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Five Digital Health Imperatives for Patient Safety

The Digital Health Corner

Improving health literacy. Health literacy is defined as the degree to which individuals have the capacity to obtain, process, and understand basic health information and services needed to make appropriate health What does health literacy have to do with patient safety? I would like to highlight a few.

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EHR Incentive Programs: Moving into the Next Stage

CMS.gov

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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3 Ways Consumers are Putting the Pressure on Health Plans

Healthcare IT Today

Thanks to the rapid development and push for digital tools and apps to track vaccination status, reactions to the vaccine and future dose reminders, and COVID-19 test results, health care consumers are growing increasingly aware of what it means to have access to their health information.

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Parkview Health gets 70% of patients onto Epic portal, home of its telehealth programs

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

"But perhaps none is more important than our electronic health record, as it serves as the backbone of our communications between providers and patients." " Parkview Health made strategic moves in 2012 to implement and integrate Epic as its EHR for all hospitals and providers.

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When sponsored CDS is a crime …

Docnotes

Today, The Department of Justice issued an announcement that was “the first ever criminal action against an EHR vendor.” The core of the criminal action was something inevitable: the tension between better health and better profit. ” Criminal action.

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How RPM & PERS Offer More Data-Driven Insight to Healthcare Organizations

Clear Arch Health

EHR integration with your RPM Program. One of the most powerful ways to ensure that the knowledge gained from patient RPM data is used by all their providers is with EHR integration. Optional EHR integration. At Clear Arch Health, we are committed to providing up-to-date, turnkey solutions. Ready to use device kits.

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How Do Patient Portals and Personal Health Records Differ?

Lloyd Price

TETHERED PERSONAL HEALTH RECORDS VERSUS PATIENT PORTALS A tethered PHR, as defined by the ONC, is an online interface tied to an EHR with which patients may view and sometimes interact with their health data. The patient accesses the information through a secure portal,” ONC says.