What Does it Take to Qu...

 By InterOpNurse guest contributor: Software Advice The great folks over at Software Advice teamed up with Justin Barnes, Chairman of the HIMSS Electronic Health Record Association and Vice President of Greenway Medical Technologies, to help answer these questions:   How...

ONCHIT Releases its Pre...

With a December 31st deadline to provide an initial set of standards, The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONCHIT) and The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced regualtions tonight that define "meaningful use" of...

Android Reviewed...

  I am a big fan of pocket gadgets.  I remember my first handheld gadget, the Palm Pilot Professional, and how amazed I was at the ability to have all this I consider crucial information accessible from a palm sized device.  The Palm Pilot line of devices I definitely...

HHS To Award $235M To B...

On Wednesday, HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced the launch of a $235 million initiativeto support community-based models for electronic health record adoption, Federal Computer Week reports (Lipowicz, Federal Computer Week, 12/2). Of the funds, HHS will award...

Pink Glove Dance...

Working in Healthcare is a stressful occupation.  Not to mention the changing climate of healthcare as we focus and try and reform and ensure quality for the safety of our patients.  After a long day at work, it was nice to stumble upon this video - Providence St. Vincent...

EMR vs EHR – Are ...

By InterOpNurse guest contributor: RevenueXL Inc.    What is the difference between an EMR and EHR? Aren’t they essentially the same? It is easy to notice the confusion created by the inconsistent messages being bandied about by different industry...

Nurses You Can Follow a...

I am pleased to announce that InterOpNurse made it on the LVN to RN website.  Thank you to LVN to RN for the special mention.  Here is an excerpt: Specialty Nurses You Can Follow and Learn From on Twitter   These Twitter feeds come from nurses who work in a...

Top 10 Electronic Medic...

By InterOpNurse guest contributor: RevenueXL Inc.  It is normal to find physicians having their own preferences for what is most important to them in selecting EMR Software for implementation. When we wanted to create a universal list of the top 10 must-have features in an...

From Accountability to ...

A list serve post by Bob Pyke Jr., RN, NP propelled me to write about this and parrallel it to my experience in software implementation.  In his post Bob mentioned the following: Do you have employees who “rent” their jobs? You know the ones: They do competent...