Linda said:
To me, this is a lot of un-necessary work. But what tallmanusa is discussing is being pushed by the current administration and CMS.
I don't want to hijack tallmanusa's thread and turn it into a technical discussion of what I do with my clients. If tallmanusa knows what it means for the client to send his information to tallmanusa's system, I'm sure he knows what it means for his people to reach into the client's system and pull data out and import it into tallmanusa's system.
You may know that there is a push into
healthcare interoperability going on now. From here:
http://www.himss.org/ASP/topics_FocusDynamic.asp?faid=665[Healthcare] Interoperability describes the extent to which systems and devices can exchange data, and interpret that shared data. For two systems to be interoperable, they must be able to exchange data and subsequently present that data such that it can be understood by a user. In healthcare, interoperability is the ability of different information technology systems and software applications to communicate, exchange data accurately, effectively and consistently, and use the data that has been exchanged.Any recent EMR is supposed to be able to exchange specific patient and billing data with any recent PM system, through the HL7 interface. The intent is to be able to mix and match the components of any system - instead of having to buy/lease all of them from the same vendor. For me anyway, this has resulted in clients purchasing a recent EMR system without purchasing the PM part of it. Their EMR system can share / exchange data with any recent PM system.
http://www.hl7standards.com/blog/2010/03/04/hl7-interface-an-overview/If two systems have a proper HL7 interface, client should be able to push data to tallmanusa's system, or tallmanusa should be able to reach into clients system and pull out the data he needs and import it into his sytem.
My clients I referred to above have HL7 interfaces, but I don't. I get the data through a combination of export from theirs and import into mine through a secure connection. We don't re-type the date.
Healthcare interoperability, exchanging data through the HL7 standard (among others), is an animal totally different from dialing into someone else's system through GoToMyPC or other similar programs.