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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.

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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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The The Five Biggest Areas of Opportunity for Digital Health

The Digital Health Corner

Digital health is unquestionably becoming part of healthcare lexicon and fabric. Electronic health records (EHRs) and personal fitness trackers have helped create awareness through use. EHRs were designed as documentation centers for billing and regulatory purposes. From a provider standpoint. Clinical trials.

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Healthcare Innovation Funding – Regulations and Disrupting Traditional Models

Healthcare IT Today

government introduced the meaningful use program as part of the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act in 2009, LTPAC organizations – notably nursing homes – and the vulnerable patients they serve have been left behind. Since the U.S.

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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 would you like to change HIPAA?

Health Blawg

The HIPAA regulations are, for the most part, an extraordinarily flexible set of standards that have managed to remain relevant and useful even as the nature of the generation, storage, use and transmission of health information has undergone a sea change in the years since they were first promulgated.

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How would you like to change HIPAA?

Health Blawg

The HIPAA regulations are, for the most part, an extraordinarily flexible set of standards that have managed to remain relevant and useful even as the nature of the generation, storage, use and transmission of health information has undergone a sea change in the years since they were first promulgated.

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