Dr. Edmund Billings shares his insights on the ICD-10 delay to 2015
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Health IT & Digital Health-Opinion | Op-Eds | Guest Columns | Analysis, Insights - HIT Consultant
Is the Phrase “Patient Engagement” Overused?
James Dias, Founder & CEO of Wellbe discusses how he believes the term "patient engagement" is headed towards passing its expiration date.
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2 Mantras That Never Fail to Materialize When EMRs are Discussed
Margalit Gur-Arie shares 2 EMR mantras that never fail to materialize when EHRs are discussed.
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5 Reasons US Digital Health Companies Should Expand to the UK
Dr. Saif Abed shares five reasons US digital health companies should be making strategic plans for expansion into the UK.
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Moving Clinical Data Aggregation Beyond Interoperability
In healthcare, having a complete picture of a patient’s health record is key to providing high-quality care. Yet that is seldom the case, even though a majority of physicians and almost all hospitals have implemented an Electronic Health Record (EHR) system.
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10 Things We Should NOT Blame Obamacare For
There is a new report out from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) titled “The Slow Recovery of the Labor Market”, and as its title implies, it predicts a slow recovery from a labor perspective. Among other things, the CBO report is now making headlines in the political game of Obamacare because it forecasts a 2.5 million job reduction by 2024 due to the effects of the health care law.
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Can Google Glass Transform Medical Education?
Google Glass looks exciting for the medical world, and presents a particularly powerful opportunity for medical education
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Improved Patient Engagement for Better Outcomes and a Higher Level of Care
The Great Divide: Some Closing Thoughts on HIMSS14
Walking the halls of the Orlando Convention Center at HIMSS14 this past week, I was aware of a great divide.
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What is the Future Role of EHRs in the Health IT Ecosystem?
What is the future role of EHRs? Dr. Robert Rowley shares his insights.
Some very interesting trends are occurring in the health IT arena, which raise the question of what role Electronic Health Records (EHR) systems will have in the future. A few years ago, the focus for health care professionals and hospitals was EHR acquisition and implementation, as well as qualification and access to federal incentive money from the EHR Incentive Program (Meaningful Use).
This year, as could be
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