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Health IT Overview

HITECH and Implications for California Testimony of Jonah Frohlich , Senior Program Officer California HealthCare Foundation Senate Health Committee Hearing March 13, 2009. Health IT Overview. Health Care as a Cottage Industry. Vendor Landscape. ABELSoft n Allscripts Benchmark Systems

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Health IT Overview

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  1. HITECH and Implications for California Testimony of Jonah Frohlich, Senior Program Officer California HealthCare Foundation Senate Health Committee Hearing March 13, 2009 Health IT Overview

  2. Health Care as a Cottage Industry

  3. Vendor Landscape ABELSoft n Allscripts Benchmark Systems CareData Solutions Cerner Community Service Conceptual MindWorks digiChart Doctations eCast eClinicalWorks e-MDs Eclipsys EHS Epic GE Healthcare gloStream gMed Greenway Medical Technologies Healthland HealthPort HIT Services Group iMedica Indian Health Service Ingenix Integritas Integrity On Site Intivia LSS Data Systems McKesson MedAppz MedcomSoft MediNotes NextGen Nightingale Noteworthy Medical Systems Ochsner Clinic Foundation PracticeOne Purkinje Sage SOAPware SRSsoft SSIMED STI Computer Services TransMed Network Wellogic Over 90 EHR vendors offer independently certified systems

  4. “Meaningful Use” of Ambulatory EHRs in the US Percent - New England Journal of Medicine, Catherine M. DesRoches et al, July 3, 2008

  5. Implementation Challenges • EHRs are expensive to implement • Standards are not yet entrenched to allow for easy information exchange • Small practices, clinics and hospitals need support to: • Negotiate contracts • Implement the technology and interfaces • Confront the reality of using a complex technology everyday

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