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NewsBuild multiple levels of value into an EMR to produce ROI
Want a return on the sizable investment in an EMR? View the technology not as merely a replacement for paper charts, but as the basis for creating new capabilities within the organization, such as... Read more...
AMA trustee: Even relaxed meaningful-use standards will be tough for many docs
Just in case anyone was still wondering, getting to "meaningful use" of EHRs is by no means a slam dunk for many a physician. Even though CMS reduced the 2011-12 requirements from an earlier... Read more...
Incoming Siemens IT chief Glaser: Era of clinician resistance to EMR 'behind us'
Declaring the era of clinician resistance to IT "behind us," John Glaser, who is leaving his job as CIO of Partners HealthCare System in Boston to become CEO of Siemens Healthcare's Health Services... Read more...
Blumenthal calls meaningful use a 'one-time offer'
If you aren't going to achieve meaningful use this time around, don't expect the federal government to give you another shot at Medicare and Medicaid subsidies for EHRs. "[The] federal government is... Read more...
Knowledge Networks says half of docs now use EMRs
Hard to believe, but 52 percent of specialists and 50 percent of primary-care physicians claim to be using EMRs, up from 42 percent and 38 percent, respectively, two years earlier, a new survey... Read more...
Canadian doc embraces flexible EMR after shunning template-based system in U.S.
Is the design of the American health system to blame for low EMR adoption? That seems to be the implication in a Technology for Doctors story headlined, "How I learned to stop worrying and love my... Read more...
Do the math: Stanford docs could earn $44M in EMR incentives, while children's hospitals chase Medicaid dollars
As usual, there's a burgeoning trend in technology and people in Northern California smell the money. "The push to implement electronic healthcare records could mean hundreds of millions of dollars... Read more...
AAFP's Waldren calls meaningful use, quality reporting the foundations of payment reform
Primary-care practices, if you're thinking about not adopting an EMR, you could be putting yourselves in a very bad position for the inevitable future transition to a quality-based reimbursement... Read more...
Practices will lose value if they don't adopt EHRs, says HIT coordinator
Kudos to InformationWeek's Marianne Kolbasuk McGee for scoring a comprehensive interview with Dr. David Blumenthal, who's been hard to pin down since he took the job as national health IT coordinator... Read more...
Could Stark, ARRA subsidy programs be accelerating healthcare consolidation?
An effort as large as the federal EMR subsidy program was bound to have at least a few unintended consequences. One such negative effect seems to be the consolidation of care into large organizations... Read more...
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