Tag: ehr
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In push to go paperless, don’t forget about paper entirely
While it's laudable for hospitals today to be “all electronic” and meeting the advanced stages of electronic adoption in HIMSS' EMR adoption model –the highest levels of EHR use… read more
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Tight battles under way for inpatient EHR dominance
Four developers of electronic health-records system are in a tight battle to become the most popular developer of complete, inpatient EHR systems that hospitals use to achieve meaningful use and receive Medicare EHR incentive payments, an analysis…
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Kaiser Permanente Accused Of Using EMR As Smokescreen
Kaiser Permanente, California’s largest healthcare provider, has been cited by state officials for using its EMR to work its way around requirements to see mental health patients promptly, reports EHR Intelligence. Potentially risking their own jobs, Kaiser’s own mental health team brought the discrepancies to the attention of the state. Their complaint not only…
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Free state immunization registry interfaces introduced for all Sevocity EHR customers
Sevocity, a division of Conceptual MindWorks, Inc., today announced free state immunization registry interfaces/links for all Sevocity EHR customers.
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Balancing The Scales: Selecting The Right EHR For The Life Of Your Practice And Your Patients
If we are at or approaching a technological tipping point in the history of healthcare, then it has never been more important for physician practices to select the right electronic health record (EHR) – and there are tangible reasons to believe so.
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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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How to boost EHR adoption for primary care docs
Merely owning an electronic health record system won't improve patient care, but an EHR can be a powerful tool to help providers do so, according to Jesse Singer, Assistant Commissioner of New York City's Primary Care Information Project, home to the city's regional extension center. read more
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EHR and HIT News for March 18th
Today’s EHR and HIT news includes news of two products that were launched at HIMSS 13 earlier in the Month. The first is from LifeMed , who launched SecureReg and the second is from Healthcare Holdings Group , who launched their SmartFormsMD Voice-Command medical template module.
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EHR Backlash, Patient Interaction, Smart Phone Use, and Dell Think Tank
Obamacare-surgeon will get $180 to do cataract surgery and risk $1.5M fine 4 HIPPA violation/jail 4 EMR error(we’re not stupid) — Kris Held,MD (@kksheld) March 17, 2013 I realize this first tweet might be controversial for many. Any time you bring a bit of politics (Obamacare in this tweet), there’s a risk of bringing out…
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EHR Penalties after Meaningful Use Failure
While at HIMSS I had a discussion with the consulting firm Stoltenberg Consulting . I was really intrigued by their approach to EHR consulting and will likely write more about it later. Plus, the started what in many ways became a theme of my HIMSS experience around rural healthcare EHR. You can be sure I’ll…