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2019: Healthcare IT gains new ground

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

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. The EHR vendor’s founder also discusses the state of interoperability, cloud computing and today’s sticking points in health IT.

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The The Five Biggest Areas of Opportunity for Digital Health

The Digital Health Corner

According to a study in the American Journal of Emergency Medicine ER physicians spend only 28% of their time in direct face to face patient contact and can go through 4000 computer mouse clicks in one shift. Increasing healthcare consolidation of hospitals has exacerbated the problem of lack of interoperability. Clinical trials.

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Three Big Questions for Stage 3 & Patient Engagement

Chilmark Research

For many, the delay of Stage 3 of the Meaningful Use program evoked a collective sigh of relief, providing a much-needed extra year to focus on the challenging requirements for patient engagement and interoperability. How Will the Market Respond?

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Judy Faulkner talks lessons learned from Epic's COVID-19 response

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Like with the electronic health record: The very first thing for our customers that has been studied is that the most important thing is good training, good learning. Studying the data from our customers' patients allows us to have access to somewhere between 100 million and 200 million patients right now.

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What Duplicate Patient Notes Reveal About Health Care and Its Records

Healthcare IT Today

A recent study in a JAMA publication, “Prevalence and Sources of Duplicate Information in the Electronic Medical Record,” helps drive discussion of bloat forward by focusing on one manifestation: the duplication of text from one patient note to another. And such a study might be hard to carry out. Follow the money.

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HIStalk Interviews Helen Waters, EVP, Meditech

HIStalk Interviews

Expanse for us represents the development over several years of an EHR that we designed for the post-Meaningful Use era. Introducing a system that was built around an environment that had shifted massively because of Meaningful Use has made people sit up and take notice of Meditech. We looked at CMS data.

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The Redox Podcast 50: Navigating rapid cardiology practice acquisition with US Heart and Vascular’s Cheryl Rodenfels

Redox

If you’re interested in learning more about US Heart and Vascular, check out their website, it’s USHeartandVascular.com. And of course, you can always find Redox, this podcast, and loads of information about the interoperability landscape at RedoxEngine.com. Check out our recent case study.

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