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- Tech Talk: Social Media a Paradox for Health Care Professionals
- Rodney Lusk, MD
- Published: May 01, 2013
- Sites provide tool to market products, services, but comments hard to control
- Tech Talk: Pharmaceutical Industry Opens Line of Communication Through Social Media
- Rodney Lusk, MD
- Published: Mar 01, 2013
- Some segments of the industry have established intranets, private Websites designed to enhance information sharing within the organization
- Tech Talk: Social Media as Health Resource for Otolaryngology Patients
- Rodney Lusk, MD
- Published: Oct 01, 2012
- A look at the advantages and disadvantages of social media blogs, networking sites and other cyber connections as a health care resource for patients
- Tech Talk: Mobile Computing Can Revolutionize Health Care
- Rodney Lusk, MD
- Published: Aug 09, 2012
- Mobile devices have the power to change health care as we know it.
- Tech Talk: ROI and Cloud Technology for Medical Practices
- Rodney Lusk, MD
- Published: Jul 03, 2012
- Carefully weigh costs when deciding on a cloud technology.
- Tech Talk: Cloud Computing in the Health Care Setting: Advantages and Disadvantages
- Rodney Lusk, MD
- Published: Apr 06, 2012
- Employing cloud computing in a medical practice can result in significant cost savings, among other advantages. There are also significant risks that each health care organization must face when transitioning to cloud-based hosting.
- Tech Talk: Cloud Computing May Be a Simple Solution for Your EHR Needs
- Rodney Lusk, MD
- Published: Feb 14, 2012
- Cloud computing is the delivery of your computing needs as a service rather than as a suite of products that you have to purchase and maintain. Why couldn’t we do that with an EMR or EHR for our patients?
- Tech Talk: Server Solution: How to choose the best server to fit your EMR needs
- Rodney Lusk, MD
- Published: Dec 09, 2011
- What’s more important, your computer’s hardware or its software? You tell me: What’s more important, your heart or your lungs? Obviously, if you’re going to function, you need both. The same is true for electronic medical record (EMR) and electronic health record (EHR) software: Your hardware is mission-critical to the success of your electronic records, and this is not the place to compromise.
- Tech Talk: Face Time: Ask the right questions when meeting with EMR vendors
- Rodney Lusk, MD
- Published: Oct 10, 2011
- In my last column (ENT Today, August 2011), I explained some of the broader issues regarding electronic medical records/electronic health records (EMR/EHR) selection, centered around the understanding that an EMR is a record that is more practice centered while an EHR is a health record intended to follow the patient through multiple providers. This article is directed toward practices with a large degree of autonomy in selecting their products; therefore, we will be discussing EMRs. If you’re part...
- Tech Talk: Update Your Practice: Follow these tips to select the right EMR for your group
- Rodney Lusk, MD
- Published: Aug 02, 2011
- I have been working with electronic medical records (EMR) for many years, having first become interested in 1996, when I was looking for a tool to collect data for pediatric sinusitis. As we designed a product to collect this data, our scope expanded into developing a subspecialty-specific EMR. I have since learned a great deal about developing and codifying information and am currently participating in my third and largest implementation of an EMR at Boys Town National Research Hospital in Omaha, Neb. In...
