Oh how I wish I could review a big fat paper chart!
I have yet to work with a user friendly EHR and a CDI software that lives up to its Marketing. Over the last five years our government has spent more than 20 billion taxpayer dollars to install electronic health record technologies, many of which apparently cannot implement a change in diagnosis codes that the rest of the world implemented years ago. ICD-10 readiness for providers is about much more than the availability of mere technical functionality; it’s about having the support necessary to successfully achieve ICD-10 compliance, which includes things like training and business processes. That the government felt compelled to delay the ICD-10 transition reflects not a failure of healthcare providers, but a failing health information technology industry that’s unable to support providers in navigating change.
Healthcare providers need and deserve technology partners that will step up and do what it takes to ensure their success in meeting the complex demands of our changing healthcare system: from the ICD-10 transition to the meaningful use program; from the transition to risk-based payments to the demands of care coordination. The government needs to stop subsidizing dysfunction by accommodating technology vendors that time and time again leave providers high and dry.
Healthcare providers need and deserve technology partners that will step up and do what it takes to ensure their success in meeting the complex demands of our changing healthcare system: from the ICD-10 transition to the meaningful use program; from the transition to risk-based payments to the demands of care coordination. The government needs to stop subsidizing dysfunction by accommodating technology vendors that time and time again leave providers high and dry.