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4 Ways to Improve Clinical Document Capture

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 Written by David McKanna, product marketing manager at Nuance “Business Week predicted the paperless office in 1975, when it was thought that computer records would completely replace paper.  In the next two decades after that pronouncement, paper use doubled.” This quote is taken from Persistent Paper: The Myth of “Going Paperless” from AMIA which provides a relevant list of reasons why paper is still widely used in healthcare.  Even fully electronic (Stage 7) hospitals still receive
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ONC Chief Farzad Mostashari States Nobody Has Transformed Care Delivery Without IT

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Last week, the Health Forum and American Hospital Association Leadership Summit was held in San Francisco, CA.  The overall theme of the leadership summit was getting from the first curve to the second curve creating the value proposition on how hospitals implement health information technology. During the summit, Matthew Weinstock, Senior Editor of Hospitals and Health Networks sat down with ONC Chief Farzad Mostashari, M.D. to discuss some of the trends he sees in health IT
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Infographic: Our Healthcare Referral System is Broken

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Our healthcare referral system  is broken infographic created by Refferal MD highlights some of the key factors that contribute to a broken healthcare referral system Referral MD created the following infographic shown below that highlights a key pain point in the healthcare referral system management process that despite healthcare providers adopting an EMR system, they are still utilizing paper. A large percentage of processes in healthcare involve documents and forms that must be scanned
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74% of Physicians Report EHR Adoption Enhanced Patient Care

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2011 Physician Workflow Survey key findings stated that physicians’ experiences with EHR adoption is largely positive and EHRs have enhanced patient care The CDC's Center for National Health Statistics (NCHS) has issued a data brief announcing estimates from the 2011 Physician Workflow Survey regarding the physian EHR adoption, which is sponsored by the ONC. Overall, in 2011, 55% of physicians in office-based practices had adopted EHRs and 45% had not. Differences were observed between
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Do EHRs Make Patients Safer?

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Written by Ahmed Mori, Content Writer for Care Cloud There is an ongoing debate as to whether or not EHRs actually make patients safer. Sure, doctors using electronic health records boast fewer malpractice claims – Harvard Medical School reports that malpractice claims for physicians using EHRs tally in at one-sixth of the total of malpractice claims for physicians who haven’t yet implemented a system. That’s fine and dandy, but what about your patients? Can you make them safer with your
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Smart & Safe: Consumer Technology in the Healthcare Enterprise

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Contributed by Carl Cresswell, CTO at Clinithink on consumer technology in the healthcare enterprise In recent years, the technology landscape has been dominated by innovations aimed  at consumers.   Instant Messaging (IM), Voice Over IP (VOIP), smartphones and social networking have become universally available and transformed the way many of us communicate with friends, family and even colleagues.  The result is a growing expectation among the “tech savvy” that such technology is not only
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