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Encouraging Data for Meaningful Use Advocates
The debate and drama over meaningful use won’t end any time soon, even after Farzad Mostashari’s bold declaration that a timeline alteration to Stage 2 isn’t likely to come. While those in favor of changing the program will push ahead, recent data falls on the side of those in favor of keeping it intact. Last…
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HIMSS Analytics: Virtualization, voice recognition markets to watch
HIMSS Analytics’ Autumn 2013 report, “Essentials of the U.S. Hospital IT Market,” highlights the market potential and projected accelerated growth for virtualization software and speech recognition. read more Source: HIMSS Analytics: Virtualization, voice recognition markets to watch
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Usability and Electronic Health Records
User Centric is now a part of GfK! Read about our EHR Usability Consulting services by visiting http://www.gfk.com/solutions/ux/health/Pages/EHR-Usability-Co… Video Rating: 0 / 5
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Technology in healthcare: Why docs shouldn’t feel threatened
While some, such as venture capitalist Vinod Khosla, have predicted that as much as 80 percent of a doctor’s job could be replaced by computers in the decades ahead, the split in duties likely will end up more equal, a commentary published this week in National Journal argues. read more Source: Technology in healthcare: Why…
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CHIME’s 2014 public policy efforts: Meaningful Use, HIE, patient data matching on docket
Meaningful Use, information exchange, patient data matching and electronic quality measurements are among the areas of focus in 2014 for the public policy arm of The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives. read more Source: CHIME’s 2014 public policy efforts: Meaningful Use, HIE, patient data matching on docket
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HIEs Find Niche as Accountable Care Platforms
After struggling for many years to find sustainable roles in the health care system, health information exchanges, both public and private, seem to be a natural fit for the world of accountable care. Where care coordination is essential, HIEs bring disparate information about one patient together. After struggling for many years to find sustainable roles…
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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…