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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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Elation Health and Surescripts® Partnership Supports Patient-Specific Prescription Cost Transparency for Primary Care Clinicians at Point of Care

Digital Health Global

Elena Christofides, an Elation EHR customer in Columbus, OH. Information in the EHR is an opportunity for important primary care conversations about cost expectations, affordability, and alternatives,” said Conan Fong, Chief Experience Officer and Co-Founder at Elation Health.

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Parsing eCW’s $155M payment to the government

Docnotes

EHR purchase / deployment / optimization is a multi-year initiative. You don’t want your patients / competitors / peers to know that your EHR doesn’t work as expected. It’s very hard to migrate from one system to another. You made a mistake. After Health IT Certification. The program isn’t perfect.

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Electronic Prescribing for Controlled Substances Set to Take Off

Healthcare IT Today

According to Dr. Colin Banas, chief medical officer at DrFirst , they initiated EPCS in 2010, partnering with the Massachusetts Department of Health. Integration with the EHR and electronic prescribing networks, such as Surescripts, allows prescriptions to be transmitted seamlessly to the pharmacy.

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Open Source Software in HealthTech: Hype today or Hope for the future?

Lloyd Price

In addition to these benefits, open source software is also becoming increasingly interoperable. Here are some examples of open source software that are being used in healthcare today: EHRs: There are a number of open source EHRs available, such as OpenMRS, OpenEHR, and Elyra. 2010: The CareDash platform is launched.

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HIStalk Interviews Helen Waters, EVP, Meditech

HIStalk Interviews

Expanse for us represents the development over several years of an EHR that we designed for the post-Meaningful Use era. I would say that by 2009 and 2010, we saw that gripping hold of the consumer landscape pretty extensively. The IPad came out in 2010. There are major established players in the EHR space.

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Electronic Health Records : History, hurdles and the promise of Blockchain

Lloyd Price

The main obstacle has always been interoperability, something that blockchain technology offers a solution to. The NHS was the frontrunner in this effort, attempting to create a national EHR system, that would enable easy and secure data exchange, which in turn would lead to better outcomes and improve the quality of patient care.