It has been a rapidly changing landscape for health information technology these past few years. A lot of factors have contributed to this. Leading the policy has been the federal government instituting incentive programs to encourage health IT adoption.
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It has been a rapidly changing landscape for health information technology these past few years. A lot of factors have contributed to this. Leading the…
Say what you will about the pains of implementing an EHR or meeting the requirements for Meaningful Use. I’ll grant you that there are hiccups, roadblocks, stumbling points on the path to going digital. No doubt. But, you can’t deny that data doesn’t lie and when we measure data, we can manage it.
It has been a rapidly changing landscape for health information technology these past few years. A lot of factors have contributed to this. Leading the…
By Kathy Kenyon, JD – The ONC posted a final summary report on Health Information Technology Adverse Event Reporting: Analysis of Two Databases. Patient safety thrives in health care organizations where reporting of adverse events, including near misses and unsafe conditions, is encouraged.
Here is what is happening to make health information exchange happen. Santé and Encore connect with Inofile Kno2. e-MDs is first EHR to connect to Kansas registry. SHIN-NY joins with Healthix for patient alert system.
Meaningful Use (MU) audits will increase in 2015 and a growing area of concern for eligible hospitals and professionals is just now surfacing after 4…
Sue Schade, FCHIME, FHIMSS has been selected as the recipient of the 2014 John E. Gall, Jr. CIO of the Year Award. Schade is Chief Information Officer at University of Michigan Hospitals and Health Centers in Ann Arbor, one of the largest and most-recognized academic health systems in the country.
By Kathy McCoy – If you’re still debating whether to go with a web-based EHR or a server-based EHR, you should know why a growing number of practices are choosing to go with a cloud EMR. How does a web-based EMR differ from the older technology of a client server-based EHR system?