Over the past couple of weeks I’ve been living with the ARRA (the “Stimulus Act- we’d best get used to another new acronym.) There are plenty of good resources available to bone up on the provisions. As Neal suggests, the HIMSS summary is excellent. If you’re really...
During the GE Healthcare national user conference in Washington this August, the keynote speaker for the Executive Forum was former senator Tom Daschle. You may have noticed his name in the news recently, so I went back and took a look at some of the notes I'd...
Voice recognition or Speech recognition (also known as automatic speech recognition or computer speech recognition) converts spoken words to machine-readable input. Digital dictation is a method of recording and editing spoken word in real-time within a digital audio...
Of course not. We all know that theNational Patient Identifier is the mark of the Beast. ICD-10 is just a pain in the butt. I read an interesting blog posting by Richard Elmore recently. He provided an example of how trying to replicate a common, super-bill-friendly...
I’m writing from the second annual RHIOhio conference at OhioUniversity in Athens, Ohio. Brian Phillips, the CIO of the Ohio University College of Osteopathic Medicine has taken on the task of organizing this conference the past two years, and has put together a very...
The massive 200 mile wide Hurricane IKE devastated coastal Texas and caused major damage inland as far as the Great Lakes. Millions of people are still feeling the effects of IKE as they struggle back to normal life. My personal post IKE experience includes; 6...
I recently had a discussion regarding the differences between 1.5T and 3T MRI systems. Of course there are obvious differences such as; cost, magnet strength and core qualities but where is the value add and benefits in implementing a 3T MRI verses a high end 1.5T...
I returned on Friday from the Allscripts national user conference in Chicago. They call it “ACE”- the “Allscripts Client Experience”. Last time I wrote about some of the keynote speakers and offered some thoughts on where the company is on their V11 journey. Here are...
I arrived late Monday night in Chicago to attend the Allscripts national user conference. Allscripts calls their soirée “ACE” for the “Allscripts Client Experience.” If you heard anything about the incredible series of storms that hit the Chicago metro area (leading...
Last night I had dinner with an old high school friend who is a Pathologist. We enjoyed the best steaks and seafood in Texas (Willie G’s) and discussed everything from old high school memories to improvements in Immunohistochemistry, Clinical Imaging and PACS. As he...
OK, so I know that it’s been a little while since I posted anything. The last few weeks have been action-packed. Between finalizing a decision on PACS, beginning implementation, lining up additional resources to help, and other various projects and initiatives, lately...
The demand for images and information has grown well beyond the traditional PACS workstation. In the endless pursuit of anytime - anywhere images and information, healthcare and technology vendors have taken us from viewing radiology images on bulky 80 lb CRT monitors...
