- Incorporating Xrays, EKGs, MRIs, test results and supplemental documents with patient records
- Providing access to patient records from remote locations to prescribe treatment
- According to Khaled El Emam, a professor at University of Ottawa, up to 15% of healthcare insurance claims in the U.S. are fraudulent. In New York, alone up there is up to $4 billion in Medicare/Medicaid fraud.
- In the ARRA act, the current rules for healthcare providers to get stimulus funds, includes three requirements as part of the “meaningful use” rules, labeled as “core measures”:
- requirement to record whether a patient uses tobacco
- requirement to record blood pressure
- requirement to record the percentage of elderly patients who receive either one or two prescription drugs deemed to be of “high risk” to the elderly
- Customer confused to difference between EMR (electronic medical records) and EHR (electronic health records)?
- EMR is an umbrella, includes EHR, and encompasses electronically born records as well as paper records
- EHR is roughly 60-75% of patient information, born electronically
- The Justice Department has requested a $2 million budget increase so it can hire 12 attorneys for electronic discovery support.
- Data from recent survey of businesses that use third party managed IT services (MSP) conducted by Ziff Davis:
- Ability of MSPs to exceed customer expectations
- Mean Time Between Failure = 25%
- Systems Uptime = 25%
- Overall Quality = 20%
- Contribution to Meeting Company Business Goals = 16%
- PC Maintenance Expenses = 14%
- Most Common MSP Task Performed:
- AntiVirus = 91%
- Data Backup = 89%
- Help Desk = 72%
- MS Windows patches = 71%
- Remote Admin = 71%
- Systems Monitoring = 68%
- PC Audits = 38%
- PC Discovery = 21%
- Number one reason why MSP fails to sign up a client is when MSP sales rep calls on IT Mgr. instead of CFO, as the IT Mgr. views the MSP as a threat to their job
- THINKstrategies research published results of survey regarding usage of MSPs (managed IT service provider):
- 30% of companies with revenues of $50 million or less are using MSPs
- 55% of companies with revenues over $50 million are using MSPs
- 52% of SMBs (small to medium sized businesses) are NOT considering using MSPs
- Lenovo, which is headquartered in China, and purchased the personal computer division of IBM, announced that it will launch a managed IT services division in 2010.
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