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EHR Certification Process: 'Massive' Changes Ahead?
Health IT Policy Committee wants to streamline process, limit scope of certification
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EHR Clinician Complaints: Is it all about you, or the patient?
An interesting article about electronic health record (EHR) systems and the continued resistance from some clinicians. According to this article by Paul Levy, "In many places, doctors and nurses resent having to enter data into the computer. They say that it interferes with their communication with the patient and takes up too much time." Read More »
EHR debacle leads to paper-based care for Coast Guard servicemembers
The botched implementation of an electronic health records system sent Coast Guard doctors scurrying to copy digital records onto paper last fall and has disrupted health care for 50,000 active troops and civilian members and their families. Five years after signing a $14 million contract with industry leader Epic Systems, the Coast Guard ended its relationship with the Wisconsin vendor, while recovering just more than $2.2 million from the company. But it couldn’t revert back to its old system, leaving its doctors reliant on paper.
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EHR Failure Partly To Blame For VA Troubles
In a wide-ranging critique of federal IT, former defense secretary Robert Gates says the inability to set up an electronic health record system linking the Pentagon and the VA is one of his 'chief regrets.’...
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EHR Incentive Payments Climb Toward $24 Billion
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services have paid out $23.7 billion in electronic health record incentives under the meaningful use program through last month — up from $22.9 billion in April, according to Elisabeth Myers, policy and outreach lead at the CMS Office of eHealth Standards and Services at the June 10 monthly Health IT Policy committee meeting...
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EHR Makers Among America's Fastest Growing Companies
Health IT vendors and EHR makers in particular are once again faring quite well on the list of fastest growing companies. Inc. Thursday published its hallmark annual ranking of America's 5,000 fastest growing companies, and found 377 — or 8 percent — to be healthcare related...
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EHR Meaningful Use Incentives Top $14.5B
As of the end of April, the federal government has paid out $14.6 billion in EHR incentive payments, according to Robert Anthony, deputy director of the HIT Initiative Group at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ Office of E-Health Standards and Services. Read More »
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EHR Payouts Climb Near $25 Billion
Electronic health records incentive payments to eligible hospitals and providers have continued their upward trend, with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services paying out a whopping $24.4 billion to date...
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EHR Replacement: Addressing Data Ownership And Migration
In many cases, an EHR replacement ends up being even more complicated than an initial implementation. Clinicians now have a laundry list of complaints about the first system and may be vocal in demanding specific changes that a new EHR must include.
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EHR Uptake Disrupts Mobile Growth
Survey takes measure of mobile adoption patterns in healthcare...
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EHR Usability Cause Of Key Pain Points For Healthcare CIOs
EHR adoption is increasing, but EHR usability remains a problem for end-users trying to enter and access data efficiently...
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EHR Use Hindered by Revenue Loss, Lack of Interoperability
EHR use has been on the rise since the 2009 passing of the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act provided financial incentives for EHR implementation. However, do the gains of EHR adoption outweigh the substantial costs? A recent study written by Tara O’Neill of the American Action Forum takes a look at these questions and states that although there are considerable benefits to EHR adoption, these come with costs that can only be resolved with changes in healthcare policy...
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EHRA: Data Should Follow The Patient
The HIMSS Electronic Health Record Association told U.S. senators that, in general, a patient's healthcare data should follow the patient, and it also called for a nationwide patient data matching strategy...
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EHRs Cause Physicians To Lose 48 Minutes Per Day, Survey Says
As a physician, free time is a scarce enough commodity without having to factor in convoluted EHR workflows and frozen computers, but a large number of providers surveyed by the American College of Physicians (ACP) are still reporting significant productivity losses due to their EHR technology...
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EHRs Key To Medication Reconciliation
Electronic health records have a big role to play in improving hospitals' medication reconciliation, a new study finds, but challenges related to data quality, technology and workflow remain...
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