Tag: unique
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Health info of transgender patients warrants ‘special attention’
Clinicians who deal with the unique needs of transgender patients should use electronic health records differently than they do for non-transgendered patients, according to a recent perspective piece by the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) EHR Workgroup published in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association . read more
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The Toad and the Snake
Over the weekend while working in the orchard, I found a small garter snake trying to eat an enormous toad, pictured above. Did the toad not realize that by wriggling its feet, it could easily escape? Was the toad unaware of the impending threat? Might the toad have given up and thought that the end…
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EHR Benefit – Eliminate Staff
It’s time for the next installment in my series of posts looking at the long list of EHR benefits . Eliminate Staff The idea of eliminating staff is a really hard one to talk about. Often the staff in a medical office becomes a family and so it’s really hard to think about losing a…
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Rural Hospital EHR
As I mentioned in my previous post on EHR Penalties and Meaningful Use Failure , I had a really good discussion with Stoltenberg Consulting about rural hospital EHR at HIMSS this year. While Stoltenberg no doubt works with hospital systems of every size, I could tell that they had a real affection for the rural…
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The March HIT Standards Committee Meeting
The March HIT Standards Committee focused on streamlining test scripts for certification, an overview of FDA Universal Device Identifier rule making, clinical summary formats for Long Term Care, and the latest updates from ONC.
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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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eHealth: Aligning Quality Measurement at CMS
By Patrick Conway, MD, MSc Stage 2 of the Medicare and Medicaid Electronic Health Record (EHR) Incentive Programs The next step on the path of meaningful adoption of health information technology (HIT) for providers—will launch later this year for hospitals and next year for eligible professionals. How will this next phase improve health care and…
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Launch of Connect 4.0 – An HIE Advancement Driven by Federal Collaboration
I am excited to announce that today, February 11, 2012, we are releasing CONNECT version 4.0, which supports the current federal IT standards and Meaningful Use Stage 2 core objectives related to the secure electronic exchange of information. This is done through CONNECT’s support of Direct project specifications and NwHIN transports (i.e., electronically sending and…