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If you are medical or surgical specialist, you’re probably groaning about the prospect of implementing some of the meaningful use criteria. According to an article on Healthcare Technology Online: Every one of the six core clinical quality measures (and most of the 38 additional clinical quality measures) are focused on primary care. Moreover, the recently-formed, […]
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What are the Benefits of EMR?
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More Pros and Cons of EMR
Although the implementation of EMR is becoming federally mandated, it is still an useful exercise to look at the pros-and-cons. Here is a concise summary from Physicians Practice from a legal perspective. Most of the ‘cons’ are cost-related, though practices can offset these significantly by qualifying for meaningful use incentives as well as for PQRI […]
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The Certification Commission for Health Information Technology (CCHIT), one of the two entities approved for certifying electronic health records (EHR) systems, has just announced the first wave of EHR/EMR products (33 for now) officially achieving Stage 1 certification. The ONC-ATCB 2011/2012 certification program tests and certifies that [a particular] EHR technology is capable of meeting […]
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From our partners at SoftwareAdvice.com we bring you this free white paper on the Ten Steps to Selecting the Right Medical Software. Just click on the link below to download the pdf.
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The Office of the National Coordinator for Information Technology (ONCHIT) has announced the first two companies that have been authorized to test and certify EHR (electronic health records) systems, according to a report by the American Academy of Family Practice. CCHIT (The Certification Commission for Health Information Technology), one of the entities, is no big […]
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From the folks of AHIMA (American Health Information Management Association) comes a nice and concise overview of the final rule of the Meaningful Use provisions for electronic medical records implementation. AHIMA is one of the largest associations of health information management (HIM) professionals and was founded in 1928 – which I am pretty sure pre-dates […]
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For those of you who are at the stage of EMR implementation where it is time to decide on the EMR software system, we have a new resource which I think you will find very useful. Medical Practice Trends has partnered with the folks at SoftwareAdvice.com to give you an EMR Software Checklist. They have […]