Emergency physician wins national honor for his approach By LYNDA STRINGER / Special Contributor to The Dallas Morning News Ralph W. Kelly’s childhood experiences growing up poor with eight brothers and sisters and little access to medical care instilled in him not only a passion to practice medicine, but also a strong desire to care […]

CHRIS MCGINN Special to the Observer http://www.charlotte.com You’ve had the sniffles for a few days. You are feeling bad, but you don’t want to take the time off work to drive to your doctor’s office and wait for an hour to see him for just 10 minutes. Wouldn’t it be nice to just e-mail him? […]

http://www.it-soar.com The average practice submits half of its codes wrong, while some practices rarely exceed more than one code right out of every five codes. Inexact and inconsistent coding increases the risks of undercharging, overcharging, and post-payment audit. This article outlines evolution of coding from individualistic art towards disciplined and systematic process. It is convenient […]

Wichita Business Journal by Shane T. Farley A pediatric medical group in Virginia has picked Wichita’s Pulse Systems Inc. to automate its medical records. Pediatric Associates of Richmond Inc. chose Pulse’s patient-relationship management software for use at its facilities. A Pulse company official says the deal helps increase the company’s presence in the Virginia market. […]

by Bend Weekly News Sources http://www.bendweekly.com/ Bachelor Butte Internal Medicine, located on Bend’s Westside, is a medical practice that puts many common complaints of doctors’ appointments to rest and improves the patient-doctor relationship. Many of the common reasons patients dislike visiting a doctor’s office are related to how they must spend their time waiting. At […]

http://medinnovationblog.blogspot.com by Richard L. Reece, MD A doctor reader recently responded to one of my blogs, where I spoke of medicine as a market-driven enterprise that must respond to consumers. I used the success of retail-clinics as one example. The reader commented, “Health care is not a traditional market because the consumer feedbacks can take […]

Stanley Feld M.D.,FACP,MACE http://stanleyfeldmdmace.typepad.com/ Physicians have been slow to adopt Electronic Medical Records (EMR) even though most physicians are computer savvy. There are reasons for physicians to be slow adoptors. They are told that the EMR will increase their quality of care. However, quality of care has not been adequately defined by those who proclaim […]

Regina McEnery Plain Dealer Reporter A physician and information science expert at the Cleveland Clinic has broken ranks to oversee the implementation of University Hospitals’ $88 million electronic medical records system. Dr. Holly Miller has been appointed UH’s chief medical information officer. She joined the Clinic in 1999 as director of the clinical Internet systems […]

Healthvision to Interoperate with CCHIT Certified Misys EMR application http://home.businesswire.com Healthvision, a leading healthcare information technology (HIT) solutions provider, today announced a sixth application partner with their e-Health Interoperability Exchange Partnership Program, with the addition of the Misys EMR product. Healthvision’s e-Health Interoperability Exchange Partnership program certifies that partner health IT applications, including EHR, EMR […]