Patients’ online access to EHRs has nearly doubled, surging from 26 percent in 2011 to 50 percent in 2014, according to new study released by the National Partnership for Women & Families. In the last year, more than four in five patients with online access to their health records (86 percent) used their online records at least once – and more than half (55 percent) used them three or more times a year.
Engaging Patients and Families: How Consumers Value and Use Health IT offers an
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CMS: Meaningful Use Payments Tops $25.7B
As of December 1st, CMS has paid more than $25.7 billion in meaningful use payments to eligible hospitals and professionals, according to the latest CMS data. Elisabeth Myers, head of CMS' Office of eHealth Standards and Services made announcement on Tuesday during a Health IT policy Committee meeting.
MU Registation and Payment Data
CMS data reported 505,641 active participants in the meaningful use incentive program through October 2014 broken down by:
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Program To
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EHR Usability for Ongoing Optimization
Dr. Stephen Beck, CMIO at Mercy Health (formerly Catholic Health Partners) discusses how his organization is approaching EHR usability to deliver improvements in efficiency, care quality and provider satisfaction.
Nearly every day I read a new article about physician dissatisfaction with EHRs. There seems to be many reasons for this attitude. Part of it is the need for better data collection tools to ensure ongoing optimization to keep pace with changing regulations. For example, an October
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ONC Report: 26 Trends Driving Physician EHR Adoption
The need to share patient information with other providers and the use of financial incentives are key drivers in why many providers adopt and use health information technology tools like EHRs, according a data brief released today from the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC).
ONC Report Overview
The new data brief details why physicians decided to adopt – or not adopt –EHRs, and it helps to explain how financial incentives drive physician EHR adoption. Additionally, data
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EHRs Should Automate the Business of Medicine
EHRs should automate the business of medicine and eventually the science of medicine, while protecting the art of medicine. Margalit Gur-Arie shares her insights.
By the time the next decade rolls in there will be no paper charts. There will probably still be paper floating around in various capacities, but there will be no one charting on paper. The term “charting” itself may become obsolete, like yonder or popinjay. The term EHR, which is what replaces the paper chart, won’t
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NextGen Healthcare Earns KLAS Top Performance for Ambulatory RCM Services
NextGen Healthcare, a leading provider of healthcare information systems, services and interoperability solutions, announced today that its NextGen RCM Services offering has earned top ranking in the KLAS 2014 Ambulatory RCM Services “Uncovering Truths When Services Are Outsourced” report.
In the newly released report, KLAS, a leading healthcare technology ratings provider, ranks the best-performing healthcare IT vendors providing outsourced billing/revenue cycle management (RCM) on their
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Practice Fusion Signs Care Coordination Deals with 2 Clinically Integrated Networks
Practice Fusion, a cloud-based EHR platform today announced agreements with two provider networks to support their care coordination and accountable care initiatives. Oakland Physician Network Services and Citrus Valley Health Partners will offer Practice Fusion’s EHR to their physicians and healthcare providers, who can use the EHR to access data that can help them better understand the health of their patients. This means that a physician treating a diabetes patient can get information that
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Specialty EMR Provider, Modernizing Medicine Raises $15M
Cloud based, specialty-specific EMR provider, Modernizing Medicine has announced that it has closed $15M of an expected $20M in venture capital funding led by Summit Partners and Pentland Group. Many of the company's investors are medical specialists who use EMA bringing its total funding to $44M. The EMR provider currently serving eight different medical specialties, more than 4,000 providers have adopted Modernizing Medicine’s EMA in their practices.
Developed by surgical physicians, EMA
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Epic Systems to Offer Remote Hosting to Clients in 2015
Epic Systems is currently building a data center at its Verona, Wisconsin campus to offer remote hosting services to its clients targeted at medical groups and small hospitals, VentureBeat first reports. The decision brings the largest EHR provider closer to offering a software as a solution (SaaS) model that could help increase market share against its competitors such as Cerner, who has been offering remote hosting services since 1999. The remote hosting services will be offered first to new
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Like Scorpions, Closed EHR Systems Cause Paralysis
Take a step back from the challenges that surround health information technology (HIT) interoperability and you will recognize that market forces and a desperately fragmented health care system make hospitals and vendors act the way we do.
It calls to mind the fable of the scorpion and the frog, which is worth revisiting.
Wanting to cross a river, a scorpion spies a frog in the water and asks for a ride to the other side. Naturally afraid of being stung and killed, the frog hesitates, but is
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