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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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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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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. The DEA has allowed EPCS during a telehelath visit since the beginning of the COVID-19 public health emergency. Another bill, the EPCS 2.0

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Parsing eCW’s $155M payment to the government

Docnotes

In this case, the government moved to protect the public because a subset of meat packers was putting profit above public health. public outcry caused the government to step in and regulate the industry. EHR purchase / deployment / optimization is a multi-year initiative. After Health IT Certification.

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How Virtual Care Is Solving Chronic Disease Challenges

GlobalMed

Maybe you remember an ominous report from the World Economic Forum and the Harvard School of Public Health which predicted chronic diseases would cost the global economy more than U.S. $30 30 trillion between 2010 and 2030. Another advantage: radical cost savings for payers, patients, and healthcare systems.

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2015 Trends for Rural Hospitals and Rural Healthcare

BHM Healthcare Solutions

According to the NC Rural Health Research Program there have been 56 rural hospital closures since 2010. Implementing EHR and Cloud Computing. Implementing EHR (electronic health records) systems has been on the rural hospital horizon for some time. Article on Cloud Based computing and Rural Healthcare: [link].

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150 top places to work in healthcare

Henry Kotula

Atlantic Health System (Morristown, N.J.). Atlantic Health System, which employs over 16,000 team members across northern New Jersey, was included in Fortune’s 100 Best Companies to Work For from 2010-17. Eskenazi Health (Indianapolis). Cerner (Kansas City, Mo.). Nordic (Madison, Wis.).