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NewsPhysicians in sight of retirement face a tough choice about EMR adoption
Medicare penalties for not adopting EMRs kick in starting in 2015, and are scheduled to reach 5 percent by 2019 for the true holdouts. But what of the many physicians within five to eight years of... Read more...
Vendor Practice Fusion: Consumers want fast access to their medical records
Maybe consumers are more savvy about health information than many pundits give them credit for. Of all their concerns about medical records, the most prevalent is being able to access their own... 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...
AAFP official tells Congress to watch how CMS administers 'meaningful use'
If history is any guide, a lot of physicians will question whether taking the steps to achieve "meaningful use" of EMRs are worth it because CMS has a poor track record running other incentive... Read more...
Survey: Providers confused about ambulatory EHR certification
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology has made it clear that it wants multiple EHR certification bodies, but that message apparently has not made it out to many... Read more...
SPOTLIGHT: Physician practices struggle with choosing, implementing EHRs, MGMA says
Not surprisingly, selecting and implementing EHRs has moved into the top three daily challenges of running a physician practice, according to a newly released survey from the Medical Group Management... 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...
There's plenty of time to install a client-server EMR, but MU rules remain ambiguous
Given the relatively short timeline for achieving "meaningful use" of EMRs, some have suggested that software-as-a-service is the only way to go for physician practices that haven't started... Read more...
SPOTLIGHT: Should Microsoft acquire an established EHR vendor?
Despite its many overtures to the healthcare market, Microsoft still doesn't offer a full-fledged EHR. Data aggregator Amalga, acquired in 2006, comes closest, but it and the PHR platform HealthVault... Read more...
Report: EMRs a 'double-edged sword' for physician communication
While EMRs certainly do improve physician-patient communication in person, online and over the phone, systems also can detract from the relationship between doctor and patient, according to a report... Read more...
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