Category: EHR
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5 ways Cleveland Clinic improved its patient engagement strategies
Some healthcare initiatives underway these days are easier to explain in succinct terms than others. Take ICD-10 and meaningful use, for example. One can be summed up as an updated coding system; the other is an effort to encourage healthcare providers to switch from paper to electronic health records. read more Source: 5 ways Cleveland…
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ONC: HIT holds ‘great potential’ to help behavioral health patients
An issue brief published last week by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT’s Office of Policy and Planning acknowledges that behavioral health providers lag behind in health IT adoption and outlines efforts for change. read more Source: ONC: HIT holds ‘great potential’ to help behavioral health patients
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Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center Achieves Stage 7 Recognition
The Chicago-based Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center has been recognized by the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) for reaching HIMSS Analytics Stage 7, the highest level on the Electronic Medical Record Adoption Model (EMRAM), the model used to track EMR progress at hospitals and health systems. The Chicago-based Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center…
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ER docs spend more time looking at EHRs than interacting with patients
Emergency doctors spend significantly more time entering data into electronic health records than they do with patients, a study published this month in the American Journal of Emergency Medicine finds. read more Source: ER docs spend more time looking at EHRs than interacting with patients
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Eyes Wide Shut – Teaching to the Meaningful Use Stage 2 Test
According to Twitter analytics, one of my more engaging tweets recently stated that Meaningful Use is stifling innovation by requiring that health IT vendors and healthcare providers employ very specific tactics to capture and report on clinical data capture and interoperability standards compliance – ostensibly to engage and empower the patient, and improve coordination of…
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Market Disruption Imminent as Hospitals and Physicians Aggressively Adopt Patient Portal Technology
Approximately 50 percent of U.S. hospitals and 40 percent of U.S. physicians in ambulatory practice possess some type of patient portal technology, mostly acquired as a module of their practice management or electronic health record system. While the availability of patient portals does not necessarily translate into active provider or patient use, the technology is…
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What does true “paperless healthcare” look like?
The following is a guest post by David McKanna, marketing manager, Imaging, Nuance. Many hospitals and clinics talk about “going paperless,” and yet even hospitals that have achieved late-stage Meaningful Use still receive and process high volumes of paper. Despite the strong push for electronic data, our experience indicates that a significant number of health…
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Wow! Over 1000 critical access and small, rural hospitals meet the Meaningful Use challenge!
Last year, we issued a nationwide challenge to see 1000 critical access hospitals (CAHs) and small, rural hospitals get to Meaningful Use by 2014. The call to action was met with support; we could feel everyone roll up their sleeves in unison. As of July 31, 2013, we passed the goal with 1,115 (65%) CAHs…
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4 Things You Should Do to Make Sure You’re Compliant with Meaningful Use
The following is a guest post by Beth Huock, Vice President of Client Services at SA Ignite. As we near the last quarter of 2013, many providers will have earned over half of their Meaningful Use (MU) incentive dollars and will be adept at following the workflows required to meet the Stage 1 measures. With…
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How Clinicians Can Connect Key Stakeholders To Craft A Healthcare Community That Empowers Patients
It’s no secret that patient engagement is critical to achieve Meaningful Use, increase patient satisfaction, lower hospital operating costs and promote higher usage of better data. In fact, you probably have several goals for your patient portal of choice, specific to your needs. Source: How Clinicians Can Connect Key Stakeholders To Craft A Healthcare Community…