McKesson was on site last week for regresson testing getting us ready to upgrade to MPF version 16.1.  We had the best time with the applicaton and tech person from McKesson who was here with us on site.  They made it fun and interesting and even learned a few things we didn’t know from the previous two versions. …

We went live with meaningful use stage 2 on March 13, 2014, but getting to that point was kind of a roller coaster ride.  Health Information didn’t have a huge part in the upgrade, but we were there for all the meetings and phone calls with McKesson and…

There is a lot going on in the way of hospital upgrades for us as I am sure it is for most hospitals.  We are getting ready to go live with meaningful use stage 2,  getting ready to start the MPF upgrade, and of course ICD-10.  I had touched base earlier on what we had planned for getting ready for ICD-10 so I kind of wanted to do a follow up…

The buzz that everybody keeps talking about with the new iPhone 5s is the finger print sensor especially for healthcare.  This feature would secure patient information from being seen by anyone other than the user of the iPhone.  Sounds great, but it didn’t quite work out that way because Apple’s touch ID technology…

I had talked a little about the new version of HPF in an earlier blog or what will be MPF in the upgrade.  There are several new features, but I wanted to talk a little more in detail on one part of the upgrade and that is the mobile deficiency completion part. 

Most of us know how long and…

For those of us who have worked in medical records or worked for a copy service long enough we know how nice is it that we don’t have to go pull a paper chart and make copies of each page like we used to do. We have the luxury of printing right out of the computer or putting it on a CD. That is all great…

It seems as though ICD-10 has been the buzz around the hospital for some time now, but are we ready? I don’t know about other hospitals, but I can tell you we will be ready. Our coding manager is on top of things, so I will tell you about some things that we are doing to get ready for the big event.…

I am sure everyone is thinking what I am if you have ever been through an upgrade with any electronic system: what will go wrong? Nothing ever goes as planned no matter how well you are prepared. With that being said we are getting ready to upgrade to HPF 16.0 in August. So with all the skepticism I have about upgrades I am kind…

Electronic records and deficiencies-who would have thought it many years ago! Have you ever heard the term can’t teach an old dog new tricks? Well, I am sure we all have a few doctors that we love, but have been a doctor for so long that they will not come off of their old ways. Trying to get them to sign a…

Four years ago we went live with McKesson and with us all being new to this whole electronic system we didn’t know what to expect as far as scanners go. McKesson recommended a big Fujitsu scanner and some smaller desk top ones for indexing. We purchased a big Fujitsu scanner and another department gave us…

Despite our eagerness and preparedness for our go live date for CPOE orders we were not ready at all. Once they were turned on we found lots of issues that we were not aware of that would impact us as a department and as a facility.…