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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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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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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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It seems that the importance of physician ‘buy-in’ is a hot topic these days. An article on Healthcare Technology Online, John Santangelo, director of information technology at Cleveland Clinic Florida, describes three different types of physicians as they relate to the success of EHR implementation: Old-school Docs – most set in their way and most […]
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EMR and the Generation Gap
What is the quickest way to figure out how to use a new electronic device? Read the manual? No – hand it to a child and let them play with it for a few minutes and show you how it works. But the converse is true as well: if you hand it to an older […]
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Could Canadian physicians lose their jobs if they don’t go paperless? In an article in the Canadian Medical Association Journal, a leading health administrator, speaking at an e-Health conference in Toronto, proposed that physicians in Canada face stiff penalties, including firing, if they do not adopt the use of electronic medical records systems. According to […]
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MPT Podcast 11 – Five Best Practices for EHR Implementation, with guest Chris Mertens, VP of the Personal Systems Group for Hewlett-Packard. This Issue: Why you should take a good look at your processes before purchasing an EMR system How to minimize lost productivity Why installation of an EMR system is not the final step […]