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MU Study Suggests That A Health IT Divide May Be Emerging Among Physicians

Healthcare IT Today

In retrospect, we probably should have predicted that once Meaningful Use was put into place, some physicians would be better situated than others to take advantage of the program.

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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. New study outlines challenges, dangers for machine learning. 2019: Year in Review It's been an eventful year for health IT. needs a plan.

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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. EHRs were designed as documentation centers for billing and regulatory purposes. in the approval process of drugs. Social Media.

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Welcome Back Kotter: New York’s next 1115 Waiver

Docnotes

Maybe this is just semantics – but the term “research” invokes years of study and papers written in academic journals. We need front-line, agile program definition, rapid-cycle outcome analysis and the ability to change course when the evidence directs us. there’s quite a bit to this part, which is the problem.

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Review of Mobile Devices and Health by Ida Sim in the NEJM

mHealth Insight

43 A recent development may offer hope: the federal government’s “meaningful use” requirements for EHR certification are calling for greater interoperability through an emerging data-exchange standard called Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR). 44 FHIR allows external third-party apps to integrate into the EHR workflow.