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BluByrd and DrChrono Deliver Seamless Staff and Patient Experiences for Source Healthcare

Healthcare IT Today

Finding an EHR Partner Dr. Davis began his search for an EHR solution before the start of the Meaningful Use incentives in 2009. Improved Patient Experience Through Interoperability Over the years, Dr. Davis has come to realize that when patient data is made more portable and sharable, patient experience improves.

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Regulators Need to Pay More Attention to Long-term and Nursing Care

Healthcare IT Today

But these facilities are afterthoughts in our health care system, and were excluded in particular from the huge digitization of health care triggered in the United States by the 2009 HITECH act and 2010 Affordable Care Act. The next step would be to achieve real interoperability in health records, a still elusive goal.

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The Future of Healthcare: Integrated Data for Integrated Care

Healthcare IT Today

The siloed nature of such data repositories can be attributed to various factors, including using different EHR systems, varying data capture standards, and a historical lack of emphasis on system interoperability. The solution to these challenges lies in the adoption of interoperable data systems.

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Health Care Data Wars: Stretching the Regulations on Information Blocking and The New Burdens of AI

Healthcare IT Today

One of the key goals of health care reform, going back to HIPAA in 1996 and particularly the HITECH act of 2009, is to allow the free flow of patient data in a secure and privacy-preserving way. The government has placed heavy expectations for data interoperability on a sagging technical foundation. Progress has been slow.

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What Duplicate Patient Notes Reveal About Health Care and Its Records

Healthcare IT Today

Most hospitals are not set up share their records; interoperability is still limited. Several respondents say that government regulations from the Meaningful Use era, starting in 2009, make it hard to comply without loading each note down with duplicate information. Follow the money.

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