Preface: Albert Santalo is Chairman and CEO of CareCloud, an innovative web-based practice management software and electronic health record technology startup. Care Cloud integrates a fluid and attractive user-interface with an efficient revenue-cycle engine, and has attracted positive attention as well as $2.3m in series A funding. Mr. Santalo is an inductee of the Florida […]
Tag: EHR
Is an electronic health record (EHR) a good business decision for a physician practice?
As many readers are aware, the 2008 HITECH act included a $44,000 incentive for any qualifying physician who implements an approved EHR and puts it to “meaningful use”. The tenets of meaningful use are mostly known* but the final list is not due to be published until this Summer. Our senior editor, Iltifat Hussein is […]
Why not use the internet to transmit health information? The transformative potential of NHIN Direct
David Kibbe, MD recently penned a detailed post on the basics of the NHIN Direct project titled “Getting to the Health Internet” . It is great reading and I highly recommend it. Below are a few of the points I found the most interesting.
NHIN Direct is a project within the federal Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) to develop protocols for streamlined and secure internet communication among physicians and hospitals. Think of it like email for health records. Physicians should be interested in NHIN Direct because it has the the potential to open up electronic health records to new kinds of innovation.
