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Healthcare Providers’ Confidence in the Ability of Various EHRs to Meet Proposed ‘Meaningful Use’ Criteria
January 7, 2010KLAS, a healthcare market research firm, recently released a report identifying healthcare providers’ confidence that specific ambulatory EMR software products will meet the Health IT Policy Committee’s proposed 2011 meaningful use standards. Vendors such as Epic Systems, NextGen Healthcare and athenahealth had the highest ...
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Telehealth: An Emerging Field in Health IT
December 22, 2009Telehealth is an emerging field that links patients and physicians across the country and beyond via video and health information technology. The telecommunications giant AT&T is investing heavily in this growing "telehealth" industry. For the past year, AT&T scientists have focused on the home health ...
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Federal EHR Incentive Program: Does it Offer a Foundation for Success?
December 14, 2009“A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.” ~David Brinkley With the goal for every American to have an Electronic Health Record (EHR) by the year 2014, the Federal government is throwing many ‘bricks’ ...
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New Branches on the Family Tree: Website to Track Generations of Family Medical Information Sprouts
November 24, 2009The traditional family tree represents branches of names from generations past. With Health IT, this image may sprout into something more complex to include family medical information. All too often, valuable family health information is not known and lost as part of a comprehensive ...
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