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How Tinkering with the ACA Puts Health IT Investments at Risk

October 16, 2017

On February 27, 2017, President Trump said, ”Nobody knew healthcare could be so complicated.” Well, Mr. President it is complicated and yes, we all knew.

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Why Reform Legislation Won’t Solve Healthcare’s Ills

June 29, 2017

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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It’s Time to Stop and Refocus EHR Efforts

June 12, 2017

Healthcare’s uniqueness stems from its personal and emotional characteristics, and deep ties to our sense of humanity.

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Why HIT Tools Can Help Organizations Navigate the Challenges of Growth

April 14, 2017

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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3 Ways to Improve Return on IT Investment

March 22, 2017

he ACA evolved from tough negotiations among all healthcare stakeholders.

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Why the Pressure’s Rising for EMRs to Make and Impact

February 10, 2017

To understand our struggle to obtain value from EMRs, it is important to “show you the money.”

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Reconsider Documentation Vision for EHRs

December 21, 2016

“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.”

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Why Unified Notes Can Lessen Documentation Time

September 23, 2016

Does increased documentation improve outcomes? Does it reduce costs? There exists scant evidence that either of these are true.

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Personal Grid Facilitates Delivery of Complete Records

August 23, 2016

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.

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How MACRA Will Shift Providers’ IT Efforts

July 19, 2016

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.

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