About Ocius Medical Informatics

About Our Name

Ocius (OH-see-us) is the Latin word meaning "faster, more swiftly." We chose this name in recognition of the fact that technology is changing the world of healthcare at an extremely rapid pace. Our mission is to assist our clients in adopting tools and techniques that allow them to stay ahead of the curve.

What We Offer

Ocius Medical Informatics (OMI) provides healthcare organizations and vendors with business and technical consulting services that focus on medical informatics, a fast-evolving specialty that can be daunting even to those in the field.

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Current Events

Speaking Engagements

Todd Frech, Senior Partner at OMI, spends time on the road speaking about health information systems design, system selection, implementation strategies, HIPAA, and Regional Health Information Organizations (RHIOs). The impact of RHIOs on healthcare organizations and the communities they serve has been an area of particular focus in recent speaking engagements.

Laboratory Institute

29 September 2006, Arlington, VA

Transmitting Lab Test Results to EHRs: What's the Right Direction for Labs?

HFMA Spring Institute

18 May 2006, Irving, TX

Benets of Regional Health Information Organizations: How to Create a Sustainable RHIO - Our presentation used the Waterbury Health Access Program as a case study to demonstrate the ways in which RHIOs can improve a community's healthcare services, provide information to plan a community's future healthcare needs, and use input from participating providers to remain sustainable.

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Quotes

Todd has also recently been quoted on a number of topics in Health Data Management and other publications.

Suit Alleges 'Scary Doctor' Had Unfettered Access to Medical Records of Paramours

April 2007

EKG + E-Records Equals Efficiencies

February 2006

Melding PACS and Electronic Records

November 2005

Solving the Staffing Puzzle

September 2002

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Forensic Informatics

February 2009

In healthcare, as in other industries, the transition from paper to electronic record keeping presents new challenges as well as new opportunities. But healthcare is unique in many ways.

In the next few years, as the next administration begins a program to implement electronic medical records (EMRs), there will be changes in the standard of care. Mistakes due to the laborious manual processes still prevalent in today's healthcare market will no longer be accepted. There will be many opportunities for litigation.

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