http://blog.omedix.com Just another WordPress weblog Sat, 07 Nov 2009 07:34:00 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en We've been busily preparing for our exhibit at the NextGen Users Group Meeting and are excited to head to Washington DC! It's funny how healthcare has just lagged behind in doing things online.  In many ways, I can understand it -- earlier today I spoke with a pain management doctor about ... http://blog.omedix.com/2009/11/07/on-our-way-to-the-nextgen-users-group-meeting/ I went to the HIMSS Conference in Chicago earlier this year.  When I wasn't getting milkshakes in a booth designed to look like a 1950's diner or learning about the latest & greatest with interoperability, I took a few minutes to chat with Eric Fishman, MD of EHRTV.com.  Dr. Fishman ... http://blog.omedix.com/2009/06/22/watch-ehrtv-interview-me-on-the-omedix-patient-portal/ We just got back from the GE Centricity Healthcare Users Group meeting, where we unveiled our new patient portal, PortalPlus. We started Omedix back in 2004 with the mission of using the web to create better medical practices.  When we began, we helped our clients do that by providing medical website ... http://blog.omedix.com/2009/03/16/introducing-the-new-omedix-patient-portal-portalplus/ We recently launched a new version of PhoenixHeart.com (screenshot below).  So what makes this site worth a blog post of its very own? It's the first site that we know of that actually has an interactive video conversation with the patient.  Websites back in the day were basically all about static ... http://blog.omedix.com/2008/08/30/a-new-kind-of-medical-practice-website/ I'm writing now from beautiful (and breezy) Charlotte, NC where I managed to convince the hotel to give me a mostly undeserving room upgrade, and so I have a rather spectacular view of downtown right now! This is our third consecutive year showing at the AAOE Conference (it used to be ... http://blog.omedix.com/2008/04/12/omedix-exhibits-at-aaoe-conference-discovers-life-truism/ This graph (if you can't see it, click the "Read More" link below) was on this morning's iHealthBeat. This is basically yet another indicator that patients are going to become increasingly choosy about where they get their medical care in the future. Offering your patients the ability to view their ... http://blog.omedix.com/2008/02/25/60/ So, as President of Omedix, part of my job is basically to promote the merits of integrating the Web with your practice. If I were presenting to a group of 100 doctors and practice managers on "Why Should I Bother with a Website for My Practice?" I would essentially ... http://blog.omedix.com/2008/02/05/the-web-is-still-mostly-uncharted-territory-for-medicine/ I was recently cc'd on an email sent by one of our cardiologist clients (an 8-doc group) sent to the entire practice. I thought it was a really cool example of how they're using their website. Here's the email verbatim (I added the bullets format, though) Subject: Our Website Has ... http://blog.omedix.com/2008/01/11/how-one-of-our-cardiology-clients-uses-their-website/ I am pleased to report that we have *finally* launched our own new website at omedix.com. We've built hundreds of websites and yet there's something incredibly difficult about building your own. It's sort of like the website equivalent of a doctor who does surgery on himself: he has ... http://blog.omedix.com/2007/11/28/the-new-omedixcom-has-been-launched/ We recently launched a website for a Phoenix-based podiatry group, the Arizona Institute of Footcare Physicians. There were a few interesting things about this project so I figured I'd share! Patients Can Now Request Appointments Online It used to be that when you wanted to make an appointment with the AIFP, you ... http://blog.omedix.com/2007/10/20/an-off-the-cuff-omedix-case-study/