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To Drive Value, EHRs Need to Actually be Usable

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The following is a guest article by Khalid Al-Maskari, Founder and CEO of Health Information Management Systems (HiMS) EHRs are ubiquitous because they’re useful – but how useful are they really, and to whom? The truth is that an EHR by definition serves multiple masters, satisfying some more than others. The upshot?

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Greenway’s Focus on EHR Optimization is Paying Off

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Greenway Health continues to focus their efforts on optimizing their EHR. Michael Blackman, Chief Medical Officer at Greenway Health to learn more about the company’s EHR optimization activities. Job #1 for an EHR “An EHR should help people provide better care,” Dr. Blackman stated emphatically. It’s just that simple.”

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Brain Health, Cybersecurity, EHRs, and Chatbots at ViVE2023

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A More Unified Solution – CPSI CPSI is well known as an EHR vendor in the rural health and community health market. To help all healthcare organizations implement proper cybersecurity measures, Wright suggests that governments consider a funding program like Meaningful Use which accelerated the adoption of EHRs.

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Weekly Roundup – April 27, 2024

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Their conversation touched on Ambient Assist in the mobile EHR, making Mirth Connect GDPR compliant, and partnering with CrowdStrike on zero trust. Read more… Exchanging, Managing, and Meaningfully Using Health Data in 2024. Read more… Health Data Sharing Impacts How Clinicians Care for Patients.

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eClinicalWorks Goes from 0 to 60 with AI Throughout Their Product

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We’ve only seen a few times where something has dramatically changed the EHR product roadmap. The first time this happened was when the HITECH act and associated $36 billion of stimulus money was included to stimulate adoption of EHR software. In order to get access to that stimulus money, you had to use a certified EHR.

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314e Transforming from Services to Products

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During the boom that was meaningful use and adoption of EHR software, consulting companies played an integral role in almost every large healthcare organization when it came to rolling out EHR software. Now that we’re […].

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From Paper to Pixels: The Future is Bright for Health Information Management

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They are no longer paper pushers (literally) and are now stewards of healthcare data. Prior to the Meaningful Use incentives in 2005, only 20% of medical records were stored electronically. We are collecting so much data now,” continued Mueller. It’s now up to us to ensure that data is accurate, timely, and useful.