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EHR 2.0

The Healthcare Platform Blog

Will Google Health Platformize the Electronic Health Record Market?

by Vince Kuraitis, Edward G. Anderson, and Geoffrey Parker

The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated calls for the development of EHR 2.0 (electronic health record 2.0) – the next generation of EHRs with extended platform features and capabilities.

Who will answer this call? While existing EHR vendors have made modest efforts, the door is open for big tech companies and start-ups to develop functionality to envelop and disintermediate current EHRs. We highlight early efforts by Google Health Care Studio as having the potential to bring platform functionality to a sector of the healthcare industry known for resistance to change and innovation.

Read the full article in The Health Care Blog.

Overview: Here Come Stages 2 and 3 of HITECH!

 

We’ve spent the past year creating the MU (meaningful use) requirements for Stage 1 of the HITECH act.  As shown by the diagram above, Stage 1 focuses on Data Capture and Sharing. Now it’s time to begin to focus on Stage 2 (Advanced Clinical Processes) and Stage 3 (Improved Outcomes).

The current generation of EMRs (electronic medical records) were designed primarily to assist care providers with clinical documentation, billing, and maximizing revenues. They were not designed to enable care coordination and […]

What’s a Network Industry? Is Healthcare One?

This post is a foundational overview of characteristics of network industries.  Much of the terminology will deserve deeper discussion, but we have to start somewhere.

In his book The Economics of Network Industries, Professor Oz Shy lists four characteristics of network industries.

The main characteristics of these markets which distinguish them from the market for grain, dairy products, apples, and treasury bonds are:

Complementarity, compatibility and standards
Consumption externalities [network effects]
Switching costs and lock-in
Significant economies of scale in production

In this essay, I’ll quote from Dr. Shy in explaining each […]

Joe the Doctor: “…’scuse me, why do I want to bet-my-practice on an EMR?”

Blogger Fred Pennic writes a review of the (HIMSS) Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society 2008 Book of the Year Award. The book is entitled Keys to EMR Success: Selecting and Implementing an Electronic Medical Record and is written by Ronald Sterling, CPA, MBA.

There is no question,” says Sterling “that the selection and implementation of an EMR is a ‘bet-the-practice’ proposition. If you fail, you end up with more costs and greater frustration.…” (emphasis added)

PowerPoint Presentation — EHR 2.0

 

Click on the graphic to download a copy of today’s BrightTALK webcast.

“EHR 2.0″ Complimentary Webcast Presentation — BrightTALK e-Health Summit

BrightTALK is sponsoring a complimentary series of e-Health Summit webcasts this Wednesday, July 8.

Here’s a full listing of the six eHealth Summit topics (Eastern Time).  Click on the links to attend any or all of the webcasts.  The series will be recorded for future on-demand access. 

EHR 2.0: Federal HITECH Act Creates Opportunities Beyond EMRs
 

8 Jul 2009 11:00 am

Presenting Vince Kuraitis, Principal Better Health Technologies

 

Data Convergence in Life Sciences and Healthcare

 

8 Jul 2009 12:00 pm

Presenting Greg Nelson, President […]

Blueprint for Change: From EMR 1.0 to Clinical Groupware (EHR 2.0)

by Vince Kuraitis JD, MBA and David C. Kibbe MD, MBA

The last article in this series — Time for EHRs to Become Plug-and-Play — used words to describe a major industry shift underway in health IT.

Sometimes pictures help to make a point. Here are several diagrams that you can also download as PowerPoint slides.

 Computer Industry 1983 to 2002

 

  Source: Venkatraman, N. Winning in a Network Centric Era, 2006

Blueprint for Health IT Shift

From EMR 1.0 — 2008…

…to Clinical Groupware/EHR 2.0 — 2012

Stunning Announcement: AMA Goes to the Dogs in Deal With Physician Web Portal Company

What’s stunning about this deal is who its NOT with.  The AMA chose NOT to partner with any of the incumbent electronic medical record (EMR) companies, e.g., Allscripts, GE, Epic, NextGen, or many others.

For those of you who have not seen earlier posts in this series, please understand that the reference to “goes to the dogs” is a great compliment.

In a joint press release, the American Medical Association and Covisint unveiled an agreement yesterday:

Compuware Corporation (NASDAQ: CPWR) announced today that its Covisint subsidiary signed […]

EHR 2.0: Thinking Outside the Cat Box

One of the potential dangers of limiting $17 B HITECH federal stimulus funds to electronic health records (EHRs) is the risk of locking-in outdated technologies. Let’s consider what this might mean.

If you think of today’s EHR technology as EHR 1.0, what might EHR 2.0 look like? This post presents a number of innovative ways to conceptualize EHR 2.0:

EHR as Platform + Applications
EHR as Clinical Groupware
EHR Integrated with PHR
EHR as Software-as-a-Service (SaaS)
EHR as a “Publish-Discover” Search Engine
EHR + Disease Management Services = […]