by Austin Merritt 4/5/2010 |
Microsoft Dynamics is largely present in just about every software market but medical. And they’re missing out big time. The United States healthcare IT market is growing at about 13% per year and is expected to reach $35 billion in 20111. The biggest opportunity for growth in the industry is among ambulatory care physician practices, partly due to the Stimulus Bill requiring the use of EHR software. More …
by Chris Thorman 2/4/2010 |
Last week, during the fever pitch surrounding the announcement of Apple’s iPad tablet, Software Advice surveyed 178 physicians, nurses, medical students and healthcare IT professionals about what the healthcare industry’s ideal tablet would look like. This isn’t our first time talking tablets and healthcare. In April of last year, we wondered if the Apple tablet would become the ideal device to run electronic health record (EHR) More …
by Guest Blogger 12/22/2009 |
We talk with hundreds of physician practices each month. Their biggest question: “What does the economic stimulus package mean for me?”
Practices understand that up to $45 billion is allocated to provide incentive for physicians to adopt EHRs. However, many questions remain about how and when providers will receive stimulus More …
by Houston Neal 10/27/2009 |
October 30th marked the close of the first reporting period for grants, loans and contracts awarded under the Recovery Act. If you don’t already know, healthcare is one of the industries eligible to receive funds (Read, The Stimulus Bill and Meaningful Use of Qualified EHRs / EMRs).
At Software Advice, we have noticed a big jump in the number of medical practices researching More …
by Chris Thorman 9/22/2009 |
In case you haven’t heard (or aren’t obsessively following IT trends like we are), the great trend in software is the evolution from traditional “on-premises” software (e.g. client/server software installed at the office) to Software as a Service (SaaS) (i.e. web-based applications that are managed in the vendors’ data center and accessed “on-demand” through a web browser).
Given what’s at stake for software companies in either camp, debating the merits of each model has led to some fiery discourse. We thought we’d fan the flames by introducing another angle: which model is “greener;” that is, better for the environment. More …
by Chris Thorman 7/30/2009 |
Last week, Software Advice set out to try to answer the question: Which smartphone will own the healthcare market?
Doctors, nurses, students and many others in the healthcare industry responded to our survey and provided results that are bound to be conversation starters.
Which smartphone won out? Read through our results to see. More …
by Chris Thorman 7/21/2009 |
The smartphone industry is on fire. iPhone, Blackberry, Palm Pre and Google are all in the hunt for dominance. We want to know one thing: Which phone will become the device of choice for healthcare providers?
Please take our short survey and forward it on to your friends and colleagues. If you’d like to be notified by e-mail about our survey results, please enter your e-mail address in the form More …
by Chris Thorman 6/30/2009 |
As evidenced by Twitter’s front-and-center role in the “Second Iranian Revolution,” the micro-blogging tool has emerged as a serious communication channel. At Software Advice, we think Twitter is every bit as relevant in medicine as it is in politics, business and personal communications.
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by Houston Neal 5/21/2009 |
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (the ARRA, also known as the Stimulus Bill) allocates $51 billion to healthcare. Universities that want to establish and/or expand health informatics programs are entitled stimulus bill funds. But what’s available? Who qualifies? And how can universities take advantage of the More …
by Don Fornes 3/31/2009 |
The Wal-Mart / eClinicalWorks (eCW) partnership to sell electronic medical records (EMR) software in Sam’s Club strikes us as an odd couple. While we think eCW will benefit from this marketing coup, we don’t see the relationship lasting over the long term.
Certainly, the intent is good: simplify a traditionally complex and expensive purchase by distributing More …
by Austin Merritt 3/12/2009 |
With the Economic Stimulus Bill signed and available to subsidize EHR purchases (for more information see “The Stimulus Bill and Meaningful Use of Qualified EHRs/EMRs“), we are seeing a dramatic increase in electronic health records (EHR) buyer interest. Assuming these buyers make use of the stimulus subsidy to buy an EHR, we expect to see a lot of EHR failures over the next couple More …
by Houston Neal 12/5/2008 |
Why are some physicians still fearful of web-based electronic medical records (EMRs) when most of them are comfortable using web banking and e-commerce sites?
Many physicians allow all of their personal financial information to be transmitted over the Internet – including actionable credit card data – but fear using the same methods for managing their patient More …
by Don Fornes 11/14/2008 |
Over the past couple of years, we’ve noticed a marked change in medical office’s views on the web-based, or Software as a Service (SaaS), model of using EMR and practice management systems. Among practices looking for new software, we’ve More …
by Houston Neal 11/14/2008 |
Should you implement an EMR or an EHR? Do you know the difference? Is there a difference?
In theory, and by definition, there is a difference and it should play into any provider’s clinical software selection. At the same time, marketing messages and technical terminology have clouded provider’s understanding of the two software More …
by Houston Neal 4/11/2008 |
As a physician, you earned an MD, but probably not an MBA. But in today’s health care environment you have to run your practice like a business in addition to providing great patient care. It’s critical to have efficient staffing, minimize costs and maximize your reimbursements and collections. Here we present five ways in which an electronic medical record (EMR) can help you achieve these goals.
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