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2019: Healthcare IT gains new ground

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

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. But at the tail end of the 'teens, we see a flowering of innovation that could only have been dreamed of in 2010. by Healthcare IT News November 22, 2019.

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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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Toward a Wider Adoption of Digital Insurance Cards

Healthcare IT Today

So I was intrigued when Mark Scrimshire, chief interoperability officer of OnyxOS , introduced me to developments over the past few years that will make digital insurance cards feasible. Pollak says that any EHR supporting the SMART App Launch Framework can install an application to do the validation. Version 2.0

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Electronic Prescribing for Controlled Substances Set to Take Off

Healthcare IT Today

According to Dr. Colin Banas, chief medical officer at DrFirst , they initiated EPCS in 2010, partnering with the Massachusetts Department of Health. Integration with the EHR and electronic prescribing networks, such as Surescripts, allows prescriptions to be transmitted seamlessly to the pharmacy.

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Electronic Health Records : History, hurdles and the promise of Blockchain

Lloyd Price

Despite the widespread agreement that healthcare information technology has the potential to lead to safer, more efficient quality care, the implementation and adoption of Electronic Health Record Systems has faltered, both nationally and worldwide, not to mention the meaningful exchange of data, that will lead to better patient outcomes.