https://physiciansnews.com/2011/09/12/ipad-emr-apps-a-guide-to-electronic-medical-records/ Health news for doctors and patients. Thu, 18 Oct 2012 18:38:01 +0000 hourly 1 https://physiciansnews.com/2011/09/12/ipad-emr-apps-a-guide-to-electronic-medical-records/#comment-451 Sun, 20 Nov 2011 22:40:04 +0000 https://physiciansnews.com/?p=4258#comment-451 Tablets with EMRs or EHRs can lead to more unnecessary or nonevidence-based treatments, particularly in hospitals managed by so-called hospitalists. A hospitalist by definition is a physician contracted to maximizes hospital billing and collaborates on insurance funding. Instead of using the EMRs accessed in a tablet to refer to specialists like cardiologists and neurologists, a hospitalists will generate billing by connecting with other wellness type of providers. An example is PacificHospitalists.com contracted at Hoag Hospital in Newport Beach. When calling Pacific Hospitalists, their statement was the doctors do not work with patients but only with hospitals and insurance companies. My experience at Hoag was being billed for 45 chest X-rays by seven providers over 18 days despite no cardiac arrest, blockage, cholesterol or cardiomypathy. One provider stopped at 10 chest x-rays, and there were no reports of any physician actually reading the redundant chest X-rays. But the lead physician at Pacific Hospitalists did bill several thousand dollars for Day Encounters that supposed were to manage who did what with actual in-hospital services. Will physician tablets merely be a tool to connect for more unnecessary medical services? Insurance providers like UHC already disseminate patient records through outsourcers like inContact to telemarket hospital patients after returning home. Physician tablets with EMRs and EHRs could become social media for work-at-home nurses selling remote nursing, prescription management, and other wellness deals.

]]> https://physiciansnews.com/2011/09/12/ipad-emr-apps-a-guide-to-electronic-medical-records/#comment-450 Tue, 04 Oct 2011 03:18:51 +0000 https://physiciansnews.com/?p=4258#comment-450 Bento, like most other iPad apps are not encrypting patient data on the device. If you sync it to iCloud or transmit any record, you are in violation of HIPAA regulations.

]]> https://physiciansnews.com/2011/09/12/ipad-emr-apps-a-guide-to-electronic-medical-records/#comment-449 Wed, 21 Sep 2011 21:10:24 +0000 https://physiciansnews.com/?p=4258#comment-449 In my case I use Bento for iPad with a personalized database optimized for my work.
I hope an iCloud integration soon to save my medical records on the cloud.
Airprint service like Filemaker Go for iPad would be great, too.

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