Healthcare IT Today

MAY 15, 2023

Greenway Health continues to focus their efforts on optimizing their EHR. Michael Blackman, Chief Medical Officer at Greenway Health to learn more about the company’s EHR optimization activities. Job #1 for an EHR “An EHR should help people provide better care,” Dr. Blackman stated emphatically. It’s just that simple.”

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 11, 2023

A More Unified Solution – CPSI CPSI is well known as an EHR vendor in the rural health and community health market. To help all healthcare organizations implement proper cybersecurity measures, Wright suggests that governments consider a funding program like Meaningful Use which accelerated the adoption of EHRs.

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KevinMD

DECEMBER 12, 2017

I often say that electronic health records (EHRs) is like Skynet in the Terminator. I expect to turn around from my screen someday, and Arnold will lift me by my throat saying, “You haff not been doing yuh meaningful use.”

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KevinMD

OCTOBER 19, 2019

As an early adopter of EHR since 2003 and a self-avowed "techie," I can vouch for the fact that many of the government initiatives in HIT, like "meaningful use," […]. Find jobs at Careers by KevinMD.com. Search thousands of physician, PA, NP, and CRNA jobs now.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

EHR vendor Modernizing Medicine has agreed to pay $45 million to the federal government to settle a whistleblower suit alleging that the vendor engaged in varied kickback schemes as well as causing its provider customers to submit false claims. The lawsuit was filed in 2017 by law firms Phillips and Cohen LLP and Downs Rachlin Martin PLLC.

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FierceHealthIT

MAY 30, 2018

With Meaningful Use incentives dried up, EHR vendors are finding some success among smaller hospitals that don't have the capital for a massive EHR overhaul but need to keep pace with tech advancements.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 7, 2022

For all its good and ill, meaningful use drove action and adoption of EHR in healthcare. What made the difference? Ok, $36 billion in stimulus money helped. However, the key to change was healthcare organizations having a common goal.

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FierceHealthIT

JANUARY 16, 2019

The feds have been pounding at physicians for years with the Meaningful Use program, which has been great at gaining EHR adoption and needed digitization of a paper-based industry, but it seems the pendulum has finally hit a wall. Doctors aren't going to like the solution to this problem, though.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 29, 2020

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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FierceHealthIT

MARCH 15, 2019

In a whistleblower lawsuit, two former senior IT executives at Community Health Systems allege the healthcare system submitted hundreds of millions of dollars in false claims to HHS to receive federal meaningful use incentive payments.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

During the boom that was meaningful use and adoption of EHR software, consulting companies played an integral role in almost every large healthcare organization when it came to rolling out EHR software. Now that we’re […].

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 26, 2023

We’ve only seen a few times where something has dramatically changed the EHR product roadmap. The first time this happened was when the HITECH act and associated $36 billion of stimulus money was included to stimulate adoption of EHR software. In order to get access to that stimulus money, you had to use a certified EHR.

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Electronic Health Reporter

MAY 31, 2023

Electronic health records (EHRs) have revolutionized the healthcare industry, streamlining patient care, improving efficiency, and enhancing communication among healthcare providers. This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

But just like comparing different types of aircraft, the options for EHR solutions are widely separated in terms of complexity. The right cloud-based EHR solution is ideal for underserved and isolated providers. The right solution can also offer a roughly 50% reduction in time and cost management of EHR infrastructure.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 27, 2024

Their conversation touched on Ambient Assist in the mobile EHR, making Mirth Connect GDPR compliant, and partnering with CrowdStrike on zero trust. Read more… Exchanging, Managing, and Meaningfully Using Health Data in 2024. NextGen’s Investments in Mobile, Cybersecurity, and Interoperability.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 7, 2023

While the EHR Association has long supported the goals of the proposed rule, called Health Data, Technology, and Interoperability: Certification Program Updates, Algorithm Transparency, and Information Sharing Proposed Rule (HTI-1), we have a number of real concerns about the impact it would have on the industry if finalized as proposed.

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Redox

MAY 6, 2024

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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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 21, 2021

Since its founding in 2005, MAeHC has worked to improve the safety, efficiency and quality of healthcare delivery in the state by guiding organizations in the implementation and meaningful use of health IT. It has also spearheaded interoperability, standards development and HIT policy initiatives.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Of course, that's been the case every year over the past decade since the first meaningful use checks were mailed out, kickstarting the digital healthcare age as we know it. Epic CEO Judy Faulkner on Apple, docs who actually like their EHRs and Warren Buffett. by Mike Miliard February 13, 2019. by Mike Miliard July 05, 2019.

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Health Blawg

DECEMBER 25, 2017

I spoke recently with Dr. Rob Lamberts – @doc_rob on Twitter – about EHRs and direct primary care. Rob was an early adopter of electronic health records in his practice, after having been exposed to EHRs during his training. When implementing the EHR in his practice, he focused on fitting the EHR to his practice, not vice versa.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Rapid EMR adoption and implementation fueled by the generous government incentive program (Meaningful Use) EMR Consolidation. If I were to map out the phases of EMR, it would look like this: EMR Adoption.

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CMS.gov

MARCH 4, 2013

Growing EHR Adoption and Meaningful Use. In January, we passed the 210,000 mark for the total number of providers, including nearly 200,000 eligible professionals, who received a Medicaid or Medicare incentive payment for successfully adopting, implementing, or upgrading or meeting meaningful use of EHR technology.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 29, 2019

In retrospect, we probably should have predicted that once Meaningful Use was put into place, some physicians would be better situated than others to take advantage of the program.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 29, 2021

EHR developer athenahealth has agreed to pay $18.25 In its complaint, the US Justice Department claimed that athenahealth violated the False Claims Act and Anti-Kickback Statute by running questionable marketing programs.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Join us as we discuss the biggest topics of the last decade and also the hot topics for 2019. Government Regulations – Meaningful Use. Here's a summary of some of the top topics we discuss: Last Decade. Cloud Acceptance. Cybersecurity Explosion. Healthcare Consolidation. Physician Burnout. * Big Tech Entering Healthcare.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Prior to the Meaningful Use incentives in 2005, only 20% of medical records were stored electronically. Putting Paper in the Rearview Mirror It wasn’t that long ago that HIM professionals were responsible for managing paper medical records. The era of rolling shelves, paperclips, and Dictaphones ended less than 20 years ago.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 20, 2019

It seems like an eternity that we’ve been writing about government regulations like Meaningful Use, HITECH, MIPS, MACRA, and a bunch of other abbreviations that many would like to forget, but can’t because they’re still a part of many organizations’ daily lives.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 6, 2022

healthcare providers’ initiative or, should we say, their need to comply with Meaningful Use. This federal regulatory document called for sharing EHR data with. In fact, clinicians may also benefit from them when it comes to patients’ medical data, especially clinical notes and EHRs. In fact, it was. Stage 2 requirements.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Whether you’re looking at CMS compliance, population health efforts, Payer to Payer APIs, or EHR connectivity, they can help make sharing […]. For those not familiar with 1upHealth, the provide a FHIR platform for payers, providers, and developers.

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Health Blawg

DECEMBER 25, 2017

I spoke recently with Dr. Rob Lamberts – @doc_rob on Twitter – about EHRs and direct primary care. Rob was an early adopter of electronic health records in his practice, after having been exposed to EHRs during his training. When implementing the EHR in his practice, he focused on fitting the EHR to his practice, not vice versa.

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Health Blawg

DECEMBER 25, 2017

I spoke recently with Dr. Rob Lamberts – @doc_rob on Twitter – about EHRs and direct primary care. Rob was an early adopter of electronic health records in his practice, after having been exposed to EHRs during his training. When implementing the EHR in his practice, he focused on fitting the EHR to his practice, not vice versa.

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Health Blawg

DECEMBER 25, 2017

I spoke recently with Dr. Rob Lamberts – @doc_rob on Twitter – about EHRs and direct primary care. Rob was an early adopter of electronic health records in his practice, after having been exposed to EHRs during his training. When implementing the EHR in his practice, he focused on fitting the EHR to his practice, not vice versa.

Primary Care 60

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Health Blawg

DECEMBER 25, 2017

I spoke recently with Dr. Rob Lamberts – @doc_rob on Twitter – about EHRs and direct primary care. Rob was an early adopter of electronic health records in his practice, after having been exposed to EHRs during his training. When implementing the EHR in his practice, he focused on fitting the EHR to his practice, not vice versa.

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TheraNest

AUGUST 4, 2019

Choosing mental health software for electronic health records (EHR) can be tricky. From practice size to growth trajectory to deciding to do your own billing–every detail must be accounted for to ensure you choose an EHR system that is the best fit for you. One of the most important issues surrounding EHR is the security of records.

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Docnotes

MAY 31, 2017

EHR purchase / deployment / optimization is a multi-year initiative. You don’t want your patients / competitors / peers to know that your EHR doesn’t work as expected. The argument is that ONC has no place creating certification criteria for capabilities that aren’t part of “meaningful use.”

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Clear Arch Health

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Understanding that patient compliance is crucial for rapid patient adoption, Clear Arch Health integrates its devices with a patient’s electronic health record (EHR) to supply a steady stream of data to healthcare teams that enable them to remain informed, in real time, about any changes in a patient’s health.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Having a certified EMR qualified physician practices for government incentive dollars to digitize medical records (similar to the meaningful use program in the US, just on a smaller scale). In the past, OntarioMD has been responsible for Certifying EMRs.

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