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My Dinner with Downtime
Andre could see sickness wash over Wally’s face as he asked, “How much did we pay for our EMR?” Wally was hired as CIO to help Mercy Hospital prepare for their epic EMR implementation. Their vendor selection was safe yet contentious and ruled by typical political tribes. Soon after the decision disgruntled employees would hurl […]
February 8, 2017
Enhanced Informed Consent & eForms
As we abruptly return from our holiday cocoons and re-emerge into 2017, let’s consider some ways to serve our customers. Your customers are your patients, and my customers are…you! Right around the time I was experiencing a turkey overdose (ICD10 code T78.1), the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released its yearly proposed […]
January 4, 2017
A Pic May Save Your Pick List
In a recently published DHHS paper, “Report on the Safe Use of Pick Lists in Ambulatory Care Settings”, providers were presented various recommendations to reduce order entry errors. One of the more significant DHHS recommendations was the assertion that patient photos in tandem with the EMR’s order verification screens will reduce these same errors. This […]
December 8, 2016
A Justification for Proper eForms Design
Do you use electronic forms or eForms in your hospital? Be prepared. This and my next blog will be slightly technical. eForms empower manual workflows every day, from retrieving electronic signatures at registration to providing consent for surgical procedures, eForms extend the functionality of your existing platforms and narrows the gap between manual and […]
Tags: DB Technology, eForms, Healthcare Document Management, interactive eforms, workflow
October 4, 2016
The EMR will be inaccessible tomorrow. Please use Downtime Procedures.
BY GREG PARK An email with this title is dreaded by hospital employees, especially when staff are blindsided by unscheduled downtimes that leave them struggling to access patient histories or collect new data. Your hospital, along with every modern healthcare provider, depends on the collection and accessibility of reliable and timely patient information, yet EMR […]
September 7, 2016
eForms Hocus Pocus
In our last blog we discussed the value of eForms and JavaScripts, and how to automatically value a text field with the date and time a digital signature was applied. We then introduced the ability to design field logic to secure information security and privacy within your eForms. I am going to exaggerate an […]
November 2, 2015
New Customer Announcement
DB Technology is pleased to welcome several new recent Ras customers. Jacobi Medical Center North Bronx Healthcare Einstein Medical Center Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital at Hamilton Ras has recently replaced Laserarc, Xenos and Cypress at several locations. Some other recent client expansions include: Robert Wood Johnson at Somerset – Revenue Cycle Management Expansion Galt House – eFolders […]
September 30, 2015
The Great Escape…of Data
The convergence of digital health information and social file sharing technologies has introduced major challenges for health providers seeking to share PHI with business and clinical partners while adhering to HIPAA obligations. The Risk Are rules for information sharing understood by all employees? File sharing technologies are pervasive and growing in popularity, and in […]
August 11, 2015
“Little Data” and the Shortcomings of the Self-Service Model
How do your employees and partners obtain the information they need to perform their jobs? Are they PUSHED information in the traditional way, via reports and emails? Are they asked to PULL information via a self-service tool, i.e. EMR dashboards and query tools? The PULL method is the primary method deployed by newer EMR’s, […]
July 31, 2015
Notice of Admission or: How I Learned to Stop Wasting Money and Love my EDM
The only function of an Enterprise Document Management (EDM) is the delivery of unstructured content and Interoperability with your EMR…Right? Wrong! For Dbtech customers Ras provides features well beyond traditional EDM. For example, many of our customers have recognized the efficiency of automating payer notification through the Ras Notice of Admission (NOA) workflow and […]
Tags: EDM, EHR, EMR, insurance
July 21, 2015
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