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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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Patients and Industry: Starting Our New Life Together in 2023

Society for Participatory Medicine

Power to the patients continued to surge throughout the year, capped off by the ONC with the information blocking’s limitation on the scope of electronic health information (EHI) lifted as of October 6 , granting patients full real-time access to our medical records, despite 10 major healthcare industry groups’ opposition.

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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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What’s Next? The Future of Healthcare IT Social Media – #HITsm Chat Topic

Healthcare IT Today

Looking back to 2010, the health IT initiatives of that time consisted of getting up-to-speed as quickly as possible about Meaningful Use and helping to move health systems and clinical practices away from paper and analog processes to electronic and Internet-enabled technologies.

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Connected 'smart' communities will be a key part of 21st century healthcare

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

As part of its National Health IT Week program, HIMSS presented a webinar this week exploring the advent of what it calls the "Smart Communities-Cities Movement." Leave it to a place like Portland, Oregon, to already be modeling what these new ecosystems can look like.

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Short Takes at #HIMSS18 – Harlow On Healthcare

Health Blawg

We spoke a bit about the TEFCA — the interoperability framework proposed by ONC under the 21st Century Cures Act — which is intended to create a framework of trust that will ensure that healthcare records can be transferred and used in creation of longitudinal records for everyone. The Harlow Group LLC. David Harlow.