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    Why Medical Practices Can’t Use GMail

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    Much of the new regulatory information coming out of Washington is getting increasingly more difficult to translate into English. I was recently asked whether a medical practice could use Google’s free email service GMail instead of spending money on a mail server and its associated server software. After checking with our own head of IT, […]

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    Putting Meaningful Use in Your Practice

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    A recent article in the AMA news discussed some of the continued ambiguities of the “Meaningful Use” prerequisites handed down by the Health IT Policy Committee. Nevertheless, it does give everyone an idea of where they are headed. Generally speaking, meaningful users are defined as healthcare-providers who are using E-Prescribing, that their EMR technology is […]

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