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To Drive Value, EHRs Need to Actually be Usable

Healthcare IT Today

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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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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2019: Healthcare IT gains new ground

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Of course, that's been the case every year over the past decade since the first meaningful use checks were mailed out, kickstarting the digital healthcare age as we know it. Epic CEO Judy Faulkner on Apple, docs who actually like their EHRs and Warren Buffett. by Mike Miliard February 13, 2019. by Mike Miliard July 05, 2019.

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Sheri Rawlings, CIO, San Juan Regional Medical Center, Chapter 2

Health System CIO

When Sheri Rawlings started as CIO at San Juan Regional more than 4 years ago, the EHR picture in the physician community was dire. In this interview, Rawlings provides her honest take on Meaningful Use — and why it’s much more challenging for community hospitals, and the strategy she employs when introducing change.

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What Duplicate Patient Notes Reveal About Health Care and Its Records

Healthcare IT Today

This task won’t be solved by any single organizer or sector; the AMIA calls on providers and health systems, Health IT vendors, and policy and advocacy groups to join the effort. This seems to me a reasonable way to identify duplicates, although one can question what happens when an EHR automatically generates text.

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Cash is Queen Says RCM Experts

Healthcare IT Today

We are passionate and dedicated to working with healthcare partners, RCM leaders and clinicians to put our extensive pool of primary-sourced data to meaningful use. Joining me today is a group of experts who will be sharing their insights with us on the before and after affects of technology adoption on the revenue process.

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