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Is there a bright side to healthcare sequestration cuts?
You have to spend money to save money. On the face of it, that statement is counter-intuitive, but it's why the government has pumped millions into programs such as Meaningful Use, interoperability efforts, health data privacy and security and healthcare quality improvement. However, the sequestration cuts about to go into effect for some healthcare agencies and programs will allow the…
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EHR Expert Jobs, Healthcare Social Media, MU Attestation Data
UPMC, Cleveland Clinic CIOs Say EHR Experts Hard to Find – blogs.wsj.com/cio/2013/03/21… via @ wsj @ healthit #EMR #meaningfuluse — Nuance Healthcare (@NuanceHealth) March 25, 2013 I guess Cleveland Clinic doesn’t think the government trained EHR workforce. I know a lot of them that can’t get a job in any EHR position. Wow – if…
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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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Feds OK Calif. plan to put dual eligibles into managed-care plans
California on Wednesday became the fifth state — and by far the largest — to win approval of a CMS demonstration project that will put beneficiaries dually eligible for Medicare and Medicaid into managed-care plans.
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CMS unveils chronic conditions dashboard
The CMS has created a website to make it easier for researchers to access federal data on Medicare patients, targeting those with multiple chronic conditions.
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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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