Oncology EHR

Promoting Quality & Safety in Oncology Electronic Health Records

A meeting place for oncology professionals, oncology practice managers, and vendors interested in promoting EHR adoption.

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Its been a busy last few weeks in the HIT arena, with policy statements flying left and right from a variety of organizations. Some of the highlights include: The House and Senate are circulating "Dear Colleague" letters to send to CMS to note that…
yesterday
John Cox commented on Douglas Blayney, M.D.'s blog post 'Field trip to see the EPIC EHR in action at Palo Alto Medical Foundation'
Very impressed (but would have expected nothing less from Peter!!).... A couple of comments: I am an old doc. Our office has been on EHR for 30 months. We too, have a computer in every exam room. I quickly found out that using the computer screen (…
on Wednesday
Peter Paul Yu commented on Douglas Blayney, M.D.'s blog post 'Field trip to see the EPIC EHR in action at Palo Alto Medical Foundation'
The patients are very much aware of how the EHR is contributing to their health care because it becomes a focus of interaction, starting from when the medical assistant rooms the patient, pulls up the chart and reconciles the medication list with wh…
March 4
David M. Urbanski, M.D. added a blog post
Well, I got my new Motion C5 freshly delivered from Taiwan, and it rocks! The solid state drive makes booting less tedious, and programs pop up quicker. A Intel Core 2 Duo processor and maximun RAM helps, too. Gone are the days when I go with low en…
February 23

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Jeff Kan

Summary of EHR-Related Events - 3/12/2010

Its been a busy last few weeks in the HIT arena, with policy statements flying left and right from a variety of organizations. Some of the highlights include:


  • The House and Senate are circulating "Dear Colleague" letters to send to CMS to note that hospitals will have a hard time of meeting the proposed rule on meaningful use. Both letters are asking CMS to provide a more flexible set of timelines and conditions. You can see both the House a

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Posted by Jeff Kan on March 12, 2010 at 2:52pm

Douglas Blayney, M.D.

Field trip to see the EPIC EHR in action at Palo Alto Medical Foundation

I arranged to spend last Thursday afternoon with Peter Yu, at his El Camino Real office of the Palo Alto Medical Foundation (PAMF). PAMF has largely implemented EPIC as their EHR, and as Peter and I had an ASCO-related conference call scheduled, I was going to take the call with him and observe his EHR in action. The call was canceled, but he had three patients whom he had set up to see.



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Posted by Douglas Blayney, M.D. on March 2, 2010 at 11:50am — 3 Comments

Robert S. Miller, MD

Keynote address AMIA Annual Symposium November 2009

I finally got around to watching this video, and I think you will enjoy it. It is from the keynote address entitled "Health IT: Hope, Hype, and How to Avoid the Road to Hell" by Dr. Mark Smith, CEO of the California Healthcare Foundation, at the American Medical Informatics Association Annual Symposium in San Francisco in 2009. Dr. Smith does a high-level but thoroughly entertaining and witty overview of the possibilities… Continue

Posted by Robert S. Miller, MD on February 17, 2010 at 2:07pm

Peter Paul Yu

Data exchange and interoperability

this past week, HHS announced that $386 million had been awarded to 40 states to form health information exchanges (HIE). HIE will be responsible for facilitating the transfer of medical information between providers. HIE's, although state based, may come together to form regional exchanges.



This highlights one of the underpinnings of the Administrations's vision for health care reform as well as one of the greatest (hopefully not fatal) fla

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Posted by Peter Paul Yu on February 14, 2010 at 12:25am

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Catalin Gabriel Oprea

Disaster Recovery and EHR design

Dear all, I am quite new in this aria and I have 5 very important questions for you as follows. For a national EHR system including all medical areas in a country where broadband Internet is in the…

Started by Catalin Gabriel Oprea Jan 6.

OncologyEHR Administrator

A spreadsheet to help calculate EHR ROI

At ASCO's EHR Symposium Andrew D. McDonald, FACHE a Principal at PhyBus LLC demonstrated a spreadsheet he uses to help calculate return on investment for Electronic Health Records. I have attached th…

Tagged: benefits, practice, savings, ehr, roi

Started by OncologyEHR Administrator Oct. 9, 2009.

Ajithkumar Puthillath

Stimulus Package and EHR implementation 3 Replies

We are a small group of community oncologists ( 2 currently adding 1 more) and planning to add a EHR to our practice.We are located close to sacramento. Could some one shed more light on the current…

Started by Ajithkumar Puthillath. Last reply by Josh Rice Dec. 3, 2009.

John Cox

Who can afford this?? 7 Replies

From the EHR Symposia, one of the breakout sessions outlined the ‘cost’ of EHR for an oncology practice. The panel members outlined costs of 100K + per doc to install an EHR. Take this number with d…

Started by John Cox. Last reply by Douglas Blayney, M.D. Oct. 15, 2009.

 
 
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