Margalit Gur-Arie | HIT Consultant Contributor

Margalit Gur-Arie is a founder of BizMed, a company devoted to supporting practicing physicians through software and services that simplify the business of medicine. Margalit has served in executive and consulting roles at various Health IT companies and her mission is to support and strengthen independent private practice, particularly in rural and underserved areas.

Alternative Health Information Technology

by Margalit Gur-Arie 09/09/2013 12 Comments

A quick look at what is driving health care costs up reveals that physicians as a group are cheerfully adopting a host of high tech tools that would terrify the average technophobe. So why is health information technology so different?
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Meaningful Use Stage 2 Beta – A Suggestion

by Margalit Gur-Arie 09/04/2013 5 Comments

It’s that time of year again when Meaningful Use conversations heat up because all sorts of deadlines are approaching, and as expected, nobody is ready.
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Cost Effectiveness of Health Information Exchanges

by Margalit Gur-Arie 08/19/2013 16 Comments

Does the most cost effective method of establishing health information exchanges consist of a nationwide network of big-iron servers and Federal protocols?
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10 Steps To Prepare Your Mobile Health App for Monetization

by Margalit Gur-Arie 08/06/2013 25 Comments

So you released a mobile health app, now what? While waiting for your creation to do its thing and fix health care, there are some steps you can take to increase the odds of its success.
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Holy EHR Wars: The Promise of Health Technology

by Margalit Gur-Arie 07/30/2013 16 Comments

Margalit Gur-Arie writes about the growing dissension between the EHR adoption supporters and those critics who dispute the ROI of EHRs and Meaningful Use.
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Should the DoD Buy Epic, or Cerner, or GE, or…?

by Margalit Gur-Arie 07/23/2013 12 Comments

The Department of Defense (DoD) is in the market for an EHR solution… again.
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Healthcare Transformation – It’s Not Personal, It’s Business

by Margalit Gur-Arie 07/08/2013 20 Comments

Why are we transforming health care? Why do we feel compelled to act with such urgency and in such broad reformative strokes?
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Spinning EHR Adoption Numbers?

by Margalit Gur-Arie 06/20/2013 4 Comments

Margalit Gur-Arie provides a compelling look into spinning EHR adoption numbers of office based physicians, hospital, and Meaningful Use reports from the HHS.
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EMRs Were Designed for Billing and Not Optimized for Patient Care

by Margalit Gur-Arie 06/03/2013 15 Comments

EMRs were designed for billing, so let’s unleash that power, instead of trying to convert them into something they cannot be at this point in time.
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10 Steps To A Blockbuster Health IT Startup

by Margalit Gur-Arie 05/20/2013 22 Comments

A comprehensive 10 step roadmap to a blockbuster health IT startup for aspiring HIT entrepreneurs.
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