With rising healthcare costs and demands from healthcare reform initiatives, private medical practices are struggling to maintain their independence.
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Breathing Room for Meaningful Use Stage 3 Appears on the Horizon
Amid the abundant (and yet unanswered) pleas from all quarters to extend or delay Stage 2 comes some potential good news about the scheduling of Meaningful Use Stage 3: It’s becoming clearer and clearer that Stage 3 won’t start for anyone before 2017—at the earliest.
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Can Healthlier Compeitition Help Save Healthcare From Itself?
Can healthier competition help save healthcare from itself? Jonathan Bush, CEO of Athenahealth, takes questions at TEDMED 2013.
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Hospital Could Gain $1M In Reimbursement From Meaningful Use Stage 1
Southern Coos Hospital and Health Center in Bandon, OR could potentially gain as much as $1 million in reimbursement for attesting to Meaningful Use Stage 1, The World reports.
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The Metastasizing Complexity of Templated EHR Exam Notes
If physicians are struggling with templated EHR exam notes now, their problems are bound to be exacerbated as EHRs layer more and more levels of complexity.
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UK Healthcare CIOs Cite EHR & Mobile Health As Top Priority for Next 12 Months
67 percent of Healthcare CIOS in the UK select electronic patient records and mobile health solution technologies as top priorities for the next 12 months, according to a recent industry report by Healthcare IT Exchange.
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Health IT Is Not A Single-Minded Monolithic Being
Like young superheroes in blockbuster movies, health IT is blowing things up randomly, while trying to understand how it should apply these newfound powers. But health IT is not a single-minded monolithic being.
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Practice Fusion Guarantees Doctors Meaningful Use Stage 2 Readiness
Practice Fusion, today announced a guarantee that its free EHR will be ready for Meaningful Use Stage 2 by the end of 2013.
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4 Keys To A Successful CPOE Implementation
New white paper from PatientKeeper, provider of clinical and financial applications streamline physician workflow outlines 4 keys to a successful CPOE implementation.
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HIMSS Innovation Center Officially Opens in Cleveland
Today, the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) announced the official opening of the HIMSS Innovation Center in downtown Cleveland.
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