The Huffington Post tells a a toe of woe. One worth repeating because it cost a nine-physician Florida practice more than $400,000 to learn it.
Robert Cameron told the website his practice bought an electronic medical records system from Acermed, a California company. The EMR didn’t work well; in fact so badly the company was sued [...]

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All you’re hearing is electronic medical records this and EHR that. You’re probably thinking what does this have to do with you since you’re in billing, not records?
Basically, President Obama will make it nearly impossible for any health care provider to stay with paper records after 2011. He’s willing to pay for the conversion, but [...]

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The Gray Lady of Gotham City writes today that the medical community’s technology is a decade behind, calling health care providers “laggards” when updating their computers.
At least the medical community is growing, unlike the newspaper world. We’ll see whose computers are still running a decade from now.
Anyway, the link below to the story makes some [...]

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It was bad enough when Wal-Mart put the mom-and-pop companies out of business. Now they’re coming for you.
Wal-Mart is teaming with Dell and eClinical Works to provide turnkey electronic medical records for small medical practices. Looking for a slice of the $19 billion package for EMRs, Wal-Mart will provide hardware, software, maintenance and training.
While that’s [...]

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Did you know the Veterans Administration uses electronic medical records? Or 18 percent of blood tests need to be repeated because doctors can’t find the results?
This ABC News report shows the benefits of what we all know — EMRs save money and lives.

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I know you need a laugh. You get a few here. This is a 1961 video of electronic medical records. How it works. The video on the computers is fascinating alone.

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Do you have a strong cup of coffee in your hand? Go get a second for your other hand because this video is a seminar on electronic medical records.
The guy could put kids with ADD to sleep. But, we’ve all attended these talks because they do have beneficial information. So, here you go.

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Are electronic medical records the answer to controlling costs?
This gentleman works for doctors handling their EMRs and gives a very common sense approach to the issue. How the data can be best used for both doctors and medical professionals. Bet this sounds like the same conversations you often have about health care.

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President Barack Obama’s commitment for every American to have an electronic medical record by 2014 is to save lives and money while creating jobs.
“If you go to the bank on the way home and take out your ATM card and get $25 out of your account to use this weekend, the transaction costs the bank [...]

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Don’t say you weren’t warned. The machines will soon take us over. This spoof shows hospital workers being overrun by the electronic medical records.
It’s OK to laugh. You know you want to.

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