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Greenway’s Focus on EHR Optimization is Paying Off

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And it should be easy to use too. According to Dr. Blackman, when EHRs were first rolled out in the pre Meaningful Use days, the primary goals was to make billing easier and more accurate. 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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A Few #HealthPolicyValentines

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HealthPolicyValentines [link] — Jared Jeffery (@Jk_Jeffery) February 12, 2024 One more…I promise: Roses are red, data is blue, Computers are fun, But Meaningful Use sucks without you. Less fragmented health data. What does that mean for patients?

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From Paper to Pixels: The Future is Bright for Health Information Management

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Prior to the Meaningful Use incentives in 2005, only 20% of medical records were stored electronically. When I started my career in health information, I worked in the medical records department. HIM professionals have a long history of sharing health information – something that Mueller hinted was “baked into our DNA”.

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eClinicalWorks Goes from 0 to 60 with AI Throughout Their Product

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As such, the EHR product roadmap changed to ensure that you could meet the EHR certification and meaningful use requirements. When you combine an AI assistant with the powerful health data search in Prisma that looks across data from inside eCW and other outside EHR data, the benefits compound.

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ONC’s HTI-1 Places Undue Burdens on Healthcare Providers, Health IT Developers

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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.