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Meaningful Use – What you need to know at every stage from HIMSS From GE Healthcare comes this video showing the current roll out of Meaningful Use Stage 1 criteria as well as Stage 2 and Stage 3 projections.
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According to an article on NetworkWorld.com, the EMR/EHR market in the US will reach $6 billion by 2015. And where there’s money, there is crime. In recent years there has been a surge in data breaches, and as medical practices move into the digitized world more and more of these cases will involve patient data. […]
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MPT Podcast 24 – Scanning Paper Records Into Your EMR System: Setting Up An Action Plan, with guest Mary Pat Whaley of ManageMyPractice.com. Ms. Whaley discusses some tips and best practices based on her extensive experience advising medical practices. This Issue (8:12): The importance of ‘storyboarding’ your strategy for paper chart conversion How to decide […]
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With apologies to Will Smith fans (Fresh Prince era): Here´s what eligible providers need to know about getting incentive dollars from CMS for the meaningful use of electronic health records in under 3 minutes. The American College of Medical Informatimusicology presents the Meaningful Yoose Rap, written and performed by Dr. HITECH, aka Ross […]
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Many new EHR users currently view clinical quality measures as just another item on the checklist towards demonstrating meaningful use. However, veteran EHR users like Northwest Health Services, Inc., which has been using EHR for 7 years, sees clinical quality measures as an important tool that enables providers to distinguish between perceptions and reality when […]
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An overview by AthenaHealth Yes, it is a commercial. But it is a clever overview of the what the HITECH Act is all about, especially if you consider yourself a newbie when it comes to EHR and Meaningful Use. So grab some popcorn and enjoy.
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MPT Podcast 21 – Leveraging the Resources of Health Information Exchanges, with guest Mike Meikle, Hawkthorne Group. This Issue (5:08): What is a Health Information Exchange? How can you keep your practice from being left out in the cold? Ways your small practice can leverage technology larger entities are using Right-click to download
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The HITECH Act: Electronic Health Records and Meaningful Use This short educational animated video made by Capture Billing highlights the key features of the HITECH Act, Meaningful Use, and Stimulus Money for EHRs and what it means for you and your practice.
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What are Health Information Exchanges (HIEs) and what do they mean to your practice? An article on Economist.com describes new rules proposed by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to help create HIEs. Although the rules state that each state is to have an HIE by 2014, if a state does not create […]