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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. Monitoring could also reduce readmissions and other costs.

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Elation Health Adds to Leadership Team to Accelerate Growth Across Primary Care Market

Digital Health Global

Natt is responsible for supporting customers and growing sales impact, as well as driving revenue operations for the primary care-focused EHR platform. He oversees the expansion of Elation’s market-leading EHR, utilized by clinicians in hundreds of practices across 50 states, as well as Elation’s Billing software and additional product lines.

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Weekender 6/7/19

HIStalk Weekender

A KLAS report on newly developed small-hospital inpatient EHRS from Athenahealth, EClinicalWorks, Epic, and Meditech finds that only Meditech has brought sites live. Interoperability became a regulatory issue because despite making all that money on MU largesse, EHR vendors were not moving the ball on interop. NonInterOp ).

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The Big Consult: Major Criteria for Adopting a Digital App or Service

Healthcare IT Today

The opposite can happen too easily, as the industry saw after the adoption of electronic health records in the 2010 decade. According to Cindy Gaines, chief clinical transformation officer at Lumeon , many organizations just adapted their paper process to their new EHR and didn’t realize the efficiencies they expected.

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Weekender 8/10/18

HIStalk Weekender

However once you hit “whole organization” level systems, as you do with an organization-wide EMR/EHR, putting a bit of distance between you and the primary vendor becomes important. Theresa Brown, RN, PhD notes that doctors generally ignore those feelings as documented in the EHR’s nurse notes. Brian Too ).

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Weekender 9/28/18

HIStalk Weekender

VA Secretary Robert Wilkie tells the Senate VA Committee that he and representatives at the DoD are working to create a “single point of authority” for their respective EHR projects with Cerner. This is probably one reason why PDF Healthcare, a 2010 Best Practices Guide (BPG) supplemented by an Implementation Guide (IG) (i.e.,

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Weekender 4/19/19

HIStalk Weekender

And right now, the EHR is such a PIA that for the foreseeable future, garbage-in is winning. The first two companies use Tiempos (pictured above), created in 2010 for a Spanish newspaper to be easily readable on newsprint. Contribute regularly as a provider CIO, IT director, or informatics nurse (anonymous or not). Get Involved.

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