Tag: Data
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EHR and HIT News for April 17th
Today’s EHR and HIT news includes two partnership items, the first from Health Solutions Plus and Context4 Healthcare allowing shared customers to streamline processes and the second from Creative Computing Solutions , and Socrata who have announced a strategic partnership that they claim will help federal agencies leverage data to make informed mission and program…
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Readers Write: Buy or Build: SaaS Can Make Sense for Meaningful Use Reporting
Buy or Build: SaaS Can Make Sense for Meaningful Use Reporting By John Hotchkiss The trials and tribulations of Meaningful Use (MU) have given new meaning to the lives of many of us in IT, and often not in a good way. An average 250-bed community hospital submitting its 90-day attestation report must process roughly…
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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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EHR data still ‘too fragmented’ for secondary uses
While electronic health record data has the potential to be reused to identify which patients may be eligible to participate in clinical trials, the data capture is too incomplete and “fragmented” to be relied on for such a secondary use, according to new research published in BMC Medical Informatics & Decision Making . read more
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The Reality of SaaS
Recently I was asked if SaaS/Cloud computing is appropriate for small practice EHR hosting. I responded “SaaS in general is good. However, most SaaS is neither private nor secure. Current regulatory and compliance mandates require that you find a cloud hosting firm which will indemnify you against privacy breeches caused by security issues in the…
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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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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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EHR and HIT News for March 19th
Today’s EHR and HIT News includes updates from new release information from Unibased Systems Architecture, an expanded customer deployment from Health Catalyst as well as an update from Merge Healthcare on the adoption of their image management and digital templating solution for orthopedics. Today’s news rounds out with a customer acquisition update from M*Modal .…
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Readers Write: A Balanced EHR Copy Forward Solution
A Balanced EHR Copy Forward Solution By Kyle Samani There’s been a recent wave of media coverage surrounding the topic of EHR copy forward functionality. Many have suggested that this function should be outright banned