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Practice Fusion to Pay $145 Million In Fines To Resolve Kickback Investigations

Healthcare IT Today

Practice Fusion, a San Francisco-based EHR vendor with a controversy-rich history, has agreed to pay $145 million to settle allegations that it engaged in a kickback scheme designed to increase opioid prescriptions and issues with their meaningful use EHR certification. This had been […].

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Is Patient Portal a Thing of the Past?

Healthcare IT Today

According to the Medical Group Management Association (MGMA) Stat poll, by 2018 patient portals were employed by about 90% of the surveyed providers. . healthcare providers’ initiative or, should we say, their need to comply with Meaningful Use. This federal regulatory document called for sharing EHR data with.

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Short Takes at #HIMSS18 – Harlow On Healthcare

Health Blawg

Check out some of my other short takes from HIMSS 2018 , too. Gerard Scheitlin, Chief Risk Officer – VP Security, Risk & Assurance, Orion Health. He sees an opportunity not only in connecting providers with different EHR systems serving common patients, but in applying these tools at the statewide HIE level.

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Short Takes at #HIMSS18 – Harlow On Healthcare

Health Blawg

Check out some of my other short takes from HIMSS 2018 , too. Gerard Scheitlin, Chief Risk Officer – VP Security, Risk & Assurance, Orion Health. He sees an opportunity not only in connecting providers with different EHR systems serving common patients, but in applying these tools at the statewide HIE level.

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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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Healthcare CIOs Face New Pressures and Novel Opportunities

David Chou

In fact, Black Book Market Research raised some eyebrows with its 2018 study that found healthcare CIOs losing influence in IT purchasing to departmental managers. Besides focusing on EHR optimization, organizations see automation as a way to become more efficient and cut costs, Chou adds. Technology has become more of a commodity.

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