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ONC’s HTI-1 Places Undue Burdens on Healthcare Providers, Health IT Developers

Healthcare IT Today

While the EHR Association has long supported the goals of the proposed rule, called Health Data, Technology, and Interoperability: Certification Program Updates, Algorithm Transparency, and Information Sharing Proposed Rule (HTI-1), we have a number of real concerns about the impact it would have on the industry if finalized as proposed.

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What Duplicate Patient Notes Reveal About Health Care and Its Records

Healthcare IT Today

The American Medical Informatics Association began a project to reduce patient documentation to 25% of its current volume by 2025. This seems to me a reasonable way to identify duplicates, although one can question what happens when an EHR automatically generates text. Bloat in patient notes has been alarming doctors for some time.

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