Most healthcare professionals understand how electronic health records (EHRs) can drive greater patient engagement and improve the quality of care. They also see the potential value of enhanced productivity and efficiency for their practices.
What's not as clear: how to choose the right EHR vendor or how to transition to a new EHR smoothly and within government guidelines. Whether you’re attesting for Stage 1 or Stage 2, this guide from CareCloud provides:
- an overview of Meaningful Use
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AMA-Led Coalition Urges ONC to Change EHR Certification
On Wednesday, a coalition of 35 medical societies led by the American Medical Association sent a letter to the ONC National Coordinator for Health IT Karen DeSalvo, M.D., urging to change the EHR certification program to "align to better align end-to-end testing to focus on EHR usability, interoperability, and safety."
The nine page letter to Karen DeSalvo states, “The undersigned organizations are writing to elevate our concern about the current trajectory of the certification of electronic
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Wheaton Franciscan To Spend $54M on Epic Implementation
Wheaton Franciscan Healthcare will reportedly spend $54 million to integrate Epic's EHR system in its 14 hospitals and more 70 physician offices, according to the Milwaukee Business Journal. The project will integrate clinical records between Wheaton Franciscan's hospitals and its physician offices that has already been running on Epic since 2012. Currently, clinicians at Wheaton Franciscan facilities can only view patients records from across the system; however, they enter any
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Mayo Clinic Chooses Epic for Integrated EHR & RCM System
Mayo Clinic announced today that Epic has been selected as its strategic partner for a single, integrated EHR and revenue cycle management (RCM) system. The new system will replace Mayo’s current three EHRs in use today and serve as the foundation for Mayo Clinic operations over the next several decades.
“We’re confident in choosing Epic as our strategic partner as we continue to enhance Mayo Clinic’s excellence in health care and medical innovation,” says John Noseworthy, M.D., Mayo
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Why Behavioral Health Acutely Needs EHRs
Exclusion from federal funding makes no clinical, economic or policy sense
A show of hands: Who believes depression or bipolar disorder have no impact on the severity and treatment of a patient’s diabetes and COPD?
It’s an idea no practicing physician would support. Yet time and again, we act as though mental illness and care can be kept separate from physical ailments.
Take Meaningful Use (MU), for example. The federal government believes healthcare must move into the digital age and is
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83% of Physicians Are Resistant to Use EHRs for Clinical Communications
83 percent of physicians expressed frustration using EHRs to support clinical communications due to poor EHR interoperability, limited EHR messaging capabilities and poor usability that makes it difficult to find relevant clinical data, according to a recent study by Spyglass Consulting Group. The report entitled Point of Care Communications for Physicians 2014 based on 100 doctors working in hospital‐based and ambulatory environments nationwide reveals physicians are universally (96 percent)
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Epic, IBM to Test $11B DoD EHR Bid at OHSU Simulation Lab
Yesterday, representatives from IBM visited Oregon Health & Science's Simulation Center that could play a key role in the $11B DoD EHR bid IBM, Epic is vying for, The News Tribune reports. If IBM, Epic wins the 10 year $11B federal contract, OHSU's Simulation Center in the new Collaborative Life Sciences Building would provide a state-of-the-art training environment for DoD clinicians. Additionally, Tacoma’s MultiCare Health Systems has been selected as the pilot installation site due to
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BT to Promote Medsphere’s Open EHR System
Medsphere Systems Corporation and BT have reached an agreement in which they will jointly promote Medsphere’s OpenVista® EHR under a software-as-a-service (SaaS) model, relieving hospitals of many costly and burdensome IT responsibilities.
Medsphere, the most experienced developer and implementer of VistA-derived electronic health record (EHR) solutions outside the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), will work with BT to promote the affordability of Medsphere’s business model and the proven
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athenahealth Acquires RazorInsights to Enter Hospital Market
athenahealth Acquires Atlanta based EHR provier RazorInsights to enter hospital inpatient market.
Cloud based ambulatory EHR provider athenahealth announced today it is entering the hospital inpatient market with the acquisition of RazorInsights, a cloud-based electronic health record (EHR) and financial solutions for rural, critical access and community hospitals. athenahealth plans to leverage RazorInsights' inpatient expertise and technology to extend its presence into the
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Epic, IBM Forms Advisory Group for $11B DoD EHR Bid
At a Washingon D.C. event on Wednesday, IBM Corp. and Epic Systems announced a 17-person advisory group that will help advise the Department of Defense (DoD) through implementation if they win the $11 billion DoD EHR contract, Modern Healthcare reports. The assembled advisory group is comprised of executives, physicians and Epic clients from 12 organizations as follows:
- Ross Martin, MD. Vice President of Policy and Development, American Medical Informatics Association.
- Monte Brown,
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