Tag: ehr
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Meaningful Use attesters: Beware the False Claims Act
What happens when a provider attests that it has meaningfully used its electronic health record, receives its incentive payment, and later discovers on its own that the attestation was faulty? read more Source: Meaningful Use attesters: Beware the False Claims Act
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CIO Unplugged 10/16/13
The views and opinions expressed in this blog are mine personally and are not necessarily representative of current or former employers. Thankfulness in Action During a leadership meeting, one of our chief nursing officers, never nominated for Miss Congeniality, came rushing towards me. Although smiling on the outside, I braced on the inside for the…
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Texas to Accredit HIEs Through New Partnership
The Electronic Healthcare Network Accreditation Commission (EHNAC), a non-profit standards development organization and the Texas Health Services Authority (THSA) have announced a partnership to develop a state accreditation program for public and private health information exchange (HIE) organizations operating in Texas. The Electronic Healthcare Network Accreditation Commission (EHNAC), a non-profit standards development organization and the…
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Factors that Influence Healthcare Information Technology Adoption – Breakaway Thinking
The following is a guest blog post by Laura Speek, learning and development specialist at The Breakaway Group, a Xerox company. Check out all of the blog posts in the Breakaway Thinking series. Healthcare organizations of nearly every variety are heavily involved in analyzing a smorgasbord of choices in electronic health record (EHR) technology. While…
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Provider workflow suffers after poor EHR implementation process
While one intention of electronic health record implementation is to improve provider workflow, that was hardly the case for pair of southern California hospitals. read more Source: Provider workflow suffers after poor EHR implementation process
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Special report: At CHIME13, health IT leaders had money on their minds
Sessions at the annual College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) conference in Arizona last week ran the gamut from governance and leadership to patient identifiers to data analytics to federal initiatives such as Meaningful Use. But one common theme emerged time and again throughout the week: Money. read more Source: Special report: At CHIME13,…
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Hurdles to big data use in healthcare more social than technical
Are the real hurdles to using big data in healthcare social and not technical? A report authored by Gina Neff, a professor in the department of communication at the University of Washington in Seattle argues just that, saying that big data won’t cure us because although data-intensive modeling has immense potential, figuring out how to…
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IBM Research Unveils Two New Watson Related Projects from Cleveland Clinic Collaboration
IBM Research today unveiled two new Watson-related cognitive technologies that are expected to help physicians make more informed and accurate decisions faster and to cull new insights from electronic medical records. The projects known as “WatsonPaths” and “Watson EMR Assistant” are the result of a year-long research collaboration with faculty, physicians and students at Cleveland…