Patient Advocate, Multiple Screens, EHR Consolidation, and EMR Happening

We’re in the middle of the dog days of summer. I can see the Fall Conference slam around the corner as I plan my various itineraries. Plus, my children just found out who their teachers will be this Fall. So, Fall is just around the corner. In the 110 degree heat of Las Vegas, that’s a very good thing. It’s always hot in the summer in Las Vegas, but this is really hot.

Enough with the digressions. Time to take a quick look at some of the interesting EMR and health IT tweets.

Ariana Markle ‏@GoldAtlantis
Dying for Data: Comprehensive #EMR systems promise to save lives and cut #healthcare costs –but how do you build it? http://spectrum.ieee.org/biomedical/diagnostics/dying-for-data

The article linked in this tweet is really interesting. It starts with a really compelling story. Something that the patient advocates will love if they haven’t seen it already. The problem is that EMR implementation on its own still doesn’t solve the problem that’s described in the story. The real solution is some sort of HIE or portability of patient data. EHR is one step towards that, but is still far away from that state of healthcare portability nirvana.


Nice to see a doctor who loves his EMR. Even better than a 27″ screen in most cases is dual monitors. I can’t imagine life without dual monitors. I’m not sure why doctors do without it as well.


I just don’t agree with all the people talking about widespread EHR consolidation. Here’s a great quote from the article that actually supports the lack of EHR consolidation as well:

Ironically, according to Mercom Capital Group roughly $150m in venture capital has been poured into the EMR/EHR market in the last 18 months, pointing to continued confidence (or overconfidence!) in this space.

It’s not ironic. We’re in the golden age of EHR. We won’t see many folding up shop for quite a while.


The core thing for me in this tweet is that EMR is happening. Doctors can continue to resist, but EMR is going to happen. It was temporarily delayed while doctors waited for meaningful use. Now, many are going after the EHR incentive money. Eventually doctors won’t know life without an EMR.

About the author

John Lynn

John Lynn is the Founder of HealthcareScene.com, a network of leading Healthcare IT resources. The flagship blog, Healthcare IT Today, contains over 13,000 articles with over half of the articles written by John. These EMR and Healthcare IT related articles have been viewed over 20 million times.

John manages Healthcare IT Central, the leading career Health IT job board. He also organizes the first of its kind conference and community focused on healthcare marketing, Healthcare and IT Marketing Conference, and a healthcare IT conference, EXPO.health, focused on practical healthcare IT innovation. John is an advisor to multiple healthcare IT companies. John is highly involved in social media, and in addition to his blogs can be found on Twitter: @techguy.

   

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