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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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Greenway’s Focus on EHR Optimization is Paying Off

Healthcare IT Today

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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Modernizing Medicine To Pay $45 Million To Settle False Claims, Kickback Allegations

Healthcare IT Today

EHR vendor Modernizing Medicine has agreed to pay $45 million to the federal government to settle a whistleblower suit alleging that the vendor engaged in varied kickback schemes as well as causing its provider customers to submit false claims. For example, in 2021 CareCloud Health agreed to pay $3.8

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eClinicalWorks Goes from 0 to 60 with AI Throughout Their Product

Healthcare IT Today

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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Finding the future of interoperability with Redox: Part 3 – How Carequality can solve disconnected data for digital health

Redox

healthcare providers via a network approach—with one business relationship and one integration go-live—as opposed to building many BAA-driven relationships and integrations with individual healthcare organizations and their EHRs. new test results) or you need to be able to write data back to their charts in EHRs.

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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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Parsing eCW’s $155M payment to the government

Docnotes

One example from USDA : Turning Point for Meat Inspection In 1905, author Upton Sinclair published the novel titled The Jungle , taking aim at the poor working conditions in a Chicago meatpacking house. EHR purchase / deployment / optimization is a multi-year initiative. The ECW case is a great example of why I disagree.

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