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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

2019: Year in Review It's been an eventful year for health IT. 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. Health IT implementation best practices. Collection. by September 30, 2019.

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To Drive Value, EHRs Need to Actually be Usable

Healthcare IT Today

Patient Centricity Any clinician, staffer, or group should be easily assigned to any patient’s care team, immediately creating an intimate information-sharing ecosystem (not unlike a social media chatroom) focused on the patient and the workflow. For many clinicians, EHRs have actually been a disservice, a major factor in burnout.

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

Health System CIO

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. LISTEN NOW USING THE PLAYER BELOW OR CLICK HERE TO SUBSCRIBE TO OUR iTUNES PODCAST FEED. Overall, I think the groups have adopted it.

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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. The American Medical Informatics Association began a project to reduce patient documentation to 25% of its current volume by 2025.

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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. 00:00:09] Colin Hung : Hi and welcome to Healthcare IT Today, where we explore the latest healthcare technology trends and discover valuable insights in health IT.

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