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ONC Google Plus Hangout Hosted by Doug Fridsma

Looks like the government has chosen Google Plus as the best platform to be able to reach out and stay in touch with the larger community. I just read that Obama will be doing a Google+ hangout a few days after the State of the Union address. In similar fashion, today Doug Fridsma from ONC hosted a Google Plus Hangout discussing some of the projects that ONC is participating in. Plus, the beautiful part of a Google Hangout by ONC is that it’s automatically recorded and published to YouTube. So, if you missed the hangout, you can watch the ONC Hangout video embedded below.

Here’s who participated on the ONC Hangout:
Doug Fridsma, M.D., Ph.D. – Chief Scientist at ONC
Arien Malec – VP Strategy and Product Marketing at RelayHealth, Former Coordinator for the Direct Project
Deven McGraw – Director of the Health Privacy Project at CDT
John Moehrke – Principal Engineer: Interoperability and Security at GE
Vince Kuraitis – Principal, Better Health Technologies, LLC
Brian Ahier – Health IT Evangelist
John Travis – Senior Director and Solution Strategist, Regulatory Compliance at Cerner
Alice Leiter – Policy Counsel at Center for Democracy & Technology

Turns out that I’m actually planning my first Google+ hangout as well with some of the people from HIMSS. Watch for more details on that soon.

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February 12, 2013 I Written By John Lynn

John Lynn is the Founder of the HealthcareScene.com blog network which currently consists of 15 blogs containing almost 5000 articles with John having written over 2000 of the articles himself. These EMR and Healthcare IT related articles have been viewed over 9.3 million times. John also recently launched two new companies: InfluentialNetworks.com and Physia.com, and is an advisor to docBeat. John is highly involved in social media, and in addition to his blogs can also be found on Twitter: @techguy and @ehrandhit.

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Tips for Physicians to Improve Their EHR Documentation for Coding

During the last AHIMA, I sat down with Dr. Jon Elion, Founder and CEO of ChartWise Medical Systems and asked him about how a physician can improve their EHR documentation so that it matches the needs of medical coders better. In the following video, he offers a couple simple tips on how a physician can do this easily.

Considering ICD-10 is just around the corner, I thought many would find these tips interesting and useful.

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February 1, 2013 I Written By John Lynn

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Blausen Google Chrome Extension for Health Information

A while back, I suggested that EHR vendors might want to integrate Google Search into their EHR. I still think this is a really interesting idea since I’m sure that many are doing Google Searches regularly as part of the care they provide.

While I’m sure that many doctors use Google searches in their care, I was really intrigued by a demo video I saw of the Blausen Google Chrome extension. Rather than try and explain it, you can watch the video demo:

This is a really fascinating product and a simple way to distribute the content that Blausen has available in their library. While the Google Chrome extension is interesting, I could see something similar easily added to an EHR interface.

Imagine a doctor wanting to show a video demonstrating something to their patient. Straight from their EHR, they could pull up the Blausen video and show the patient in a really rich way something about their condition.

Of course, we’re just at the start of what could be done with great visual education like this. Over time I’m sure we’ll be able to get to very specific parts of a video or pieces of education. We’ll be able to publish the educational information you saw in the office in your patient portal. Not only does that reinforce what was said in the office, but it also provides patients a great way to share what’s going on with their loved ones.

I know Force Therapeutics is doing work like this with videos for Physical Therapists and Orthopedics. I think we’re going to see a lot more video integration into our patient care over the next couple years and that’s a very good thing.

What Are the Problems with EMR Documentation Today?

While at AHIMA 2012, I asked Susan Sumner, Executive Vice President of Ambulatory Services at Accentus Inc. about some of the problems with EMR documentation today. Here’s her video answer with her views on narrative EMR documentation vs point and click EMR documentation:

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October 29, 2012 I Written By John Lynn

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EHR Upcoding, Meaningful Use Stage 2, Interoperability, EHR Consolidation, and ACOs Video – Burning Topics with Dr. Nick

I recently sat down with Dr. Nick van Terheyden, CMIO of Nuance to talk about some of the Burning Health IT topics. In the following video Dr. Nick and I talk about EHR Upcoding, Meaningful Use Stage 2, Interoperability, EHR Consolidation, and ACOs. Enjoy and I hope you’ll extend our conversation in the comments.

Changes in Clinical Documentation

While at AHIMA 2012, I had a chance to sit down with Dr. Jon Elion, Founder and CEO of ChartWise Medical Systems. I asked him about the changes in clinical documentation he’s seeing and I grabbed a video of his answer below. His answer was an interesting and insightful look into clinical documentation and ways that coding is effecting the clinical documentation.

I find Dr. Elion’s answer quite interesting in the terms of using clinical documentation intelligence in EHR. Add in things like coding engines, NLP, and EMR templates and you can see why getting the documentation right is a challenge even in an IT optimized world.

Dr. Nick, CMIO of Nuance Talks About Their Acquisition of Quantim and J.A. Thomas & Associates

While at AHIMA 2012, I had a chance to sit down with Dr. Nick van Terheyden, CMIO of Nuance Communications, to learn a little bit more about the recent Nuance acquisitions of Quantim (HIM division of QuadraMed) and J.A. Thomas & Associates. I asked Dr. Nick to describe how these acquisitions will fit into Nuances portfolio in the following video.