According to a recent RAND Corp. study, the efficiency gains hoped for with EMRs have been stifled due to the incompatibilities between different systems. http://www.marketplace.org/topics/life/health-care/study-still-waiting-efficiency-gains-electronic-medical-records
On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 11:19 AM, Michael Dexter <[email protected]>wrote: > Portland Linux/Unix Group Meeting Announcement > > Who: Diane Petersen > What: Medical Informatics > Where: PSU, 1930 SW 4th Ave. Room FAB 86-01 (Lower Level) > When: Thursday, February 7th, 2013 at 7pm > Why: The pursuit of liberating technologies. > > See location H-10 on the PSU map at http://pdxLinux.org/campus_map.jpg > > > Historically, implementation of electronic health records in medical > offices have been problematic. Specifically, poor implementation of > these products is the leading cause of failure of acceptance of EHRs in > these offices. Implementation of EHRs in the small physician office > remains poorly documented and this contributes to this failure rate. To > address this need, OEMR (The OpenEMR Non-Profit) developed an internship > experience with the Department of Medical Informatics and Clinical > Epidemiology at Oregon Health and Science University to develop a road > map for converting a small physician's office that is still using paper > records to OpenEMR, an open source electronic health record, while using > open source tools to implement and document the transformation. > Documentation was made public on the OEMR wiki (at > http://www.oemr.org/wiki/Going_From_Paper_to_Electronic) as a template > for future implementations. This presentation is an overview of the > documentation completed for the wiki. There are many paths to > implementation, but the destination is meaningful use of the OpenEMR > system. > > Special Thanks: PLUG regular Keith Lofstrom was instrumental to the > success of this project, not to mention Dr. Sam Bowen, MD in North > Carolina and PLUG speaker Tony McCormick. > > Diane Petersen is an emerging clinical informaticist, drawing from her > formal education in clinical informatics and her extensive experience as > a clinical pharmacist in a variety of settings. Having completed an > internship leading and documenting the implementation of OpenEMR, an > open source ambulatory electronic health record and practice management > software application, Diane is in her last term of the Masters of > Biomedical Informatics program at Oregon Health and Science University. > She plans to apply her background and knowledge contributing to the > improvement of managing healthcare data, and ultimately the improvement > of patient care and outcomes. > > Calagator Page: http://calagator.org/events/1250463271 > PLUG page with information about all PLUG events: http://pdxLinux.org/ > > Agenda: > > 7:00 - 7:30 Announcements > 7:30 - 8:30 Presentation and Questions > 9:00 - ... Refreshments > > The Lucky Lab Northwest Beer Hall > 1945 NW Quimby > Portland, Oregon > > Follow PLUG on Twitter: http://twitter.com/pdxlinux > > Michael Dexter > PLUG Volunteer > > See you there! > _______________________________________________ > PLUG-announce mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
