Editor's Note: D'Arcy Gue is one of the co-founders of Phoenix Health Systems, a healthcare IT consulting and outsourcing firm. In April 2015, Phoenix welcomed a merger with Medsphere Systems Corporation and now serves as the vice president of industry relations for Phoenix Health Systems, the health IT services division of Medsphere.
Acute care hospitals have demonstrated what happens when you pay people—when you incentivize them—to do something.
Just 9.4 percent of
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“Failed” Promise of EHRs May Stand in Way of Precision Medicine
On Tuesday, U.S. Senator Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) said that the “failed promise” of the $28 billion EHR program may stand in the way of a precision medicine initiative until physicians are able to use systems that communicate with one another. The statement was made during the committee’s innovation initiative to examine how we get safe drugs, devices, and treatments from the discovery process through the regulatory process into the medicine cabinets and doctors’ offices more quickly and
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KLAS: Epic, Cerner Rated Highest for Acute Care EMR Usability
Physician leadership at 110 healthcare organizations have rated Epic and Cerner highest for acute care EMR usability over the past two years, according to the latest KLAS report. The latest KLAS report, entitled “Physician Leadership Weighs In on Acute Care EMR Usability,” finds:
- Epic leads the industry in usability performance
- Cerner’s customers are making the most usability progress
- MEDITECH has distinguishes themselves as having "made up the most ground."
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Former Hospital CFO Ordered to Pay $4.5M for Meaningful Use Fraud
Former Shelby Regional Medical Center CFO, Joe White has been ordered to pay more than $4.5 million in restitution for his role in a meaningful use fraud scheme, KXXV first reports. White pleaded guilty for directed its EHR vendor, eCareSoft and hospital employees to manually enter data from paper records into the EHR system after the patient was discharged to meet the MU thresholds criteria. Additionally, White also made false statements regarding other hospitals had successfully converting to
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Senate Health Committee Announce EHR Improvement Workgroups
On Wednesday, Senate health committee Chairman Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) and Ranking Member Patty Murray (D-Wash.) announced a bipartisan, full committee working group to identify ways to improve electronic health records (EHRs).
“After $28 billion in taxpayer dollars spent subsidizing electronic health records, doctors don’t like these electronic medical record systems and say they disrupt workflow, interrupt the doctor-patient relationship and haven’t been worth the effort,” said
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Sen. Alexander Urges HHS Secretary To Fix Problems with EHRs
Last Thursday in a Senate Appropriations Subcommittee hearing on the FY2016 budget request from the Dept. of Health and Human Services (HHS), Sen. Alexander asked HHS Secretary Sylvia Burwell if she would commit to working to fix the problems with the electronic health record (EHR) system:
“Doctors don’t like their electronic medical record systems by large,” he said. “They say they disrupt the work flow. They interrupt the doctor-patient relationship. They haven’t been worth the
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Cerner Integrates EHR & Engagement Platform with Healthwise Patient Education Resources
This week, Healthwise and Cerner announce an agreement to integrate Cerner's EHR and online engagement platform HealtheLife(SM) with Healthwise's patient education resources. Together, the integration will gives individuals access to evidence-based health education across the continuum of home, work, or care settings. Individuals can now expect to receive consistent educational content through Cerner's integrated member engagement solutions, including Cerner's online health and wellness
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Epic to Waive Record Sharing Fees
EHR leader Epic announced this week during HIMSS15 that it will no longer charge a fee to exchange patient records between Epic customers and non-Epic customers through a module formerly called Care Elsewhere, Modern Healthcare first reports.
Data sharing services with Non-Epic customers have since been bundled into Epic's other interoperability module, Care Everywhere. “We're not going to charge for Care Everywhere for at least until 2020,”said Epic CEO Judy Faulkner in an interview
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Is Machine Interoperability the Next Unusable Level of Meaningful Use?
As the HIMSS15 extravaganza is getting under way, and every EHR vendor flush with cash from the Meaningful Use bonanza is preparing to take its unusable product to the next level, machine interoperability is shaping up to be the belle of the ball.
Interoperability in health care is all the rage now. After publishing a ten year interoperability plan, which according to the Federal Trade Commission(FTC) is well position to protect us from wanton market competition and heretic innovations, the
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#HIMSS15: 70% of Physicians Believe Health IT Decreased Patient Engagement
Despite U.S. doctors’ increased use of technology, more than two-thirds (70 percent) of them believe that health IT has decreased the amount of time they spend with patients, according to a new survey by Accenture. The findings revealed during HIMSS15 is part of a six-country survey of more than 2,600 physicians, including roughly 600 in the United States found about three-fourths (76 percent) of those surveyed believe that interoperability of the tools currently available limits their ability
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