Dr. Luis Saldana, MD, MBA, FACEP , Associate Chief Medical Information Officer at Texas Health Resources shares his key takeaways from Epic UGM 2012
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Why Being a Quick Learner in Healthcare IT Doesn’t Matter
A Healthcare IT recruiter's frustrating perspective on candidates who are not a good fit for a particular HIT position who feel that being a "quick learner" will help them overcome this roadblock
If I had a dollar for every time I've heard [perfect_quotes id="8122"] in my recruitment career I could retire right now. It seems to be a theme when someone is told that they do not have the right qualifications for the role they have applied for.
Now I'm not completely lacking compassion. It is
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3 Healthcare IT Trends for 2013 and Beyond
3 Healthcare IT trends that shares Thomas Edison's vision for healthcare in 2013 and beyond
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How to Determine if Your Mobile EHR is Useful
Written by Ahmed Mori, Content Writer for CareCloud outlines what features make mobile EHR system useful
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10 Ways to Make EMR Meaningful and Useful
Written by Rob Lamberts, MD providing his thoughts on 10 ways to make EMR meaningful and useful
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Meaningful Use The Stats [Infographic Wednesdays]
Greenway Medical infographic provides a visual overview of Meaningful Use EHR Incentive Program payments, registration, and attestations.
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4 Ways to Improve Clinical Document Capture
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
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
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
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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