Comments on: Why Clinical Groupware May Be the Next Big Thing in Health IT

By: Ed N

Ed N — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 13:16:13 +0000

I thought there was a company – Axolotl – that does this as well? Do you know?

By: Zach

Zach — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 07:06:27 +0000

It’s always interesting to hear about innovative ideas, and it sounds like a step in the right direction from the Provider’s perspective. What about the Practice? Most EHRs today have an integrated Practice Management system that feeds off the EHR.

Inputs (EHR) > Outputs (PM) = $

By: Todd Rowland MD

Todd Rowland MD — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 00:42:48 +0000

Sounds like Health Information Exchange to me. Not all HIE have an expensive data repository model. There is considerable value (and communication) that occurs for providers to electronic route a result the first time quickly. Once you get enough providers on the system, electronic referrals and forwarding of information happens fairly naturely.

By: Lowell

Lowell — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 16:06:50 +0000

Thanks David! This is welcomed reading!! I can compare what you have described to an office visit that requires that gather information on a particular clinical problem. Commonly I will use the web to locate varying sources of information about a medical problem and I will read the ones that seeem most applicable and are the easiest to browse through.

The medical problem can be replaced with the word patient. With Groupware I could browse through varying repositories of information about my patient. I would not be restricted to the data in my EMR only.

To me it makes more sense to be able to access the patients data from whatever the storage point is vs. having to bring it into my EMR.

Lowell

By: HIE Participant

HIE Participant — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 14:40:57 +0000

Thanks for the disclaimer about RMD and Shared Health. All due respect – please next time chose Vendors that can actaully spell HIE’s or RHIO’s.