eClinicalWorks®, a leading ambulatory EHR provider has announced free hospital interoperability of Clinical Document Architecture (CDA) data using a query-based exchange with Cerner, Epic, McKesson, Meditech and Siemens, and is extending this integration to all hospital systems in the industry. Available now to customers, this seamless data transfer between systems facilitates coordination of care between inpatient and ambulatory settings to enable complete, accurate and relevant information at
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eClinicalWorks Unveils Next-Gen Ambulatory EHR with Focus on Interoperability
eClinicalWorks®, a leading ambulatory EHR provider, today unveiled their next generation EHR solution, eClinicalWorks 10e, a new cloud services platform. During his keynote speech this morning at eClinicalWorks National Conference in Nashville, CEO Girish Navani stressed the importance of a building a more cloud-centric, hardware agnostic and intuitive UI to reflect the next generation of healthcare delivery.
“10e is a game changer for this industry,” said Girish Navani, CEO and
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Georgia Connects With Alabama to Support Health Information Exchange
Georgia Health Information Network (GaHIN), Georgia's statewide health information exchange (HIE), and Alabama's One Health Record® today announced the success of an electronic connection between the two networks. This is the second state-to-state health information exchange (HIE) connection for GaHIN, which connected with the South Carolina HIE in 2014, and is one of only a few interstate connections in the nation.
"Healthcare doesn't stop at the state line, so we need to ensure that
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Physician Practice Guide to Accurate EHR Software Pricing
The expected benefits of any EHR systems are to improve patient care, lower administrative costs and improve billings and collections. The primary measures of effectiveness are:
- The claims collection rate;
- The number of patient visits per day;
- The amount of time spent managing faxes and paper charts and
- The direct costs of paper charts (cost of materials, storage, destruction etc.).
EHR system costs will vary widely and depend primarily on the size of the physician
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Cerner Unveils HL7 FHIR-based API to Integrate EHR Data with 3rd-Party Apps
Cerner, a global leader in health care technology, has unveiled a production version of HL7’s FHIR standard that is being tested in the Cerner Millennium electronic health record (EHR).
“This next-generation standards framework enables health care organizations to utilize Cerner’s open platform, which is designed to enable third-party innovators to advance care delivery and improve interoperability capabilities with other FHIR-compliant EHR systems,” said Dr. David McCallie, senior vice
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CMS Issues Meaningful Use Final Rule: Key Facts to Know
After facing severe criticism from members of Congress, professional medical organizations and providers pushing to delay the final rules for Meaningful Use Stage 3. On Tuesday, The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) released the final rule for the Meaningful Use program with hopes to simplify requirements and add new flexibilities for providers.
CMS reviewed and considered more than 2,500 comments
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4 Challenges of Establishing EHR Interoperability
By the year 2024, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services wants interoperability between disparate electronic health records systems (EHRs) to be a common capability. This would allow patient data to be shared among authorized practitioners more seamlessly. But how do patients feel about this?
According to a recent survey conducted by Software Advice, 46 percent of patients want their doctors to directly exchange the health records, and fewer (21 percent) favor in-person delivery.
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Is Meaningful Use a Roadblock to Achieving Interoperability?
This week, a study published by the Government Accountability Office (GAO), known as the “Congressional Watchdog,” revealed the Meaningful Use program is a roadblock to achieving EHR interoperability. Conducted at the request of congressional leaders, the GAO interviewed 18 groups outside of the federal government that specialize in EHRs and are working to achieve EHR interoperability.
GAO asked the representatives of these groups to share their perspectives of the meaningful use” program.
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Sen. Alexandar: 5 Reasons to Delay Meaningful Use Stage 3 Rulemaking
Editor's Note: Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) gives administration officials five reasons to take more time before making final the Meaningful Use Stage 3 rule of the federal government’s program to require doctors and hospitals to create EHR systems.
Over the last 5 years, the taxpayers have spent $30 billion to encourage doctors and hospitals to adopt electronic health records systems. The whole purpose of this program is to benefit patients, so that they and their health care providers
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Congressional Leaders Urge Admin to Delay Meaningful Use Stage 3 Rulemaking
On Tuesday, congressional leaders continued to urge the Obama administration to immediately adopt Meaningful Use Stage 2 modifications and delay final rulemaking for Meaningful Use Stage 3 no sooner than January 1, 2017. The call from U.S. Sens. John Thune (R-S.D.) and Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) comes as a bipartisan group of 96 Republicans and 20 Democrats in the House of Representatives in a separate letter to the administration urged it to “pause” the process of making stage three
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