Category: Patient Engagement
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Barriers impede provider use, endorsement of PHRs
The low adoption rate of personal health records by consumers may be caused in part by problems that providers are having with the systems, according to a new study published in the Journal of Medical Internet Research . read more
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EHR Certification News for the week ending April 5th
The certification of EHR systems is an ongoing process – as is the notification of those certifications. There were two such announcements this week. The first is from iChartsMD who announced certification of iChartsMD v5.2. iCharts also announced that they’ll be entering the already crowded hospital market for EHRs. The second certification announcement came from…
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Epic CEO Questions Motives of CommonWell Alliance Members
At the monthly meeting of the Health IT Policy Committee, members discussed the CommonWell Health Alliance, the interoperability cooperation between five of the industry’s biggest vendors. Judy Faulkner, CEO of Epic Systems (Verona, Wis.), and a Health IT Policy committee member, questioned the motives of the group during the meeting.
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Starting the Health IT Ball Rolling
Early on in my EHR implementation experience I had an enlightening moment. In the clinic I was working at, we decided to just do a partial implementation of the EHR software in order for us to replace the scheduling and billing side of our current processes. The clinic was using some old scantron like billing…
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Epic’s Faulkner: CommonWell Alliance raises questions
Epic CEO Judy Faulkner said at this week's Health IT Policy Committee meeting that not being invited to be part of the CommonWell Health Alliance prior to its announcement at HIMSS13 last month has caused her to have doubts about its motives. read more
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ONC Grants Promote HIE Governance Work
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) has awarded grants to two organizations to continue their work on health information exchange governance. ONC has awarded $285,000 to DirectTrust and $200,000 to the EHR/HIE Interoperability Workgroup to support their work advancing the governance of health information exchanges. The Office of the National…
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CIO: Use different approaches to encourage EHR adoption
Hospitals need to take into account each particular physician and tailor their approach to moving the physician to an electronic health record system, according to Daniel Morreale, vice president and CIO at Kingsbrook Jewish Medical Center in New York City. read more
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Pediatricians offer model for kids’ EHRs
Electronic health records frequently lack functions specific to children’s healthcare needs, but this could change as an effort led by the American Academy of Pediatrics has developed standards and functional requirements that the AAP would like EHR…
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EHR users: Meet big brother
Within the past month, we've heard that electronic health records are under the gun for potential noncompliance of not one, but four different laws. read more
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Taking The Pulse Of Mobile Health
It’s no secret the healthcare industry is going digital. Electronic health records, health information exchanges, and Web-based patient portals are becoming ubiquitous features in nearly all clinical environments. But the fastest, most widely adopted digital push, according to healthcare industry experts, has undoubtedly been in mobile health.