March 14, 2013
In February 2013, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ ) released the children’s EHR format. Authorized in 2009 by the children’s health insurance program reauthorization act (CHIPRA) and developed by AHRQ and the centers for Medicare and Medicaid services (CMS), the format highlights critical elements of any EHR being used for pediatric care.
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January 09, 2013
2012 was also a great year for our blog. We saw increased views, as well as an increase in the average time spent on each post. We're working hard to make this space an engaging, informative and, hopefully, entertaining resource for those of you interested in health care, health IT or our company. Thank you for reading!
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October 01, 2012
On Mar. 27, 2007, Casa Grande Regional Medical Center (CGRMC) solidified our partnership with Cerner to implement an electronic health record (EHR), after more than a year of development work, with 15 solutions. At that time, this was the single biggest change that the facility had experienced in its twenty-three year history. Going paperless has had many advantages, but the most valuable has been to our patients.
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September 18, 2012
Last week, Clay Patterson shared his thoughts on the recent Consumer Health IT Summit sponsored by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology ("the ONC"). While he was there, I tweeted Cerner's pledge to support the View, Download, and Transmit challenge (#VDTNow) issued by Farzad Mostashari, head of the ONC.
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February 14, 2012
As the electronic health record becomes standard for patient care organizations, providers must decide on a strategy to not only utilize these powerful tools, but to fully embrace the advantages they bring to health care.
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September 27, 2011
Google just turned 13 years old (9/27/1998), and I feel old. I remember toiling away as an undergrad in the engineering computer lab, using NCSA’s Mosaic as my browser and AltaVista as my main search engine. I also remember my first encounter with a laboratory information system (LIS) as a medical student, using a light pen to call up a floor census and printing out pages of labs to stuff into my pockets for rounds. EMRs were barely there, paper was everywhere. The big movement in all parts of health care IT at the time was “get the data into the computer,” and all of those printouts, paper charts, and the like slowly migrated into an electronic format.
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February 22, 2011
In the past several months, we’ve shared the stories of Children’s Hospital Boston and Carroll County Memorial Hospital. These organizations represent two very different communities, but have both reached significant accomplishments in healthcare IT – Reaching Stage 7 on the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) Electronic Medical Record Adoption Model for Children’s Hospital Boston and HIMSS Stage 6 for Carroll County Memorial Hospital.
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January 04, 2011
CommunityWorks is a division of Cerner that focuses on
partnering with Community and Critical Access Hospitals. We’ve been working
closely with Carroll County Memorial Hospital (Carrollton, MO) since last March
and are proud to announce that CCMH become just the 4th Critical Access
Hospital in the U.S. to reach HIMSS Stage 6 on the EMR Adoption Model. This
puts them in the top 3.5% of all
U.S. hospitals in terms of EMR adoption. CCMH went live on the CommunityWorks Millennium
Software as a Service (SaaS) offering on September 1.
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