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Doctors should start watching more science fiction. Here’s why.

KevinMD

I often say that electronic health records (EHRs) is like Skynet in the Terminator. I expect to turn around from my screen someday, and Arnold will lift me by my throat saying, “You haff not been doing yuh meaningful use.” Your patients are rating you online: How to respond. Find out how.

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How To Decide Which Mental Health Practice Software is Right for You

TheraNest

How to Select the Best Mental Health Practice Software for Your Practice. Choosing mental health software for electronic health records (EHR) can be tricky. From practice size to growth trajectory to deciding to do your own billing–every detail must be accounted for to ensure you choose an EHR system that is the best fit for you.

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Is Patient Portal a Thing of the Past?

Healthcare IT Today

healthcare providers’ initiative or, should we say, their need to comply with Meaningful Use. This federal regulatory document called for sharing EHR data with. It would be helpful to create a simple user guide explaining to patients how to interact with the portal. In fact, it was. Stage 2 requirements. Patient portals.

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Healthcare Innovation Funding – Regulations and Disrupting Traditional Models

Healthcare IT Today

To get a better idea on what policies and regulations you need to be aware of and just how to get access to innovation funding, we reached out to our ever so talented Healthcare IT Today community for their insights and knowledge. Here is what they had to say. Since the U.S. Since the U.S.

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Advice to the new National Coordinator

Docnotes

Because the 2011 certification criteria and Stage 1 meaningful use requirements were too vague about the data that would be used to measure quality. Quality measures are still proposed without consideration for the data that EHRs have captured. Why was this?

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Healthcare CIOs Face New Pressures and Novel Opportunities

David Chou

Besides focusing on EHR optimization, organizations see automation as a way to become more efficient and cut costs, Chou adds. They also are trying to figure out how to create the next-generation patient experience using technology.” Optimizing the EHR to improve clinician productivity 2.

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FDA and Digital Health Regulation

Health Blawg

” We also need to remember that these issuances come in the context of the broader agency approach to digital health, an ongoing struggle with how to regulate in this arena. Comments Digital health figures in FDA's 2018 strategic roadmap. by David Harlow […] article was originally published on HealthBlawg and.