The Electronic Office, American Academy of Ophthalmology

Booth 5159 
Moscone West Exhibit Hall

The adoption of electronic health record (EHR) systems is being accelerated by financial incentives in the economic stimulus bill and external demands for more documentation, ready access to information, fewer medical errors and enhanced productivity. Electronic workflow can reduce repetitive tasks done by staff and create efficiencies in information flow between the different computer systems in the office. Integration of EHR systems with practice management systems, digital imaging devices, and other medical instruments can be accomplished through agreed-upon standards for information exchange. These capabilities will be demonstrated at the Academy's Electronic Office. Check in and order a procedure. Have an image taken (e.g., slit-lamp biomicroscopy, fundus camera, OCT). Then go to a workstation and see your image displayed, along with your registration information. Receive a free thumbdrive after you finish. Related presentations will be offered in the Technology Pavilion Theater.

Visit The Electronic Office for a FREE demonstration and receive
a FREE USB flash drive.

Sponsoring companies of IHE Eye Care 2008 included:

Related presentations will be offered in the Technology Pavilion Center.

Feedback on the IHE Eye Care Showcase:

"I have visited the IHE area booth in 2006 and 2007. I have found it extremely helpful and comforting to see that all of these digital testing instruments from different vendors can be connected so that the tests may be accessed from computer terminals in different parts of the office. And I was pleased to see that the format and usability seemed to improve from 2006 to 2007. We are all looking at significant capital expense to integrate EHR, without a clear indication of which systems will:

1. work efficiently in a doctors office - we have all heard horror stories of offices that implemented EHR, only to abandon the project a few months later because they were too time consuming
2. work effectively in a two office environment where offices will need to be connected over the Internet
3. be cost effective and reasonably priced
4. come from a company with long term staying power - many of us remember the ramifications of Alcon abandoning the Practice Management System business. And there are Practice Management Systems that seem to be "Mom and Pop" companies, depending on a few key personnel to keep the business going.

So, I applaud and appreciate your efforts to present industry solutions to interconnection and to show EHR systems which hopefully have some staying power."