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CMS EHR Incentive Payments Flirt With $7 Billion
Medicare and Medicaid electronic health record payments are approaching $7 billion since its inception, with $6.9 billion paid out to 143,800 physicians and hospitals in total program estimates through the end of August. Read More »
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Health IT, At Least On The Big Island, Starts With Fresh Vegetables And Gardening
The first step for gaining patient buy-in for the use of health IT may start with fresh vegetables and gardening, a gateway to start thinking about and owning your health. Read More »
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How EHR Design Can Affect Patient Safety
Besides the importance of physician happiness when using an EHR, using design principles that maximize user intuition and presentation of relevant information, there is one aspect of health care information systems that should never be overlooked: patient safety. Read More »
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ONC Chief Urges Vendors To Go For Blue Button ASAP
Farzad Mostashari, MD, the national health IT coordinator, has challenged vendors to make it easy for consumers by early 2013 to view, download and transmit to another party their health information in the form of a Blue Button feature. Read More »
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ONC Drops Pursuit Of NwHIN Governance
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT has dropped pursuit of a regulation for establishing “rules of the road” for the nationwide health information network (NwHIN) based on feedback it has received. Read More »
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OSEHRA: The Coming Health Care Singularity
Healthcare singularity is now on the horizon and will happen rapidly as patients and physicians begin to interact outside the institutional EHR context.
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