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Report: Three-in-Five Physicians Satisfied with their EHR
According to a new report from Deloitte Center for Health Services (DCHS), which surveyed 613 physicians on the state of healthcare reform and the medical profession in general, three-in-five physicians are satisfied with their electronic health records (EHRs). Overall though, physicians in the surveyed are concerned about the future of healthcare, with nearly 60 percent…
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Meaningful Use Stage 3 Priorities
In my reading, I came across this message of what the priorities for meaningful use stage 3 should be: To be considered for Stage 3, objectives must support new models of care, address national health priorities, promote advancement, be achievable and widely adopted by 2016, and be reasonable from a products and organizational perspective. I…
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Increase in wireless systems, cost benefits drive remote monitoring market
The market for advanced remote patient monitoring has been growing steadily as healthcare systems increasingly move to all-wireless systems, integrate data processing and transfer EMRs. read more
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Why provider workflow must be a priority during IT implementation
For providers asked to use new technologies like electronic health records and analytics tools, workflow impact, no doubt, is a top of mind issue. In a recent interview with the Institute for Heath Technology Transformation, Stephen Beck, chief medical informatics officer at Cincinnati-based Catholic Health Partners, said that's exactly how he approaches his organization's IT implementation processes
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New EHR Selector Website
As long as I’ve been blogging, I’ve been quite interested in the various EHR selection tools that are available out there. For a while, it seems like there was a new EHR selection tool coming out every week. The frenzy of EHR selection tools has mostly stopped and only a few major ones remain. One…
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Remote Patient Monitor Sales on the Rise
According to a research report from the New York City-based Kalorama Information, sales of advanced remote patient monitoring devices have risen 20 percent from the year before. The market for the devices, which process patient data and link them to an electronic medical record (EMR), has constantly ticked up, going from $4 billion in 2007…
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Readers, Industry Leaders Vote on MU Stage 3 Release Delay Question
Our Healthcare Informatics reader poll finds that two-thirds of respondents support the delay in the release of the Stage 3 meaningful use preliminary rule. Meanwhile, healthcare IT leaders have complex, nuanced views of that development and around Stage 3 more generally. When on Wednesday, March 20, during the HIMSS13 Conference being held in New Orleans,…
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EHR Adoption Rates Increase with Aid from Local RECs
Leaders, clinicians, and community board members of the nation’s Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs) are meeting in Washington this week to engage in collaborative learning and celebrate their journey towards meaningful use. They will also be comparing notes about what works, and what doesn’t in their adoption of health information technology.
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Stakeholders must double up on EHR security
It's somewhat self-serving that the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services published a notice in the Federal Register this week about its upcoming survey of the 115 covered entities that were audited for HIPAA compliance in 2012 pursuant to the Office for Civil Rights' (OCR) pilot audit program. read more
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Meaningful Use incentive payments top $12.3 billion
Meaningful Use incentive payments earned by providers now have hit $12.3 billion, according to the ONC's Health IT Policy Committee. read more