Are These 3 Objectives On Your Radar for 2012?
December 23, 2011 – No matter where you sit along the healthcare spectrum, 2012 will bring plenty of opportunity – and plenty of change. Here are three objectives many hospitals are pursuing this year…
Front-End CDI Should Be Core to Your Electronic Documentation Workflow
November 25, 2011 – Without a doubt, electronic documentation has significantly changed the working life of CDI specialists. But the migration from paper to electrons has not marginalized the value of CDI specialists. More than ever, an effective CDI program is integral to developing a successful electronic documentation workflow…
Can HL7 CDA Revolutionize the EMR for Physicians?
October 24, 2011 – As the exchange standard for clinical documentation, HL7 CDA specifies that every electronic note can discretely carry a wealth of patient, provider and encounter data optimized for use in the EMR – regardless of whether the user-facing portion of that document is structured or unstructured. In other words, any clinical document can be partly or wholly comprised of narrative; HL7 CDA ensures its contents are tagged to identify a rich level of data…
Has Clinical Documentation Become a Victim of its Own Popularity?
September 6, 2011 – Industry-wide physician adoption of hospital EMR systems continues to fall short of expectations. For many users, the source of frustration is the clinical documentation system they’re asked to use. In theory, these tools are designed to make physicians’ lives easier. But too many documentation systems compromise the usability of the EMR for its most important users…
What Our Users Say About Salar: Larry Rosenthal, MD, UMass Memorial Health Care
August 23, 2011 – We love it when our physician users take the time to talk about how Salar has helped improve their workflow. In this video, Larry Rosenthal, MD, director of cardiac pacing and electrophysiology at UMass Memorial Health Care, describes why he likes using Salar’s TeamNotes:
Party Like it’s 2013: Three Sobering ICD-10 Workflow Realities – and Three Ways to Address Them Now
July 6, 2011 – In October 2013, the ICD-10 diagnostic code set will officially replace ICD-9 for all billing claims submitted by providers. With nearly ten times the number of codes as its predecessor – and every code itself growing to a longer, alphanumeric format – ICD-10 will require exponentially greater detail to be entered into every patient record and every physician and hospital bill…
Easing the Tension of Physician Documentation
May 12, 2011 – How much structure should your physician documentation include? It’s a question CMIOs, CIOs and other hospital IT leaders wrestle with every day. You already know the answer: “It depends on my CDI tool.”…
Musings on a Broken System
April 12, 2011 – I spend a fair amount of time travelling the country and observing different hospitals and physician practices. As with any industry sector a lot of variation in the prosperity…
The Health Story Project: Building a case for point solutions
October 28th, 2010 – In this blog, we have spoken often of achieving physician adoption when implementing EMR technologies and the importance of finding solutions that capture…
Dear Physicians
January 6, 2010 – We get it. We know why 98% of you have yet to embrace inpatient electronic documentation. It’s about your time. You are getting paid less for it, and you have more patients to see every day…