Jeff Rowe

The concept of linking payment to higher quality, more efficient healthcare may finally be turning the corner. The success of this payment model requires buy-in from payers and the application of the model across all providers.

This is the third installment of the interview conducted with Heather Haugen and Jeffrey Woodside, MD, whose book, Beyond Implementation: A Prescription for Lasting EMR Adoption, was published in May.

This is the second installment of the interview conducted with Heather Haugen and Jeffrey Woodside, MD, whose book, Beyond Implementation: A Prescription for Lasting EMR Adoption, was published in May.

Researchers Heather Haugen and Jeffrey Woodside, MD, wrote their recently released book, Beyond Implementation: A Prescription for Lasting EMR Adoption, to highlight common themes to EMR adoption barriers that they were seeing in their work with clients and to provide a basic methodology for breaking through those barriers.

There are quite a number of hospitals that have embarked on health IT projects years ago, and they have a big advantage over those hospitals that are just now building their roadmap for the implementation and adoption of EMRs and EHRs.

David Blumenthal, MD, head of ONC, announced on Friday, June 18, the final rules for temporary certification of EHR products. With the temporary certification rule in place, he expects EHRs with this particular certification on the market by this fall.

Steven P. Rosenberg, MD, of Palm Beach Dermatology, wants the Florida Board of Medicine to issue a statewide warning for EMRs. Why?

A medical overdose resulted in death at a Maine hospital in early June. A man who was admitted to the emergency room was initially given a drug and then given 10 times the original dose a second time when his symptoms reappeared.

Based on the comments we received, last Friday's observations about the public's apparent awareness gap when it comes to making use of healthcare information struck a chord with a number of readers. But while the problem seems clear, how policymakers should proceed is less so.

We're starting to see more validation for EHR implementation from multiple organizations and different segments of the healthcare delivery system. This is good news.