Brand new production equipment has been installed to provide the fastest . . . More »

Sahler has been supplying patient charting supplies and filing equipment for 40 years. We offer expertise combined with strong relationships with manufacturers and a low overhead operation. Check out the store. The link is up there on the right. You do not have to set up an account or tell us anything about your self to browse all you like. When you are ready to order just enter the usual charge card information and instructions about where to ship your order. We will use our years of experience to review your order and get it on the way as fast as we can. Oops, I forgot one important thing. If you don’t see what you need, call us to take free advantage of all our experience to talk about both standard and custom products until the perfect solution is found.

Protect your charts with lab and treatment room friendly folders that resist liquid spills and are dirt and finger-oil resistant. Here is Smead’s page. The special surface takes ballpoint or rollerball pens and pencil. Folders wipe clean with a damp cloth. The treated edges nearly eliminate the risk of painful paper cuts. . . . More »

An extended article printed by the New York Times describes how many individual Doctors are reluctant to adopt electronic medical records. Reason include high cost, inconvenience and little or no benefit to patients or the practice.

Using the right system of paper files saves time and money. Sahler has been supplying supplies and equipment to physicians? for so many years . . . More »

The 2009 year bands are here and ready to ship. The books say they are brown, but they really are somewhere between butterscotch and caramel (the office contrarian likes milk chocolate.) Here is where you order. Note the low price. Try us, you will be pleased with our service.

March 30,? HIPAA rules compliance enforcement is getting more attention. This article in COMPUTERWORLD describes an audit of a major medical center in Atlanta, Georgia and includes a list of 42 questions that the auditors posed. Some years ago when electronic medical records were in the news and even before personal computers were available, a Physician mentioning a storm that had recently caused a wide area power blackout, said that he planned to continue to have all of his patients’ records readable by flash or candle light.

March 24,? Winona, Minnesota is a small community not too far from Minneapolis. It was from there that The PBS News Hour with Jim Lehrer did an in depth story about a community wide electronic medical records programs that made patient medical information available to all the usual players, health care professionals and aides, and possibly for the first time anywhere, directly to individual patients or guardians through the internet. If we understood the story correctly, patients can even update appropriate parts of their personal records

February 26, Go ogle and the Cleveland Clinic have just announced a program to put patient medical records on line. An article in SC Magazine raises some of the ramifications of such a program, with emphasis on privacy and HIPAA.

The magazine article begins: “In a move some say could compromise the privacy of hospital patients, Google has announced it will begin a pilot test of an online health service that will store the medical records of several thousand Cleveland Clinic medical center patients.”

February 27, Another report on this issue is found in the ARMA International Informanagement NewsWire

Sahler provides a full line of medical charting supplies and color and barcoding label printing software. Browse and order here. Use a credit card or a purchase order.

February 27, 11 PM Here is another story from Wired Magazine. Google to Store Patients’ Health Records Note the heavy emphasis on patient rights and privacy.

February 28, 9:41 PM Google drops another shoe on its plan to let patients access their own medical records on the internet while keeping ownership and control.Here is the start of the article in today’s New Work Times

“ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Google Inc. won’t sell ads to support a new Internet service that stores personal medical information, CEO Eric Schmidt said Thursday in the search giant’s first detailed comments about a venture that has raised privacy concerns.

“Schmidt described Google Health as a platform for users to manage their own records, such as medical test results and prescriptions. It would be accessed with a user name and password, just like a Google e-mail account, and could be called up on any computer with an Internet connection.

“A primary benefit, Schmidt said, is the portability of records from one health care provider to the next. He repeatedly said no data would be shared without the consumer’s consent.

”Our model is that the owner of the data has control over who can see it,” Schmidt said at the annual conference of the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society. ”And trust, for Google, is the most important currency on the Internet.”

February 29 11AM This is more inside baseball about the economics of online medical records but everything affects something. From the New York Times :? By Saul Hansell

Google no doubt would like to help you live a long and healthy life. But let?s be clear: the company?s new medical records system is largely about advertising, especially ads by drug companies.

When announcing the long-delayed Google Health service at a convention of healthcare technologists in Orlando, Eric Schmidt, Google?s chief executive, said that at first there would be no ads on the service.

He compared it to Google News, a popular service that to date doesn?t carry any advertising. (That isn?t because Google doesn?t want ads on its news site. But putting them there would be controversial, because the site links to articles on sites with which Google doesn?t have any business relationship.)

March 9 10PM Another major computer systems magazine, NETWORKWORLD, has written about HIPAA concerns about unsecure confidential patient medical records. The article starts:

“Healthcare organizations feel under increasing attack from the Internet, while security incidents involving insiders and disappearing laptops with sensitive data are piling up. On top of that, there’s now the prospect of a surprise audit from the federal government agency in charge of overseeing the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act security and privacy rules.”? Click here to read the whole article.