Wall Street Journal recently posted an article about Dr. Hammond from the Westminster Medical Clinic in Denver – a 3 provider, 22 staff member, 6,300 patient family practice clinic struggling to stay afloat. They are faced with a myriad of financial issues including lack of reimbursement under traditional insurance contracts. To showcase the financial severity of his practice, Wall Street Journal provided the following snapshot:
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E-Prescribing Controlled Substances: The Time is NOW!
Written by Irene Froehlich, Director of Marketing at DrFirst
The healthcare industry has been talking about the benefits of e-prescribing for years. By now, the advantages offered to your practice and your patients—through increased workflow efficiency and reduced medication errors—are obvious.
However,making e-prescribing for controlled substances (EPCS) available to physicians has proven to be more of a challenge. This has frustrated providers, patients, and loved ones of patients alike.
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Interview/Podcast: Tiffany Crenshaw, CEO of Intellect Resources Talks Big Break Pt. 1
Looking for an innovative way to hire healthcare IT trainers and provide an unique opportunity for inexperience professionals to break into the healthcare IT industry? In comes "Big Break", an American Idol styled audition process where candidates compete to become a healthcare IT trainers that will instruct healthcare professionals on the use of a sponsored healthcare provider's EMR system.
HIT Consultant recently spoke with brainchild of Big Break, Tiffany Crenshaw, President & CEO of
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The Awkward Adolescence of Healthcare IT
No one can deny that healthcare is at a crossroads. Current thought leaders like Atul Gawande and Richard Baron have proposed that history will label our current time period as the “healthcare revolution”. The introduction and adoption of electronic medical records will have an impact no less powerful than the cotton gin had during the industrial revolution.
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Partners Healthcare Considers Epic Systems for Integrated Statewide System
Partners Healthcare, the state's largest healthcare provider in Massachusetts is currently in negotiations with Epic Systems to replace it's existing number of various electronic health record systems that was built in-house with a single EHR solution. The transition is expected to cost over $600 million over 10 years will move Partners in the right direction towards a more integrated, statewide system for sharing medical records. Epic Systems will allow each patient a single up to date record
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What is Data Governance? And Why Does it Matter?
Written by Rita Bowen MA, RHIA, CHPS, SSGB, Sr Vice President of HIM and Privacy Officer of HealthPort
The What
If you look up governance in the dictionary, it states that governance is the act of governing. Not very revealing, is it?
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Survey: Resistance to Workflow as Leading Obstacle to CPOE Adoption
Imprivata announces the results of its 5th annual survey examining IT trends in healthcare reporting resistance to workflow changes as the leading obstacle to CPOE adoption
Imprivata, the leader in secure access and collaboration for healthcare, announced this week the results of its fifth annual survey examining IT trends in healthcare. According to this year’s findings:
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Allscripts Swallows Poison Pill to Avoid Hostile Takeover
Allscripts Healthcare Solutions, Inc. announced on Monday adopted a shareholder rights plan, also commonly called a "poison pill" to protect itself from any potential hostile takeover
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Philosophy of EHR: Form and Function
Written by Ahmed Mori, Content Writer at CareCloud discussing the philosophy of EHR
According to philosopher Monroe Beardsley, aesthetic soundness depends on function within a particular context. This entails a marriage of form and function that spills over into anything from interior design to documentary filmmaking.
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Health Systems Spending Billions to Prepare for the “Last Battle”
Written by Dave Chase, CEO of Avado and was also published in Forbes.
Matthew Herper‘s May 7th cover story reports on the billionaires at Cerner and Epic created by the HITECH Act. This was the $19 billion portion of the stimulus bill that is providing billions of subsidies for the adoption of electronic health records.
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