To best understand the failures of the bill, it is important to understand its shifting of incentives that were modified by ACA.
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Category: HDM
It’s Time to Stop and Refocus EHR Efforts
Healthcare’s uniqueness stems from its personal and emotional characteristics, and deep ties to our sense of humanity.
Continue readingWhy HIT Tools Can Help Organizations Navigate the Challenges of Growth
With the advent of EMRs and other sophisticated clinical and administrative HIT systems, each transferred patients comes with an exponentially larger set of patient data, much of it extremely valuable to receiving hospitals and their clinical staff trying to effectively and efficiently manage the limited resources available to treat these very complex patients.
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he ACA evolved from tough negotiations among all healthcare stakeholders.
Continue readingWhy the Pressure’s Rising for EMRs to Make and Impact
To understand our struggle to obtain value from EMRs, it is important to “show you the money.”
Continue readingReconsider Documentation Vision for EHRs
“Je n’ai fait celle-ci plus longue que parce que je n’ai pas eu le loisir de la faire plus courte.’ or roughly translated as ‘I have done it longer because I did not have the leisure to make it shorter.”
Continue readingWhy Unified Notes Can Lessen Documentation Time
Does increased documentation improve outcomes? Does it reduce costs? There exists scant evidence that either of these are true.
Continue readingPersonal Grid Facilitates Delivery of Complete Records
For more than a decade William Yasnoff, MD, advocated the use of a centralized model for storage of medical records in a health record bank.
Continue readingHow MACRA Will Shift Providers’ IT Efforts
For the MACRA program to be effective patient data from numerous points of care must be collected, yet ineffective interoperability presents a substantial barrier to producing the necessary reports.
Continue readingWhy the Explosion of IoMT Exposes Providers’ Security Risk
IoMT devices require robust security protocols embedded in the devices to protect their connected networks from infiltration by hackers.
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