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Electronic Health Records (EHRs)
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E-prescribing enjoying steady growth
More than one in two office-based physicians used electronic prescribing in 2011, up from one in 10 just three years ago, according to the recently released Surescripts 2011 National Progress Report....
Public hospital association assails MU Stage 2 proposal
Nearly all (97 percent) of NAPH members plan to participate in both the Medicare and the Medicaid electronic health record incentive programs--well above the 74 percent of all hospitals that intend to participate. But NAPH members are more likely than other hospitals to be unable to meet the Meaningful Use criteria until fiscal year 2013, according to the report.
Telemedicine, mHealth will connect with EHRs when providers are motivated
In a discussion at the recent American Telemedicine Association (ATA) conference, panelists bewailed the absence of electronic health record vendors from the meeting, according to a post in NHIN ...
ONC Health IT Dashboard offers rich data on EHR adoption campaign
A new "Health IT Dashboard" from the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT presents a wealth of data about the national EHR adoption campaign in both graphic and tabular form. Included in
Digging into docs' love-hate relationship with EHRs
If you ask a doctor what she hates about electronic health records, you're liable to get an earful. But it turns out that docs have something to say when it comes to what they love about EHRs, too.
EHRs increase malpractice risk
EHRs can wreak havoc on a practitioner's clinical documentation of patient care, exposing the provider to malpractice claims, warns HIT author Ron Sterling, in an article posted on hitechanswers.net.
'Top 100 hospitals' ahead of peers in health IT
A new report from HIMSS Analytics, the research arm of the Healthcare Information Management and Systems Society (HIMSS), shows that the top 100 hospitals in Reuters' annual survey for 2009 and 2010
Weakening patient role in MU would be a 'missed opportunity'
The public and vendors of consumer healthcare applications should urge the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) to retain the patient engagement provisions of the Meaningful Use
States wrestle with prescription data to curb abuse
Access to drug prescription databases could curb abuse of pain pills, says a Colorado payer--but the state's pharmacy board is having none of it. Rocky Mountain Health Plans, along with Colorado
Joint iEHR to use 3M 'Data Dictionary' terminology
The Department of Defense (DoD) and the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) are planning to use 3M's Health Data Dictionary (HDD) to normalize clinical terminology in their joint iEHR system ,
