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Who: HealthcareITnews.com What: The association between mental health and physical health has a long history, yet the two disciplines often are viewed as disparate pieces of patient care. Making this link between a patient’s physical and mental well-being is becoming paramount in terms of streamlining a patient’s medical lifecycle. Bridging the gap is essential for […]

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 […]

Bribing Doctors Towards EMR

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Free computers not enough to convince doctors of investing in EMR An article in Information Week described an attempt by WellPoint Health Networks Inc. to encourage its physicians to switch to electronic records or prescriptions by giving them a total of $42 million worth of PDAs and PCs. Alas, about one in four of the […]