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The The Five Biggest Areas of Opportunity for Digital Health

The Digital Health Corner

Electronic health records (EHRs) and personal fitness trackers have helped create awareness through use. According to most recent statistics from the Office of the National Coordinator, use of EHRs has increased from 20% in 2004 to 87% in 2015. We need EHRs which are clinically oriented with good user interfaces.

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All my HIMSS coverage in one place

Meaningful HIT News

Tavenner: 2014 is your last chance for a hardship exemption for Meaningful Use 2 (Feb. DeSalvo: True EHR interoperability – and a national HIE – is possible by 2017 (Feb. Interoperability Showcase uses car crash to show how connected data really can improve patient care (March 5).

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Welcome Back Kotter: New York’s next 1115 Waiver

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GRHEOs will require (much) less funding than the HERO defines – and will have less responsibility – focusing only on need definition and coordination of county health and prevention services with SDHN and HIE/QE activities. Goal #4: Creating Statewide Digital Health and Telehealth Infrastructure.