EVOQ

07/29/2016

Costs of the best healthcare in the world pt. III How we deliver quality healthcare One of the greatest challenges facing our healthcare system today is delivering quality health outcomes at a reasonable cost.  As highlighted in the last post, we are collecting a lot of data – a high quantity – as p...

07/11/2016

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Costs of the best healthcare in the world pt. II How we speed up our healthcare delivery system Last post we briefly looked at our encumbered state of healthcare, with nearly half of our medical records missing in EHR databases. We posed the question whether healthcare can truly be delivered if the...

06/24/2016

Costs of the best healthcare in the world How the US stacks up with the rest of the world     Health care in the United States is among the best in the world. Our physicians receive intensive, internationally recognized training and stay current on the changing healthcare landscape. Our hospitals ha...

04/28/2016

Want to learn more about blynq in 30 seconds? Watch this video, and then visit our website!

04/26/2016

Doug completely nails what is plaguing the healthcare industry and how to truly make data interoperable and, more importantly, meaningful for patients and providers.

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04/26/2016

Come see our very own Aaron Masih tonight at Health 2.0 Atlanta as he joins Spence McClelland and others to discuss how to really transform healthcare!

Please join us and our moderator, Spence McClelland, Partner at Noro-Moseley Partners on April 26th at 6:00PM at The Advanced Technology Development Center's ( ATDC ) newly renovated space for ne

03/31/2016

Our new website just launched! Come take a look, at www.EVOQmd.com

11/04/2015

This is sad, but absolutely true. At the end, it is the patients who suffer...

In 2004 I started the first VoIP-based SaaS company for the call center market. Based on the moderate success we achieved, I thought making a play in the..

09/10/2015

Had a great time with our friends and partners at SoZo.

08/22/2015

I am convinced that the fax machine industry would be out of business today if it weren't for healthcare. The author mentions that many medical offices and facilities have someone on staff whose sole job it is to operate the fax machine. Sounds silly, right? But it's true. He also states how electronic records can be shared much more effectively if all healthcare institutions are on EPIC, since EPIC can share documents across sites. But what if not everyone is on EPIC? There are over 800 ambulatory EHR vendors, and nearly 300 inpatient EHR vendors. That's why blynq makes more sense. We give providers access to medical records for patients regardless of whatever back-end EHR is in use.

EHRs aren't a complete replacement yet

08/20/2015

Great article on the ever-depressing state of EHR usage with doctors. Dr. Roy Smythe, Chief Medical Officer for AVIA Health, comments that with EHRs, healthcare is "a fundamentally different experience, particularly for those who have been practicing for decades." Smythe also says that "there's also this existential thing about technology getting between you and the patient, and it's real for a lot of doctors."

"Smythe does see some refinement on the horizon, such as voice recognition technology that would automatically record a patient visit and format the data in the EHR, allowing the physician to once again focus on the patient. That alone would be a game changer."

Smythe, however, doesn't see this happening anytime soon. EVOQ believes much to the contrary, as blynq is being used today to transform communities like Dothan, Alabama, where physicians can now document encounters using dictation and still satisfy requirements. As we continue to transform communities to be better, more efficient consumers and deliverers of healthcare, EVOQ will remain relentless at ensuring that Smythe's game changer becomes a reality for physicians and patients very, very soon.

Healthcare experts are weighing in on reasons for the results.

08/13/2015

Proves the old adage that it takes more than just money to fix problems. It's really sad how many millions of dollars have been spent by the medical community and the government (through subsidies and incentives) to deploy EMRs, all with the intent of improving patient care and reducing costs, but even more sad is how much neither of those have been accomplished.

A 5-year review in JAMIA suggests they had less effect than you may expect.