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What Person-Centered Interoperability Looks Like: Seqster

Health Populi

Our desire for data liquidity has eluded us across the health/care ecosystem for too long, notwithstanding American taxpayers’ $35 bn investment in EHRs dating to the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 that embedded the HITECH Act funding EHR adoption for hospitals and physician practices.

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Regulators Need to Pay More Attention to Long-term and Nursing Care

Healthcare IT Today

But these facilities are afterthoughts in our health care system, and were excluded in particular from the huge digitization of health care triggered in the United States by the 2009 HITECH act and 2010 Affordable Care Act. The next step would be to achieve real interoperability in health records, a still elusive goal.

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How Digital Health Can Stimulate Economic Development

Health Populi

It’s National Health IT Week in the US, so I’m kicking off the week with this post focused on how digital health can bolster economic development. As the only health economist in the family of the 2018 HIMSS Social Media Ambassadors, this is a voice through which I can uniquely speak. out of the Great Recession. GDP, in 2018.

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When is E-prescribing Mandatory for Psychiatrists?

TheraNest

E-prescribing is the electronic transmission of a prescription directly from a provider to a pharmacy using a special technology called an EHR (electronic health record). E-prescribing via EHR systems improves accuracy by making prescriptions easier to read. In this post, we aim to answer both questions. Better Accuracy.

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The Chronic Care Model and its Key Elements

DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

Here are some of the evidence: In a 2009 study on the evidence of the Chronic Care Model in the new millennium , it was found that the Chronic Care Model can improve patient care and create better health outcomes. However, the Chronic Care Model offers approaches that could help us address this critical public health crisis.

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Welcome Back Kotter: New York’s next 1115 Waiver

Docnotes

Those with political power will retain it, and true public health decisions will be elusive. . Investments in Social Determinant of Health Networks (SDHNs) Development and Performance. We have certainly seen this with Covid-19, where elected county leaders made decisions that were in conflict with public health objectives.

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Weekender 5/17/19

HIStalk Weekender

A large survey of clinicians finds that the #1 predictor of positive EHR experience is training, with EHR personalization also being a major contributor. The EHR is just not that platform. Here are some hard truths: clinical data isn’t shared because it doesn’t profit your doctor and the health system to do so.

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