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The annual MGMA conference gives medical practices an opportunity to learn, collaborate and network with peers. Always Forward was the theme for this year’s conference held in Las Vegas this year. One topic everyone seemed to be talking about was next year’s ICD-10 deadline.
Research company Frost & Sullivan have released their latest health IT report, EHR Usability—CIOs Weigh in On What’s Needed to Improve Information Retrieval. The study was conducted in conjunction with CHIME and looks at key issues affecting clinical data contained in EHRs.
In these Health IT Adoption infographics, see how the body can be a source of big data, how healthcare IT is transforming, how physicians are adopting health IT, and what the costs are of data center outages in healthcare.
On our MGMA 14 interview with the CEO of Navicure, Jim Denny talks about how forward-thinking medical practices are handling the rise in patient responsibility due to higher deductibles and co-pays. He also talks about the lack of progress made in transitioning to ICD-10.
Going along with this year’s theme of Always Forward, it came as no surprise that many companies made a point to demonstrate the ways they are working toward proactive healthcare. Be it through predictive analytics, care coordination, quality measurement, or patient engagement, the overarching goals to help practices better meet the needs of their patients, to address the issues that impact healthcare, and to drive excellence shined through.
As most organizations have now adopted EHRs, getting systems to work together is the next big challenge on the horizon. Earlier this year, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) published a 10-Year Vision to Achieve an Interoperable Health IT Infrastructure.
At MGMA14 in Las Vegas, we spoke with Greg White, Senior Vice President and General Manager of Allscripts TouchWorks business unit. In the interview, Greg shared his thoughts on how open platform systems are key to advancing interoperability.
Over the past several years I’ve written about the inadequate state of clinical documentation, which is largely unchanged since the days of Osler, (except for a bit more structure introduced by Larry Weed in the 1970s) and was created for billing/legal purposes not for care coordination.