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Who: MedCityNews.com What: Providers are now having trouble with interoperability and conversions of data.The majority of physician offices have implemented EHRs, but they must now communicate with other entities such as HIEs and ACOs. With the increase in mergers and acquisitions, we are also seeing an increased demand for conversions from one system to another. […]
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Who: MedCityNews.com What: Different studies have shown the use of EMR systems to have been extremely beneficial to providers and patients while others have shown the use of EMRs to increase the incurred costs drastically. For a doctor looking to implement EMR at the office, reports suggesting varied conclusions can be very confusing. Recently, the […]
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Who: GovHealthIT.com What: On April 2, 2013, the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) made available their updated data table for EHR Incentive Program (Meaningful Use) attestations, with specification as to which EHR products were used. The initial file, published on data.gov in 2012, showed the first year of experience of Meaningful Use, […]
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Who: StarTribune.com What: Love of detective work is, believes Wendy Tester, an essential trait for a medical coder. “I liked the Encyclopedia Brown books as a kid,” she said. “A procedure should be supported by the diagnosis. You don’t do a colonoscopy if the patient has an ear infection.” After learning on the job for […]
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Previously I wrote about how information technology (IT) personnel are an increasingly important part of medical practices as EMR becomes a fact of life, as well as the challenges that administrators face in recruiting and hiring these individuals. A question I commonly receive is whether or not it is better to outsource IT or hire […]
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A frequent criticism of EMR (electronic medical records) use in medical practices – typically coming from those who have not used EMR – is that it causes the doctors to become impersonal. The typical picture described is one of a practitioner with his or her back to the patient, pecking away at the keyboard. Most […]
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EMR projects get ‘hijacked’ every day. Some get hijacked by vendors, some get hijacked by consultants and, yes, some even get hijacked by the very doctors who invested in the project in the first place – an investment that was supposed to help them treat their patients, run their offices and collect their money. While […]
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Previously I wrote about outsourcing your IT services support as well as how to hire an IT director. But one question that I am commonly asked is, “How do I decide whether to keep IT services in-house or whether they should be out-sourced?” Electronic medical records systems have become an integral part of the practice […]
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Robert Schwab, M.D., chief quality officer at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Denton and Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Allen, sings “The Ballad of Go-Live,” a wry chronicle of exasperation and ultimate success in implementing the CareConnect electronic health record at Texas Health Denton. CareConnect is now fully integrated into operations at all 13 wholly-owned facilities in […]