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Practice Fusion to Pay $145 Million In Fines To Resolve Kickback Investigations

Healthcare IT Today

Practice Fusion, a San Francisco-based EHR vendor with a controversy-rich history, has agreed to pay $145 million to settle allegations that it engaged in a kickback scheme designed to increase opioid prescriptions and issues with their meaningful use EHR certification. This had been […].

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Finding the future of interoperability with Redox: Part 3 – How Carequality can solve disconnected data for digital health

Redox

healthcare providers via a network approach—with one business relationship and one integration go-live—as opposed to building many BAA-driven relationships and integrations with individual healthcare organizations and their EHRs. new test results) or you need to be able to write data back to their charts in EHRs.

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HIE Future is Bright - stepping into 2018

Healthcare Exchange Standards

Up to now we have focused on getting EHR to publish or simply make available the data they have. These will not happen in 2018, I am just predicting they will be the central motivations that will influence change. It is just way too hard to get right. The future will be more about automating the consumption.

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Is Patient Portal a Thing of the Past?

Healthcare IT Today

According to the Medical Group Management Association (MGMA) Stat poll, by 2018 patient portals were employed by about 90% of the surveyed providers. . healthcare providers’ initiative or, should we say, their need to comply with Meaningful Use. This federal regulatory document called for sharing EHR data with.

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Gearing up for Immunizations

Redox

Functionally, this type of tool is called an immunization registry , and, luckily for us, it has existed for decades. Immunization administration was a key workflow within the EHR; therefore, sharing that to the registry automatically seems like a no-brainer to reduce the burden on providers. The government thought the same.

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Short Takes at #HIMSS18 – Harlow On Healthcare

Health Blawg

Check out some of my other short takes from HIMSS 2018 , too. He sees an opportunity not only in connecting providers with different EHR systems serving common patients, but in applying these tools at the statewide HIE level. Check out some of my other short takes from HIMSS 2018, too. Comments Comments. Comments Comments.

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Short Takes at #HIMSS18 – Harlow On Healthcare

Health Blawg

Check out some of my other short takes from HIMSS 2018 , too. He sees an opportunity not only in connecting providers with different EHR systems serving common patients, but in applying these tools at the statewide HIE level. Check out some of my other short takes from HIMSS 2018, too. Comments Comments.