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WalMart Health Care Expands

by francine 03.10.2009

So today the New York Times ran a story about WalMart’s foray into electronic health records. According to WalMart, they are going to bundle a Dell laptop, software, installation and maintenance for $25,000 and sell this package in WalMart stores. This tells me they don’t know ONE SINGLE THING about what is stopping physicians from [...]

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The Stimulus and EHRS

by francine 02.27.2009

A sales rep from Allscripts has sent around the following information about what the stimulus plan will do to incentivize the deployment of electronic health records.  I’ve long been of the opinion that they will only happen if the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) mandates them. That’s what happened with electronic claims processing. [...]

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Health Care IT: What’s Good for Consumers? What’s Government’s Role?

by kflanagan 02.06.2009

There have been a lot of conversations on Health Care IT topics; specifically, Electronic Medical Records and related things, recently the conversation has come to a number of places that have caught my attention. These sites have perspectives that I find interesting, some have been directly involved with Health Care IT, some less so, all [...]

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Don’t Let Lobbyists Automate the Health Care System!

by francine 02.03.2009

I’m beginning to think we need to stop Obama from implementing electronic health records. I didn’t always feel this way. I’m sitting in a meeting with a doctor friend of mine who is now working for a clinic that uses GE Centricity.This man, a D.O. with a master’s degree in medical informatics, is telling horror [...]

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