Dr. Donald Voltz discusses how infectious diseases such as Ebola, enterovirus D68, and flu is pushing EHRs into the job of a central communications hub.
The recent spate of infectious diseases identified in the US-whether Ebola, enterovirus D68 or just the beginning of the plain old flu season, healthcare has become increasing complex. It involves more players in terms of patients, providers, administration, insurance , governmental bodies and now CDC screeners at airports. This leaves
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EMR Optimization: 96% of Healthcare Providers Infrastructure Not Fully Ready
When it comes to EMR optimization, healthcare providers lack the infrastructure to take advantage of FutureCare-enabling technologies (cloud, Big Data, mobile, and social).
96 percent of healthcare organizations say their infrastructure is not fully prepared for the evolution of their EMR today, according to a new study from EMC and MeriTalk. The report explores how FutureCare-enabling technologies (cloud, Big Data, mobile, and social) are driving profound change and how deployment of these
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Shareable Ink Expands Partnership with Allscripts
Anesthesia information management system (AIMS) provider, Shareable Ink, today announced a preferred partnership agreement with Allscripts, for its Allscripts Sunrise business unit. Shareable Ink provides a full AIMS documentation solution supporting pre-op, intra-op, and post-op, and capturing key quality measures that are critical to outcomes reporting. Shareable Ink will also extend the Allscripts Sunrise platform with additional point-of-care clinical documentation solutions using Allscripts
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Practice Fusion Expands Cloud EHR Platform to Puerto Rico With 3 New Partners
Practice Fusion, the nation’s largest cloud-based electronic health records (EHR) platform, today announced strategic partnerships with three of Puerto Rico’s premier health service companies, ASSERTUS Inc., Atlantic Pathology and HRP Labs. The partnerships are part of Practice Fusion’s effort to support the region’s doctors and their ability to participate in the healthcare ecosystem.
ASSERTUS Clearinghouse’s medical billing software ProClaim® is one of Puerto Rico’s largest medical billing
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Study: Physicians Are Capturing More Structured EHR Data than MU Requires
Only 7 percent of structured EHR data in a typical patient note is required in order to meet Meaningful Use, according to a new study by clinical documentation vendor WebChartMD. The percentage only slightly rose to 9% when lab data was present. The study analyzed one hundred de-identified orthopedic and cardiovascular patient notes obtained from MTSamples.com revealing how EHRs can place excessive data entry burden on physicians.
The report found as much as 91 to 93 percent of data
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Practice Fusion and Quest Diagnostics Partner for Electronic Lab Test Ordering
Today, cloud-based EHR provider Practice Fusion and Quest Diagnostics, has announced a partnership agreement that will allow a tip-to-tail electronic lab test ordering and management for Practice Fusion’s community of more than 112,000 medical professionals.
Partnership Details
Beginning as early as the first quarter of 2015, providers that use the Practice Fusion EHR and receive results electronically from Quest Diagnostics will also be able to place laboratory test orders electronically to a
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EHR Design and Dissatisfaction: EHRs Should Create Time for Patients
Dr. Edmund Billings shares his insights on the growing trend of dissatisfaction with EHR design.
As reported last year at HIMSS and by many online news and opinion sources since, physician dissatisfaction with EHRs is growing. Indeed, while this article does not focus on the broader picture, general physician career dissatisfaction is disconcertingly high.
The breakneck push for more and better EHR use as a component of regular medical care is a significant part of that malaise, but it is
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Epic Retains Lobbyists To Improve Its Interoperability Image on Capitol Hill
EHR juggernaut Epic Systems has hired lobbyists Card & Associates to improve its reputation of not being interoperable with other EHR systems on Capitol Hill, Modern Healthcare reports. According to the federal Lobbying Disclosure Act database, Epic retained the firm in August to "educate members of Congress on the interoperability of Epic's healthcare information technology.” In a recent July hearing, Rep. Phil Gingrey (R-Ga.) claimed Epic's System were "closed records" utilizing a RAND
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HHS Issues Final Rule For Additional Flexibility for EHR Certification
Health information technology (IT) developers, providers and consumers will get more flexibility through a final rule issued today by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
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3 Keys to Maximizing the ROI of Your EHR
A 2013 study from the University of Michigan School of Public Health finds that practices that implement an EHR without a laser focus on enhancing revenue and cutting costs are likely to lose more than $43,000 over five years. In other words, 73% of those surveyed failed to see a ROI.
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