Category: EHR
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Leveraging EMR Data Into Marketing Analytics
The following is a guest post by Daniel Goldberg, CEO of Gold Medical Marketing By now, most physicians have at least begun the process of cleansing their offices of bulky patient charts and opted for the less cumbersome EHR / EMR systems. Regardless of the system you are using, EMR data may hold a value…
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Patients Want to Share Their Medical Data
During the recent Dell Healthcare Think Tank which I took part in, I had an idea that I think is incredibly powerful and not talked about nearly enough. In fact, I think its reasonable to say that if we want to get healthcare costs down, then we have to learn how to do this well.…
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Lawmaker urges extension of safe harbor for EHRs
Normally, it would be illegal for a hospital to donate electronic medical-record software to an independent doctor who refers patients for treatment at the hospital. But federal officials created special rules to allow such transfers as a way to…
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Doctors and their online reputations
The New York Times, March 22, 2013if ((!document.images && navigator.userAgent.indexOf(“Mozilla/2.”) >= 0) || navigator.userAgent.indexOf(“WebTV”)>= 0) {document.write(”);document.write(‘‘);}Since starting his blog, KevinMD, nearly 10 years ago, Dr. Kevin Pho has become a rock star among the health care set, one of the few doctors recognizable by first name only. A primary care doctor, Dr. Pho presides over…
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EHR and HIT News for March 28th
Today’s EHR and HIT news includes updates from iPatientCare on the release of an updated version of their Patient Portal. There is also news of a product update from iMedicora as well as some personnel news from DataMotion on two additions to its management team. iPatientCare Announces Launch of 2nd Generation of Patient Portal and…
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Boulder hospital stymied by computer problems
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Does Patient Interaction Lock a Doctor In to an EHR?
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about EHR vendor lock in. I think this was prompted by some stories I’ve heard of EHR vendors holding clinics EHR data “hostage” when the clinic chooses to switch EHR software. I heard one case recently that was going to cost the clinic a few hundred thousand dollars to…
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Docs limit patient EMR access
Even as policmakers are pushing patient engagement , a new survey signals doctors may not be ready to relinquish control of their patients' medical record. read more
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In push to go paperless, don’t forget about paper entirely
While it's laudable for hospitals today to be “all electronic” and meeting the advanced stages of electronic adoption in HIMSS' EMR adoption model –the highest levels of EHR use… read more
