Are there any inroads being made to capture on EMR glucose results from POCT devices?

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I am not familiar with this area at all. Could you elaborate on your question with more detail?

I have worked on projects w both J&J / Lifescan and Roche several yrs ago, and both of these companies have multiple methods of transfering glc results from the POCT device to sophisticated PC-based tracking software at the patient's home via IR or cable, or even to a PC in the doc's office. Once results are on the PC, it is fairly easy to move them into an EMR or LIS system; LIS transfer is available for hospital based meters (see April 2008 edition of CAP Today). Roche seems to have the most advanced approaches and products. Not sure if this work has been done yet for consumer based units.

Integration of Medical Record Software in EMR

I was trying to find out if there are any company providing Medical billing component which can be used as a plug-in component in EMR.

I know one company which provides similar service but the issue is that the data resides in there databaseAnswers 1

In the U.S.A. almost all medical providers had billing software ("Practice Management Software" prior to EMR systems.

So, all EMR programs either accept an interface to the billing system and/or have a billing module.

The system that all health care managers want is a system that does have one single unifed database structure - not a different one.

An approach to implementing EMR is then to implement it in modules: scheduling, billing, then clinical records.